A Little Missionary of South India by Mrs. G. G. Lowry

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

A Little Missionary of South India

By Mrs. G. G. Lowry

Embroidery workers in our girls’ school.

Boarding-school at Nazareth, south India.

Soon after we came to India, we met a little boy about eleven years of age who is exceptionally bright in many ways, and who was very anxious to know our reasons for believing and teaching the Bible. We talked with him upon different points of truth, and he became much interested. After a few days he was convinced that we have the truth, but knowing what it would mean to him (his elder brother had accepted this message and undergone some very severe trials), he endeavored to keep all this from his parents.

He asked us for a tract, which we gladly gave him, with some copies of the Youth's Instructor. He took these to the school and read them to his classmates. His father, who is head master of the school, seeing him reading the Scriptures to the boys, said, “That is good, my son, tell them about the Bible,” and passed on. A few days later the boy was reading the tract alone, when his father caught him and took it away from him, telling him he could not read it nor come to see us any more. That night the father, supposing all the boys were asleep, took the tract and read it through before stopping. But this boy was watching him all the time. The boy is now permitted to visit us, and says as soon as he is a little older he is going to join our mission.

In speaking to us concerning the work that he is doing, he said: “In the school of five hundred boys to which I go, all are Hindus and Mohammedans except twenty. Whenever our teacher leaves the room, I take the opportunity to talk to the boys about ‘the Christ’ and ‘the Christianity.’ They sometimes make fun of me, but I don’t care for that, because the Christianity is the best religion. One very pious Mohammedan boy, who has always laughed at the Christianity, said to me, just before the examination came, ‘You please pray to the Christ that I may pass in the examination.’ I give the boys papers on the Christianity to read, and about twenty say that when they are older they will accept the Christ.” The boy’s mother came to see me, and says she will come often.

MRS. G. G. LOWRY.

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