The Missionary by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 3, 1882

The Missionary.

By Editor

An Interesting Visit.

Eld. Albert Norton, who has labored for six years in India as an independent missionary, was with us, Sabbath, July 15. He first learned of S. D. Adventists by receiving, while in India, from the Secretary of our General T. and M. Society, a copy of a paper with an accompanying communication. Being in this country, and about to return to India, he came here to learn more about us and our work.

Sabbath afternoon he spoke in the tabernacle, giving an account of some of his experiences in the missionary field, and the remarkable providences with which he has often been favored in his work, and setting forth the condition of the many millions of India who are hungering for the word of life. About half the population of the globe is concentrated into a comparatively small territory composed of India, China, and the immediately adjacent countries. His remarks were replete with interest and very instructive. True Christian zeal is evidently the ruling motive in his work. A liberal supply of publications on the different points of our faith was furnished him, with the assurance on his part that they would be faithfully examined.

He has secured a company of eight to engage with him in the missionary work; and they expect to sail from New York, Sept. 9. He is very solicitous that some of our people should enter that field, where there are multitudes enough who have not heard the word of life, and fields broad enough in which to work, to avoid all collision with others. He has no pledged support from any denomination or individuals, but trusts to the providence of God to sustain him, which it has thus far remarkably done. So much interest was aroused in the matter that a few friends contributed to the amount of $11.30 to form the nucleus of a fund to send the living preacher to the millions of India.—Review and Herald.