Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers - Ellen G. White

eferred to here were held quite frequently in the
late 1880's and early 1890's, sometimes extending
over quite a period of time. Reference on page 401
indicates that such institutes were quite necessary
following the General Conference of 1888, that our
workers might be properly instructed and
indoctrinated in those truths which they were
presenting to the people.
Page 197. Receiving gifts from gentiles or
heathen: see also pages 202, 203. In the latter part
of 1893, Elder A. T. Robinson, leading out in the
work of the church in South Africa and wishing to
secure land for the establishment of a mission
among the natives, arranged for an interview with
Cecil Rhodes, premier of Cape Colony and head of
the British South African company operating in
Mashonaland. Rhodes was especially pleased with
the plan outlined for operating a mission among the
natives of that country, and handed to Elder
Robinson a sealed letter addressed to Dr. Jemison,
secretary of the company, to be given to him in
Bulawayo. The brethren went to Bulawayo
expecting to purchase land, and did not know until
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