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New School Among the Garhwals of the Hills

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 4, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 44.

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New School Among the Garhwals of the Hills

By G. A. Burgess

The place is about twenty-five miles from the railway terminus, reached by ekka and pony. It is in the heart of the mountains, about seven thousand feet high. On every side are forests of pine trees, making the air fragrant with their odor.
There are villages all around, and the people seem most happy that we came among them. Scarcely a day passes but some one brings us in an offering of some kind from his poverty. They will not take a penny for anything they bring. I am sure the Lord keeps a record of it all, and will repay them.
They say they do not want merely a school to teach their young men, to fit them for government positions, but they want one to dispel the darkness from their minds—“an asmani [heavenly] school,” as they call it.
G. A. Burgess.