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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 14, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 28.

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India

By J. L. Shaw

CALCUTTA.—Last week we had baptism at Chandernagor. There were three candidates baptized in the Hooghly River. This was the first baptism, I presume, the people at Chandernagor ever witnessed. There were a company of not less than one hundred and fifty at the riverside to see the baptism. Some were English, and some natives. One of the candidates was a native brother, who has been engaged in missionary work among the educated Bengalis. It meant much for this brother to step out and resign a position where he was getting good pay, when he had no promise of support from any other direction; but God is giving him the victory. His wife felt it so keenly that she returned to her Hindu parents. But notwithstanding all this, the brother has been holding on firmly. His case is but an evidence of what the Lord is able to do.
A small school has been started for Santals. Our plan is to take a number of young men who desire to learn, and daily give them four hours' instruction, allowing them to put in an equal number of hours in labor. Of course they will not be able to earn their way and pay for their food; but it costs only about one dollar to pay for the food of a student for a month. We are trying to interest different individuals in this work, and we hope several will be willing to pay the tuition of a young man in school, which will be about one dollar a month, amounting to twelve dollars a year. I believe a good work can be done in this way. I never saw any more interested to learn than some of the Santal boys. Brother Barlow has had to turn away several, because he had no funds to support more pupils. These students come ten, fifteen, or twenty miles to attend the school. The plan is to teach them the Word of God from the time they come until they go away. As they return to their homes, they will disseminate what they have learned.
The weather has been very hot, and we are looking forward to the time when the rains will break. We are of good courage in the work. J. L. SHAW.