p. 7 | The Plague in India

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 10, 1903

The Plague in India

The plague is to have full sway in India. Such is the news that comes from that stricken district of the Orient. For seven years, ever since its outbreak in that country, the British government has been fighting it, trying every known means to stay its progress; but to-day it is raging more fiercely than ever, and the government has decided to abandon the struggle, and allow the pestilence to run its course. What that means for Asia, and perhaps for the world, can hardly be imagined. Certainly renewed precautions against it will have to be taken by other countries, and even if these escape, Asia, with its teeming millions living in neglect of all sanitary laws, will be a vast harvest field for the scourge. We may well call to mind that the day is close at hand when only those will be safe in any land who have sought and found safety in the Lord. “Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.” Ps. 91:9, 10.