A Garo Man Learns to Read
A MEDICAL missionary in Tura, Assam, writes of an interesting case, which is one of the encouraging signs to the missionaries who toil alone among the heathen: A young married man came to the office one market morning, and said he wanted to learn to read. There never had been a teacher in his village, but the man bought a little primer, and after asking a few questions, went on. The next week he came back, and read half of the letters, and asked more questions, and went away. He has worked in this way from week to week, and now reads any Garo printed in the English character, almost anything in the Bengali, as well, and has made a start on the English. Although still a heathen in name, the man has been preaching to his villagers; and when the missionary made his first visit to his home, he found many evidences of the working of the Spirit.