To and Fro in India by C. E. Weaks

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

To and Fro in India

By C. E. Weaks

OUR colporteurs have gone to the farthest corners of India and Burma, extending their labors into Assam, Upper Burma, near the Chinese frontier, Kashmir, and even into Baluchistan. A short time ago a worker wrote: “I have just sold a ‘Heralds of the Morning’ to the son of a priest who carries the book with him into Persia next month.” Another letter contains the sentence: “I am now in the heart of the Nambor forest close beside the head-hunting Nagas. When you read this, I shall doubtless be at Dibrugarh, Assam, the terminus of the railway and head of steamer navigation of the Brahmaputra.” While this work is accomplished by hardships and risks, the colporteur pushes on, happy in his service.

We are now publishing seven regular journals in India, two in English and five in the vernaculars, which are sounding out the message of Christ’s soon return. Our Indian colporteur work is being organized, and the workers are meeting with encouraging success. A little more than a year ago we held our first colporteurs’ institute for our Indian brethren. Since that time, four more have been held. Men with very limited education, some of whom have never been more than a few miles from their native villages, are being trained and are becoming effective agents for God. The accompanying illustration shows a group of these workers, recently together in an institute, who are carrying the truth to the Tamil people of south India.

C. E. WEAKS.

Lucknow.