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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1902

India

By W. A. Barlow

SIMULTALA, BENGAL.—I have lately returned from a three months' tour, collecting funds for the mission and selling and distributing literature. I spent much of July in visiting the Boer prisoners in the camps of northern India. I circulated a number of our Dutch papers among them. The work here is going forward steadily, by God's help and blessing. There are many sick all around us. I am unable to do as much for them as I would like, owing to my limited medical knowledge. We could treat hundreds of villagers monthly if we had a medical missionary. I have to send the difficult cases to the next mission station, sixteen miles from here, conducted by a doctor and his wife of the Free Church of Scotland. Quite a number of poor sick women are waiting for my wife to visit them, but at present she is not able to do this, on account of her health. We need the help of a medical missionary, as such work wins the people quicker than anything else, except the pure, simple gospel message of full, free salvation; and these two together go well—preaching the gospel and healing the sick. Please remember us in prayer. We thank the American brethren for all the practical help given since we started. W. A. BARLOW.