Help for the Eighty Million Unenlightened in India
By S. N. HASKELL
We have reached a most wonderful period in the history of the third angel’s message. From a small beginning in the eastern part of the United States, this Sabbath truth, as proclaimed in the sealing message, has nearly if not quite encircled the earth. Not only from the United States, but from Australia, England, Germany, and other strong centers, missionaries are now being sent forth to the ends of the earth. Germany has established missions in darkened Africa, Australia in the islands of the sea, England in her colonies, while in the United States, which God has honored with the beginning of this most glorious work, a burden still rests of sending missionaries to open up new fields and plant the truth in the regions beyond. While this great and glorious work is going on, God highly honors every believer in this message who takes a part in extending the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. Onward is our watchword, until everywhere voices will be heard saying, “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” There is one class of people in a country where the truth has had a small beginning that have not one single missionary. That people number more than all the inhabitants of the United States, while the number of square miles of their territory is about the same as the State of Texas. These are the Hindustani-speaking people of India. There are eighty millions of them, and not one worker among them to tell them the Lord is soon coming. Brother and Sister Burgess have both of them mastered the Hindustani language, but are now in this country on account of his impaired health. Sister Burgess has been in India nine years. Her health was good there. They are now in the South, and his health is much improved through the blessing of God. They wish to return early this coming winter to the field of their choice and desire. As the foreign mission funds are so low, they wish to earn money by canvassing to pay their return passage, and open a mission among the Hindustani-speaking people. We have arranged to furnish them twenty thousand copies of the next special number of the Bible Training School, issued the last of this month. The sale of these papers will furnish the necessary funds to open up the work in this new field. As their time is short in which to sell these papers, we ask our brethren to co-operate with them in this work, by paying the retail price (10 cents per copy) for the papers, and selling them to their neighbors and friends. In this way our people in America will work for India as really as if they were active missionaries in India. We have gotten up several special editions of the Bible Training School, which sell for ten cents a copy. Already this year one special edition of fifty-five thousand has been issued, nearly all of which have been sold. We give Brother and Sister Burgess the profit on twenty thousand copies of this next special edition, and our printers give their labor. So those of our friends who wish to co-operate can take any number they please, from ten copies to a thousand. Then by selling these papers they will receive their money back again. In this way those who can not sell a large book but can sell a ten-cent paper, will have the privilege of working to establish the truth of the message in an entirely new field. What is done in this direction must be done quickly, for Brother and Sister Burgess hope to start for India in October. We expect to have the special Bible Training School ready by August 25. Orders are already coming in, and many encouraging words. Send in your orders at once. Write the address very plainly, so there will be no delay in filling orders. We wish to co-operate with Brother and Sister Burgess and help them return to open up this work among the eighty million people, as they have already learned their language, and are acquainted with their ways and habits. Orders can be sent to the Bible Training School, South Lancaster, Mass., or to Brother and Sister Burgess direct, 914 Belmont Ave., Nashville, Tenn.