W. C. BARLOW by W. C. Barlow

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 6, 1904

W. C. BARLOW

By W. C. Barlow

India

SANTAL MISSION SCHOOL, SIMULTALA, BENGAL.—We are delighted week by week with the encouraging reports which we read in the REVIEW AND HERALD, from different parts of the world. We can see that God's blessing is accompanying the message with power and success. May we all continue to watch, pray, and do our very best to sound forth the message of a soon-coming Saviour, and to warn the world against the mark of the beast, while we have health and strength.

Since writing last to the REVIEW, God has been blessing the work among the Santal students here. Some time ago Brother Shaw paid us a visit, and baptized two of the students and a young woman, the wife of one of them.

Elder Shaw also dedicated a small church and schoolhouse, which was erected by the students. It is built of mud walls and grass roof, in the Indian style. During the first part of the day, the students study in Hindi, Santali, etc., and the latter part of the day they work in the fruit and flower garden. They also do a good share of the work of planting trees on the roadside, aided by the district board. We have set out several hundred fruit-trees already this rainy season, as well as a large number of papia trees in our own mission compound. We are very busy with this work at present. One day the students go to the jungles for thorns for fencing the trees. Another day they go out to transplant. And by way of change, they help in digging another well to supply water for the papia garden during the hot season. So you see they are fully engaged in some kind of practical work with the soil, as well as with their studies.

We have almost finished building a small village church and schoolhouse about ten miles to the northeast of Simultala. We hope to camp there this cold season with our training-school students, for a few months, and encourage other Santals to come and hear the gospel message · given by testimony and song.

Last month we treated twenty-five sick people. Cholera has lately broken out around us, and we give medicine to as many as will take it.