AFRICAN MISSIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 259, 1 November 1932, Page 5

AFRICAN MISSIONS.

NEW RETURNS

CONGREGATION OF 4000 NATIVES.

Dr A A. Huse, who left New Zealand as a medical student nearly eleven years ao-o, returned by the Maunganui to-day, and intends to practise hie profession either in Taranaki or Auckland. He is a native of Taranaki, and for five years after he left the Dominion he was in the United States. For the last five years he has been attached to the Seventh Day Adventist Mission in tropical Africa. He did post-graduate work in Europe during the last six months.

Dr. Huse spoke of the work of the mission. In one place there had been a congregation of 4000 natives, all of whom had embraced the religion of the mission. He had had to attend to as many as 130 patients in one day, and carry out jinany operations for goitre, tonsils and other diseases. "The work is opening up the country," he said. "It gives the natives confidence in the Europeans." Schools were organised, and manual work taught as well as general knowledge. Dr. Huse said the Roman Catholic mission work was first, in importance in Africa. Then followed the Dutch Reformed Church, which was the native church in Africa. The Seventh Day Adventists were third.