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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 8, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 6.

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British Malaya

By G. F. JONES

G. F. JONES
A LITTLE over a month ago I returned from a trip up the Malay Peninsula, having visited several important places of interest. Since the new railway has been constructed through the state of Johore, we are able to take train from Singapore to Penang, a distance of about six hundred miles, crossing by railway steamers the narrow strait between the island of Singapore and the mainland, also the strait between the mainland at Province Wellesley and the island of Penang. This railway will soon be extended through to Siam and Burma.
The railway through the Malay states passes through dense jungles, the home of the tiger and other wild animals of the peninsula. Here also, until this modern intrusion of the white man, the wild people of the jungle have roamed undisturbed; but now they have been obliged to retreat farther and farther away in order to still follow their nomadic life. Being of an extremely shy nature, they prefer the retirement of the jungle among the wild beasts to modern life and customs. They are called Sakey, and it is supposed that there are about twenty thousand of them scattered through the peninsula. From among these strange, wild people we are to find some who will walk in the full light of the third angel's message,—chosen ones who will sing the song of Moses and the Lamb. Incomprehensible is the power of our gospel message, that can quickly transform the lowest species of the human race so that they may have a place among the highest of the redeemed.
As our train whirls along through many miles of jungle land, it also passes through sections where there are thou-