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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 10, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 32.

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Item of Experience

By GEORGIA A. BURGESS

SOME time ago I was distributing tracts on the coming of the Lord in the large railway station in Calcutta, where thousands from all parts of India are coming and going every day. As I stood there, a man came up and said to me in the Hindustani language, “Memsahib, what are those papers you are giving away?” When I told him of the good news in the tracts of the soon-coming Saviour, he said, “Give me one, too.” But I was compelled to say to him, “I am sorry, brother, but I have nothing in your language.” I have never forgotten the disappointed look on his face as he said to me, “Memsahib, don’t you know that there are millions and millions of people in this country who know only my language? What are you going to do for them?”
These words have rung in my ears, again and again. What are we going to do for the eighty million Hindustani-speaking people of India who have as yet heard nothing of the message that must go to every tongue and people? “How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent?”
As the Lord has opened a way by which a work may be started among these waiting millions, we trust that a desire may be awakened in the hearts of many of our people to co-operate in it, and thus share in the blessing of which Job speaks: “The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.” GEORGIA A. BURGESS.