p. 17 | India by W. W. Miller

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Dec 7, 1905

India

By W. W. Miller

CALCUTTA.—Many of our people wonder if those who go to these difficult fields are happy, or if they become homesick and discouraged. We speak for ourselves only. From the day that we decided to come to India until this present writing, we have been of good courage, and just as well contented as we ever were at home. To know that the Lord is with you, is more than anything else in this world, I care not how dear it may be. Since coming here the Lord has blessed us manifold more than we deserve.

India needs more workers and prayers from our people at home. These poor heathen know not God as he is revealed in the Word, therefore they must learn his character through his servants. Almost every day they come to our home to learn about the truth. A man was sent from East Bengal, begging us to come there and start our work. A village of eight thousand inhabitants has offered to deed us land free of cost, and to help erect a building, if we will start a girls' school. We told them plainly who we were, and asked them what they would think if their children became Christians. They said that rested with the child. A native teacher told us that there were five hundred who believe in the Sabbath, and would keep it if they had proper instruction. But where are the instructors? and where is the means to build these schools?

We pray that this message, which has bound us all together in Christian fellowship, may soon finish its work, and that we may all triumph with it. W. W. MILLER.