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A Santal Student Still Interested

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 29, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 32.

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A Santal Student Still Interested

By W. A. Barlow

A SHORT time ago I received a post card from one of our old boarding school students, a Santal who made good progress while in our school, both at Simultala and at Babumohal. He was anxious to be baptized and work as a teacher in our mission, but the influence of his heathen wife and family caused him to put it off.
He now writes to me for literature. He has started a school in the tea gardens in Darjeeling, northern India, and invites me to visit him. I have posted two parcels of our literature to this young man, with some Santali schoolbooks and hymn books, which we compiled and had printed at our Watchman Press when it was at Karmatar, under the direction of our beloved Brother J. C. Little, now asleep in Christ.
There are thousands of Santali immigrants around Darjeeling, working in the tea gardens, and it may be God is calling us there through one of our old schoolboys, to give the closing message to these precious souls who are sitting in darkness and the shadow of death. Pray, brethren, for these aboriginal tribes of India. W. A. BARLOW.