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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 38.

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INDIA

By J. L. Shaw

CALCUTTA.—Brother E. Robinson has left us for the central provinces, to work up the subscription list of the Oriental Watchman. We are sorry to have him go; still we are anxious to have him in the field once more. Brother Quantock will also go out on the paper work next week, and in October he and Brother Burgess expect to go to Madras to engage in the paper and book work. Sister Whiteis has gone to Karmatar to remain with Sister Quantock during Brother Quantock’s absence, and will spend her time while there studying the language and treating the natives. Brother Burgess is at work at the sanitarium, and is also studying the language. Sister Fleming is visiting among the zenanas, and distributing literature.
Our little company here is being reduced in number by the removal of several to other places. We shall miss them, but they may serve as the nucleus of a little company at another place later on. Brother Myers writes us the good news that he is selling a large number of books. He is working in Singapore and the Straits Settlements.
I went to Simultala and visited Brother Barlow and his mission. Although he has been laboring under great disadvantages, he is now quite comfortably settled. While I was there, we visited the surrounding villages; and after we returned and had dinner, about fifty persons came, asking us to talk to them, which we did. They seemed to appreciate the interest taken in them. Brother Barlow’s plan is to carry on an industrial mission, and give those who are destitute of food work in tilling the soil, and by this means teach them improved methods of farming.
We have never regretted that we came to this country, but how small are we among these millions of people! Our only hope of helping them is to be so filled with the power of God that our lives shall strike conviction to the hearts of the people in their ignorance and superstition, and turn them to Christ.
J. L. SHAW.