In East Bengal

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Dec 15, 1910

FROM Brother A. G. Watson, who was Brother J. C. Little's traveling companion and fellow sufferer in the evangelistic tour which led to the latter's death in the jungle country of East Bengal, we have received a letter, from which we quote as follows:—

“The only reason I can assign for the cutting short of his earthly career and the prolongation of mine, is that he was prepared for the citizenship of the New Jerusalem, while I was not. By his virtuous life, his work had been accomplished, his testimony for the Master given.

“The message is gaining adherents in the provinces of East Bengal and Assam. Some among the Hindus have just recently written me that they feel we have the truth regarding the Sabbath, and ask that we open a meeting-hall among them, to which they may come and investigate our points of faith. In places where our laborers have not entered, little bands of interested ones have written that they are obeying, and plead that we visit them and take their oversight. As I have attempted prayerfully to study this great province, with its twenty-nine districts and almost thirty-five million souls, the idea has taken hold of my mind that during the next two years there ought to be at least six European missionary families in the province, in which there are at present only some seventy thousand Christians.

“I can not but feel that Brother Little's death, while laboring in this territory, is the signal for an advance.”