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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 3, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 40.

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India's Great Need

By Bertha A. Kurtz

ANY one being in India, if but for a short time, will appreciate the importance of carrying out the injunction given by our Saviour in Matt. 9:38: “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.” When we realize that there are millions here in India who have heard nothing of the third angel’s message, and who must hear it before our Lord can return, and then when we take into consideration the few who are here to bring this last message to this vast multitude, we feel like exclaiming, “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers” into this needy field.
I feel safe in saying that the earnest prayer of every worker here in India is that the Lord will lay the burden of the needs of this country on the hearts of many of our young people in the home land to such an extent that they will cheerfully consecrate their lives to the spread of this message among the people of India.
God has told us that there would be some of every nation, kindred, tongue, and people who would accept this message and have a place in his soon-comingkingdom. I feel sure that there are many who are honest in heart among the people of India, and that a rich harvest awaits any one who, relying on God for help, will enter this field and search for the jewels scattered among this great sea of people.
I have been in this country only a little more than a year, but during this time I have learned truly to love these people, although up to the present time I have not been able to work much among them, except through the distribution of tracts, as I am unable to speak their language; but as I am devoting my time now to its study, I am looking forward in happy anticipation to the time when I shall be able to tell them in their own tongue the blessed news of Christ’s soon coming, when all who keep his commandments shall be gathered home, and shall have right to the tree of life.
BERTHA A. KURTZ.