What a Heathen Said by Edward D. Thomas

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

A GROUP OF EIGHTEEN BAPTIZED AT ONE TIME,
TINNEVELLI, SOUTH INDIA — A GROUP OF EIGHTEEN BAPTIZED AT ONE TIME, TINNEVELLI, SOUTH INDIA

What a Heathen Said

By Edward D. Thomas

Every night I had been holding lectures on Bible truth in our mission schoolhouse, heathen as well as Christians attending. Our gardener — a worshiper of idols from childhood — had been coming.

“Friend,” I said to him one evening, “what do you think of all you have heard?”

“Sir,” he said, “I have never heard this kind of gospel before. How foolish I have been all these days to worship dumb idols! And I am ashamed to think of the foolish ideas I have had of the dead. I have spent time and money to satisfy the dead and to keep them from doing us injury. Sir, I wish that you would teach me more of this good Saviour and his gospel.”

The poor man’s voice rang with a longing to find this Saviour as his own.

“Sir,” he again appealed, “my little girl should study this way of salvation.”

Now he is sending her to our school. There are multitudes in India waiting for the light.

EDWARD D. THOMAS.

Nazareth, Tinnevelli.