An Indian missionary writes: “A high-caste Hindu, by trade a tailor, working for me, sitting on my veranda, heard me reading from the Gospels and explaining as I went on. He became interested, and one day asked me to give him a copy in Hindi, as he could read that. I gave him St. John’s Gospel. Now and again he would ask a question, and I saw the man was wanting to know more about what he read at home, that he might more clearly understand. I then felt it would be good to read the Revelation to him. He became intensely interested. When he came to the vision of God’s throne in the fourth chapter, of the book with seven seals, no one found worthy to open it, and the rest, till he came to the sixth verse, fifth chapter, where mention is made of the Lamb as it had been slain, who took the book to loose the seven seals thereof, I looked at him and said, ‘You remember in John’s Gospel, 1:29, John the Baptist said, “Behold, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world!” This One and the One John pointed to are the same. He has been slain and has risen.’ Then when we went on to the end of the same chapter, where the Lamb gets the adoration and worship of all heaven, honor, glory, and power to Him that sitteth upon the throne and the Lamb forever and ever, the man looked at me and said, with a new light in his eyes, ‘I understand; and if what you have13read and explained to me could be told to our Hindu people, many would become Christians. They read but don’t understand, as they have none to explain; these are wonderful words I have heard today.’ He has since been sorely tried; two children died of plague, and his caste people told him, ‘See what comes of your religiousness, your reading that book. God is angry with you and has taken your children.’ He came and told me this. I gave him comfort from God’s word, and bade him look to God nevertheless and hold on, for he would see his dear ones again. That was in March last. About a fortnight ago another Hindu came and asked for John’s Gospel, and said, ‘I am the brother of the tailor you had last March, Harbunse by name.’ So Harbunse has done for his brother what Andrew did long ago, ‘first findeth his own brother,’ and may he also come out as a follower of the Master.”—The Indian Witness.
