SUPPORT FROM WHAKATANE FOR TIMBUKTU

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 61, 26 June 1950, Page 5

SUPPORT FROM WHAKATANE FOR TIMBUKTU

A new up-to-date mission hospital in darkest Africa will be provided through one united Sabbath School offering of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. On Saturday, Sab .rath Schools in the Whakatane district and those operating in over languages gave to the project, stated Pastor M. C Eland, Adventist minister at Whakatane yesterday. The hospital is to be located in the Northern Camerons, as an extension of Seventh Day Adventist medical mission work in French West Africa and French Eauatorial Africa.

During the past three months all offerings from the Sabbath Schools throughout the world have also gone to this mission field, to further the work of the gospel and to relieve and cure the diseases so rife there. This mission field extends from Senegal on the West Coast to the dark recesses of the premeval forests. Nearly half the size of Australia and containing some 23,000,000 pagans and Moslems, it includes three-fifths of the great Saraha Desert, with Timbuktu and other storied cities.

Superstition and heathen customs have caused untold bloodshed and strife and in large areas people live in continual fear. Insects are a constant menace to life, and wild beasts still claim their victims. The climate and native living conditions cause all tropical diseases to spread rapidly in this forbidding territory. It is to help the inhabitants of this dark land that Whakatane people subscribed on Saturday.