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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 14, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 7.

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India

By A. G. Watson

THE Lord helped me, in company with Brother Miller, to make an enjoyable trip to Babolmohal, one afternoon, and at noontide the following day three men and a woman—all Santals—were baptized in the river by Brother Miller, in the presence of a representative gathering of heathen Santals from the adjoining villages. The candidates had been prepared by Brother Barlow.
On the twenty-eighth of October the family went to Koro, a village some four miles distant from Karmatar. The road is a good one, and the bullock-cart ride out there seemed to be enjoyed by both the older and younger members. We camped in a pleasant grove, a few minutes' walk from the village.
After dinner a few of us visited the village, and spoke to a small congregation, and read to them from the Holy Scriptures. At the close of the meeting a goodly number of Bengali tracts were left among the villagers as silent witnesses for Jesus. The people appeared grateful for the visit, as they turned out quickly from their cottages when the evening hymn was being sung, listened attentively to the talk and reading, and eagerly accepted the literature that was distributed among them.
On the last day at Karmatar a man saluted me on the road opposite the schoolhouse. I returned his greeting, and as he seemed inclined to improve the acquaintanceship, I began to tell him of the love of God in sending his Son to die for us that we may be saved. “I was present,” he said, “when you people spoke the other day in the village of Pindaree. Your words pricked me.” (Pindaree is two miles from Karmatar; we had visited it the evening previous to our excursion to Koro.) The brother is a fisherman by profession. May the Lord make him a fisher of men.
I was glad of the help received from the older boys of the school in the village work. Their singing almost seemed essential to the services. The Lord bless them, and the work and workers in Karmatar and surrounding villages!
A. G. WATSON.