p. 15 | India by W. W. Miller

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 5, 1906

India

By W. W. Miller

KARMATAR.— The work is moving along in India, Burma, and Ceylon. I have just returned from a visit to these places, and am greatly encouraged with the outlook. Sister Della Smith is canvassing in Bombay, and enjoys her work very much.

At Bangalore, where Sister Orr and Brother and Sister Meyers are working, the interest is good. I visited many of their readers, and they seemed to take a deep interest in the Bible. While I was there, they invited me to speak. Thirty were present, and at the close of the meeting they said that an interest had been awakened which some one should care for. A letter from Sister Orr this week reports some keeping the Sabbath.

At Colombo I found that as a result of the tent effort, two families are keeping the Sabbath, and others are interested. Willie Meyer has just returned from Avondale, and has taken up the canvassing work. In thirteen days he took orders to the amount of one thousand rupees. Elder Owen is doing some Bible work. The message is onward in Ceylon.

At Rangoon the work is most encouraging. Our laborers there have a hall, and on Sunday and Tuesday evenings they hold public meetings. The house was crowded the two nights I was there.

Elder Votaw and I visited Moulmein, where Brother Maung Maung is working. As we stepped from the boat, he told us there were eight there who desired baptism. Instead of Maung Maung and his sister May May standing alone, as they did last year, they have several others with them. They feel much encouraged, and are very happy in the new truth, as they call it. I spoke to them from Eph. 1:9, 10, and one of the new Sabbath-keepers interpreted.

The Burmese are a much cleaner people than some of the natives of India, and the field seems more hopeful than India, if we look on the outward appearance.

Last Monday I baptized five of our native students, and a Hindi man who accepted the truth through the efforts of Brother Barlow. He is a talented man, and will engage in the work at ten rupees a month (a little more than three dollars). He loves the truth. He gave up his tobacco, and wherever he goes, he speaks of its bad effects. We were out with him in one of the villages. The people, to show their good will to him, brought a pipe, lighted, and ready for him to smoke. He lost no time in telling them why he refused.

We have sent two Bengali workers to East Bengal, to look after the interest, and word comes that the interest is growing, and they are visiting other villages. It does seem to me that a quick work must be done in these villages; for there are thousands in them, and we shall never be able to spend a long time in any one. Jesus, when invited to remain in a city, said, “I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also.” And if we ever get this message before India’s millions, we must do likewise.

We are all very happy here in India, and enjoy it more and more as we get acquainted with the people. I was thirteen nights on the train, and eight on the boat, in my visit among the workers, and I never felt better. I went third-class; traveled more than six thousand miles, and my railway and boat fare was less than one hundred rupees.

W. W. MILLER.