An Unreached State in India
WRITING from Landour, North India, Mr. W. H. Greet says: “The native state of Teeree Garhwal is a country unreached with the gospel. Preaching tours throughout the State are possible if preachers have power to climb as well as to preach. Tours have been made in times past in some parts of the State by workers of the nearest missions, but the State as a whole lies untouched. Four years ago in London we picked out its map, and, following after the will of God, we are working here. In the nearest villages they say that ‘shikar’ (hunting) sahibs come for bears and leopards; in the farther ones they know of ‘compassi,’ men (compass men—surveyors) sent by government to spy from the heights that divide their wide valleys, on the sides of which their hundreds of villages lie; but a preacher of the gospel they do not know. ‘Do no preachers come?’ I asked in one of many places. ‘O, yes,’ answered the man I spoke to, ‘pandits and Brahmans visit us.’ He only knew of preachers of Hinduism. For some time we have been supported, while pioneering, but of late we have been made to feel our inability to work alone. We are asking the Lord and his people, ‘Where are the calls for Teeree’s help?’ and ‘Where are the answers!’”—Exchange.