India by H. C. MENKEL

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 6, 1908

India

By H. C. MENKEL

CALCUTTA.—We are pleased to read the reports of the recent camp-meetings in the home land, and see the interest being taken in helping the foreign work by raising means to support it. You may be sure that your voting surplus tithe to foreign mission work brings joy to the hearts of those who are laboring to bring this message to the people of these foreign lands. The people are making the best investment of their means that it is possible to make.

Last week I returned from a trip to the north, visiting Mussoorie, where our Mountain Rest Home is located. It has an ideal climate, equal to Colorado. This is the place where our sanitarium work will be located in the near future.

You will be pleased to hear that the interest among the native Christians is increasing in a marked manner. Several native preachers and workers are taking their stand with us. They have the language and the knowledge of how to reach the people. God is truly setting his hand to the work. The secret of successful work in these fields is in keeping close to the throne of prayer, and then improving every opportunity.

We have an advantage in being vegetarians, which brings us in contact with certain classes that otherwise we could not help. Our health principles are truly entering wedges in these countries. We have doors opened to us for lectures on these subjects, which make friends for our work.

We have all India and Burma before us as a field. No other institutions in these vast countries stand for these same principles. Compare this work with the home land, and think what a work and what opportunities lie before this people.

We are much in need of a good lady nurse who understands surgical preparations. I hope some one will feel impressed to come and help us.

We have much to be thankful for, as we are feeling quite well, considering what we have passed through. The heat in Calcutta is very great, and one is quite fagged out after a year of it.

The Rest Home at Mussoorie will prove a blessing to many a worn worker from the plains, and will prevent many breakdowns.

Will not those who have strong faith, who have learned how to pray and plead with God, take our work before God frequently? I have much confidence in the results which follow earnest prayer. H. C. MENKEL.