Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1915 — Great Growth In a Hard Field. [ARTICLE]

Great Growth In a Hard Field.

The Swedish mission In Abyssinia counted in 1897 five stations, 300 converts, 20 native Evangelists, and 90 pupils in one mission school. Today there are ten stations, 2,000 converts, 75 native Evangelista, tea native school teachers, 1,306 pupils in five boarding schools and fifty day schools in the villages. There Is a hospital in full operation and a press which Is printing in Ethiopian, Amaric, Tigrigna, Tigre, Cunama, Galla and Swahili. Two hundred hymns have been translated Into the Hgrigna tongue and are used In the mission schools.