p. 15 | J. C. LITTLE by J. C. Little

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 17, 1906

J. C. LITTLE

By J. C. Little

India

Since coming to Karmatar, I have visited some among the babus. This is quite a health resort during the cold weather season. Lawyers and wealthy merchants come here from Calcutta, to enjoy the cool country air. New bungalow are going up rapidly, and this promises to be a large station before long. People who come for a rest stay from about the middle of October until the first of March. This gives opportunity for work among them during the most pleasant part of the year. And as many of them speak English, we have the additional lever of our literature, which, in some respects, might prove more effective than personal work.

In conversation with one of these men, the subject of the state of the dead was suggested, and he was agreeably surprised to learn that the real teaching of the Bible is not eternal torment. These men are all Hindus or Mohammedans, so we can not appeal to them as believers in the Scriptures. Their ideas are based upon philosophy and heathen mysticism, and they are close reasoners. When once they see the reasonableness of Christianity, it gives opportunity to press home the truth that the God who made the worlds is not a creation of human intellect, or of man's device. How often do we meet such specious reasoning as: “God is power; therefore, power is God.” “There is no such thing as evil; it is all only perverted good. If we had the right education, we should know better than to pervert good.” Of course this puts the power all in human hands, does away with Satan, and acknowledges no need of a Saviour. The Lord gives wisdom to meet all these things.

Among the students of the school we have been holding a weekly prayer-meeting, and it has been a real help to a better life, for most of the boys and girls, we believe. They have freely taken part, both by prayer and by testimonies.

Sister Whiteis is doing medical work among the natives about Karmatar. Never before has there been such an interest in her work. During the hot season she administered from three hundred to four hundred treatments each month. The Lord blessed these, and but few cases were unsuccessful. She has one of the girls of the school helping her.

Looking at the work as a whole, we can truly say it is onward. Of course everything necessarily moves slowly in this country. The native has inherited and an easy-going disposition, and the climate furthers this. But in God's own way this work shall be cut short in righteousness here in India.

We have kept well thus far. The climate is trying, but we are doing our best to husband our strength and vigor. We have just had a month's rest, and feel much better for it.