A Book Leads to Faith in South India
IN the sowing of gospel seed beside all waters, some seed find fertile soil. Brother E. D. Thomas, in South India, relates that one hot day beneath the equatorial sun, an elderly gentleman came into their mission compound at Nazareth. The traveler had a book which he handed Brother Thomas, inquiring whether the Seventh-day Adventists published it. On receiving an affirmative reply, his joy was manifestly great. He said: “I have come walking such a long distance [fifty miles] to see the faces of the people who believe in such a grand truth as is revealed by this booklet, and to get acquainted with them. This book has been my spiritual meat in my old days. I have spent hours upon hours under the banyan tree near my house, reading and studying it.” He remained a few days at the mission and returned a firm believer in the truths of the Sabbath and the near coming of Jesus. He took a quantity of literature with him.