p. 16 | India by J. L. Shaw

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 23, 1902

India

By J. L. Shaw

CALCUTTA.—The interest is growing in Burma. A Burmese brother has recently given up his government employment to keep the Sabbath. I understand that he is an intelligent man of good address, and has a burden for his own people. He is a brother to the sister who had kept the Sabbath for some time. What a grand thing it will be to have a worker from home, filled with the Spirit, to go to Burma to help those people, and be the means of getting the work established in that field. The assurance that help is forthcoming rejoices my heart. These great cities of the East must be entered as soon as men and means can be found. The truth should be shining forth at Bombay, Colombo, and Madras. I shall say nothing about the two latter places this year if we can only get a man for Bombay, and some one to help us in the canvassing work. We need help in circulating our paper. We are praying and trusting that the Lord will send us help, so that this work shall not be diminished.

It does our hearts good to hear of the liberality of our people toward the foreign fields. I am glad that the Lord is pressing home this work upon the people. I never felt of better courage in the work. We have been sorely pressed for helpers, but the Lord knows all about it, and I am sure that our prayers and your efforts will not be in vain. The work will go as we learn how to meet the people and get the truth before them. It is hard to stir the East. But there is power in this message to do that very thing; and when it gets a foothold, it will sweep from coast to coast. J. L. SHAW.