EDUCATION Department, Salisbury, Rhodesia, 21st November 1924. Dear Mr Cameron,—I write to express to you and to the Assembly of the Free Presbyterian Church my very sincere sympathy in the loss which your Church and the inguanya Mission have sustained in the lamentable death of the Rev. J. B. Radasi.
The details of the sad occurrence will, no doubt, have reached you, so I need not refer to them.
I do, however, wish to say that, although it is now a good many years since I last saw Mr Radasi, I have always followed his work with much interest, and have known him to be steadfast, loyal and devoted, without any trace of arrogance though living in surroundings which might easily have made even an upright and God-fearing man somewhat arrogant.
It seems a strange coincidence that the accident should have happened at a time when, as I understand, a fellow worker from Scotland was about to arrive at the Mission. I am thankful that this is the case, and that consequently the work is likely to suffer less from Mr Radasi’s removal than it would otherwise have done.
I know that his example was a pure one and am persuaded that his influence will remain among the people whom he served so long and so faithfully.
With very kind regards and much sympathy to your Church in its hour of mourning.—Believe me, yours faithfully, L. M. Foggin (Director of Education in Southern Rhodesia).