Thirteenth Sabbath Offering for India
By Editor
The new plan goes into effect the thirteenth Sabbath of the present quarter—March 30, 1912. The first special enterprise is the cities of India. Perhaps some will remember the intense interest that was manifested in Calcutta in the winter of 1898-99, when Elder D. A. Robinson began his work in that city. When he began his lectures on the signs of the last days, and the coming of the Lord, the street in front of the theater where the meetings were held was fairly blocked with the carriages that came, bringing the people to hear the message. His death stopped that work. Since that time calls have repeatedly come for evangelists to enter Calcutta and other cities of India. Each year the call has grown more urgent and more imperative. From the standpoint of the treasury the enlargement of the work in this way seemed quite impossible, but the need was so urgent that Brethren G. W. Pettit and J. M. Comer with their wives have been sent to India to open up work in the cities. They are now there. The need for means to carry on this work is immediate and most urgent. It is hoped that the Sabbath-school offerings on the thirteenth Sabbath of this quarter may be so liberal that this work may be quite fully established. Let the unconscious call from the millions of India sound in our ears until it is our chiefest delight to respond to that call. Brethren Pettit and Comer understand that on March 30 the Sabbath-schools in this country will remember them and their work in a substantial way. Let us not disappoint them.