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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 16, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 33.

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GEORGIA A. BURGESS

By Georgia A. Burgess

India

GEORGIA A. BURGESS

We were unable to obtain the piece of land in Tulsipur which we had selected for our mission station. When we made the application, we did not know that the land was under cultivation, but afterward learned that it was in the hands of the cultivators. While we were in Tulsipur, my husband became acquainted with a native gentleman from Almora, a hill station in the Himalayas, several hundred miles from Tulsipur, who gave him a cordial invitation to spend the hot season there. And as it was already becoming so warm on the plains that we could accomplish very little during the day, either in study or in work among the people, it seemed to us a providential opening.
About two weeks ago we came here, and can plainly see the Lord’s hand in guiding us here. While at this season of the year the heat on the plains is intense, here the air is cool and bracing, and the surroundings are delightful. The Lord has opened the way for us to obtain the use of half of a small furnished cottage at a monthly rental of about $3.25. There are many Hindi- and Urdu-speaking people here, and we are already finding openings for work among them.
We are planning to remain here during the hot season, and spend some time in study and getting out literature in the Hindi and Urdu languages. Until recently we have had but one little four-page tract, on the coming of the Lord, for these eighty million people. As we were coming over on the boat, we got out a little tract on the first angel’s message, in Hindi, and while in Tulsipur, with some native help, put it into the Urdu language also. Our tract society in Calcutta had ten thousand printed for us, and while in Tulsipur we had an excellent opportunity of scattering these silent messengers far and wide. Last month there was a large gathering at that place, attended by many thousands from all the surrounding country, whom we could never hope to reach in their homes. Through the help of a native brother, a large number of these tracts were distributed at that time, and we trust that eternity will reveal some fruit as the result.
It certainly seems that among these millions, where there are so few workers, it must be largely through the circulation of our literature that the message will be carried. During the few months we remain here, if the Lord wills, we hope to get out a little magazine of perhaps sixteen pages, in the Hindi and Urdu languages, containing articles on all the leading points of the message—something that will be sufficient to give those who read it a clear view of the truth for this time, though they may never have the opportunity of hearing the living preacher. We are both well and happy, and rejoice every day that the Lord opened the way for us to return to this needy field.
Almora.