p. 13 | New Mission Home for India by J. L. SHAW

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 16, 1912

New Mission Home for India

By J. L. SHAW

J. L. SHAW

I AM sending a photograph of a property which we have just purchased at Lucknow for the India Union Mission offices and the Watchman Press. We have been granted $10,000 from the $300,000 Fund with which to purchase a property and fit up these offices, including the Watchman Press. The building as it stands, with about one acre of land, has cost us $7,000. We are putting on an addition to provide for our publishing work (41 by 72 feet), which will cost us $2,000 more. We shall then have ground space equaling 92 by 72 feet.

It will be a great advantage to have this place of our own. We have been doing our publishing work ever since it began in India in small quarters unsuitable for our purpose. Our work has been hindered by the inconvenience of the small rooms, with low ceilings, which we now occupy. This situation has been trying upon the workers.

But God has spared them, and has provided a substantial building with high ceilings to protect us against the intense heat of Lucknow, and with money to make necessary additions. We feel like rendering unto God our heartfelt thanks for what he has given. And we surely appreciate the liberality of our dear people in America who have been doing their part in raising the $300,000 Fund. This money means more to our work in foreign fields than our people at home can fully realize. It is giving permanency to our work in mission fields by building homes for our missionaries where they can live and labor for souls, furnishing facilities with which to carry on schools, providing printing plants to publish the message, and dispensaries for the treatment of the sick.

We are positive God’s hand is in the raising of the $300,000 Fund. It is giving hope and courage to many care-worn missionaries, who, in unsuitable homes and in unfavorable climates, with poor and meager facilities, have been laboring earnestly to advance the message. We still need machinery, which will call for three or four times as much money as we have in hand, but God knows all about that, and he will surely provide for our needs. We asked for only $10,000, and the Mission Board gave us all we asked for, but we thought of other parts of this field and of other fields, and tried to make our request as small as possible.

Our building has a commanding appearance, is situated on one of the best roads in Lucknow, and will reflect credit to our mission. It is in a healthful location, and is not far from post and telegraph offices and the railway station.

INDIA UNION MISSION OFFICE AND WATCHMAN PRESS

It is a great relief to me to get the negotiations for this property finished. There is endless red tape in India, and everything moves slowly. I am having the deed registered to-day. When this is done, we expect to return to Mussoorie after four and one-half months itinerating on the plains of India. I am glad to say God has given us good health this winter. We have been able to accomplish even more than we had expected, and for this we are thankful.