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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Mar 20, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 12.

OUR MISSION IN INDIA.

By Editor

It has been some time since we have referred to this splendid work, but all of our friends have not forgotten it by any means and there have come in some funds from time to time to cheer the hearts of the missionaries there. Up to the first of March, there has been sent direct to this office, $3,241.50. This we have forwarded to India by the way of Washington. The Southern California Conference, if we rightly remember, gave $2,500 to this fund, which they sent direct to Washington. Some of our readers have sent donations for this purpose direct to the Mission Board. Just how much has been raised for that purpose we are not able to say as we have had no report from Washington, but we think about $6,000. This will be a great help toward a mission in the mountain regions of India, and a life-saver to the missionaries who are there.

We would say for the encouragement of our readers that already work is being done among the Hindustani people. A neat, illustrated pamphlet has been gotten out on the present truth of the Gospel, printed in the Hindu tongue. We confess to our readers that we are not able to read a word of it, but we are assured by our missionaries and also by the illustrations that it contains needed truth, and that it will prove a blessing to the souls of those for whom it is designed. This will be sold among the educated native peoples by the workers, who can thus in large part support themselves. One of our missionaries, Mrs. Georgia A. Burgess, writes under date of January 21:

"The workers in India have all been much encouraged by the noble efforts of those connected with the Signs of the Times to raise means for a mountain mission. The matter met with a very hearty reception by our workers in the conference just passed, and it was decided that several of the brethren start out as soon as possible to look up a suitable location.

"The Lord has greatly blessed us since our return to India in giving us an excellent opening for our work in one of the most healthful places in India, in preserving our health, and in giving us some souls for our hire from among the Hindustani people. We hope in the next few years to see many workers from among the native people themselves raised up to carry this message to the millions of Hindustani people."

Below we give the unreceipted items to March 1, the date of our remittance to the General Conference: Previously reported ..............................$3,165.50 Mrs. S. and daughter ............................. 25.00 Lillian Glass .................................... 5.00 J. H. Landrum and wife ........................... 6.00 Mrs. Wm. Chinnock ................................ 10.00 John Reid ........................................ 7.00 H. A. St. John ................................... 10.00 W. B. James ...................................... 10.00 H. S. Austin ..................................... 1.00 H. A. Morehouse .................................. .50 A friend ......................................... 1.00 J. W. Patterson .................................. .50 Total ............................................$3,241.50

This new mission among the mountain and hill tribes of India is not designed for a place of rest, but a place of active work, so that those who have been spending six or eight months in the hot, unwholesome, fever-laden coast lands and lowlands of India, may recuperate by spending the rest of the year among the hill tribes. We shall gladly receive further donations for this splendid enterprise, and will receipt them from time to time in this paper.