Our India Mission by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 19, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 25.

Our India Mission.

By Editor

Do not pass by our Missions Department. It tells you about our missionaries' Mountain Home in India to which our readers have contributed liberally during the last year. It is not a hospital. It is not a place for sick men. Some of our readers may not know how fearfully enervating and disease-laden the climate, atmosphere, and soil of the coast lands of India are,—hot and humid to a degree unknown in America. For an energetic American white man to work in those districts a year is almost certain death, or life-long disability. A place in the higher, cooler, drier mountain districts has been needed, a place close by many people who need the Gospel of Christ, a place to which the missionaries in the lowlands may flee during the hottest part of the year, restore their wasting energies, and still labor for souls. Such a place has been found and purchased. The price asked is $8,000, a reduction of $2,000. There has been raised for this purpose $7,000. One thousand more is needed. We know our readers will respond, and respond quickly. Brother Shaw writes that to raise a thousand dollars in that country would take a thousand days.

We did not intend to make this note so long. Read our Missions Department, see the beautiful spot and modest building. If a little more than a thousand were raised, it would help them to straighten the wire fence, and to fix up a room for the weariest missionary a little better.

Since our last remittance to the Mission Board for the Mountain Home—$3,241.50—sent in March, we have received the following:

To March 31, reported in SIGNS of April 17, $ 6.00 Victor Weed ............................ 1.00 Miss A. Goodall ........................ 30.00 X. Y. Z. ............................... 5.00 Mrs. C. Lepel .......................... 2.00 W. C. Dexter ........................... 10.00 J. Shunhoff ............................ 3.00 Lucy Slayton ........................... .50 Mrs. C. W. Huntington .................. .50 Minnie M. Jordan ....................... 1.00 Mrs. Alice B. Witt ..................... .50 J. L. Longshore ........................ 1.25 John B. Reid ........................... 2.50 Mrs. A. Kniffin ........................ 1.25 Julia C. Brown ......................... 6.75 --------------------------------------------- Total to May 30 ........................ $71.25