The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

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SOUTH AFRICAN MISSION

At the General Conference held in Battle Creek in 1886, the question was considered of opening a mission in South Africa. As action was taken favoring the undertaking, with the opening summer of 1887 an effort was made to establish the work in that distant land, where a few, who had already begun to observe the Sabbath, were calling for laborers. GSAM 424.2