DELLA BURROWAY by Della Burroway

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 14, 1909

DELLA BURROWAY

By Della Burroway

India

I HAVE started a school among the Santals, with Matta in charge. We have twenty-eight boys attending, and shall have a few more. They are very poor, so I am having them pay one anna each for the first book, other schools charge two annas. When they take up the second book, we shall increase the tuition.

They are going to build a schoolhouse, and I wish you could have seen their enthusiasm last Friday. The head man wanted us to come and say what each parent must do to have a school. So Prova and I went and met all the fathers. We drew up a paper, and took the names of all, telling them that each one was to bring so much wood and straw, and that all were to come together this week and build the house. It really meant as much to them as building our sanitarium will to us. We hope that by the time our building is ready, our Bengali Brother Dey will be here to open up school work. One aged brother and his wife are requesting baptism, and I think they are about ready for it; for they are living up to the light they have received.