We take the following extracts from a letter accompanying the above article, which we are sure will be of interest to our readers:
"We received your cablegram just a few days before the dedication, and I can not tell you how thankful we were to be able to tell our people at the time of the dedication of the Mountain Mission Rest Home that all the purchase money had been raised, and that we could call ourselves free from debt. Thank God a hundred times, yea, a thousand, for His goodness and for this pleasant home in the cool mountains of the Himalayas.
"We find that the work is steadily opening before us and yet by God's help we hope to see even more accomplished in the future than in the past. While this is a rest home, I want to assure you that it affords a large field of missionary effort both among the native and English-speaking people. Just now the climate is delightful. The rainy season is finished and an unclouded blue sky may be seen from day to day. The air is cool, crisp, and invigorating. Doctor Menkel, of the Calcutta Sanitarium, was up at the dedication and was delighted and charmed with the place.
"Next week we are planning to go down to Calcutta for the cool season, and after remaining there a few weeks for the council of the advisory board, I am planning to go to South India in company with Brother James and visit the Sabbath-keepers in the Tinnevelly district. You have probably heard that there are several hundred Christians in the southernmost part of India who are Sabbath-keepers. From there I expect to go across to Burma and spend some time there. We shall not be back to the Mountain Mission Home for four or five months.
"During the cool weather all the workers will go down to the plains and improve the time working there while it is cold. From the first of November until the middle or latter part of March the climate on the plains is very pleasant, and during that time I hope to visit our mission stations and get more fully in touch with the work as it is being carried on in different places. May God greatly bless the work in poor India."