Our India Mountain Mission Home.
As WILL be seen by our report on another page, we have received $428.32 toward the one thousand dollars still needed to complete our Mountain Mission Home in India, and have it dedicated free from debt. Our oldest minister, Elder J. N. Loughborough, came into our office a day or so since and left $20 with us to help this mission. He stated that this was a part of some of the effects left by his wife. Some time before her death they had signed a paper together in the which each one was instructed, in case of the death of the other, that the surviving one was to place all of the belongings of the deceased in the treasury for the advancement of the work of proclaiming to the world the message of the soon coming of Christ. Brother Loughborough said that he thought his late wife would have her desires carried out in giving a part of the funds for the establishing of this worthy mission. As has been stated from time to time in these columns, this mission is for the purpose of affording our missionaries a retreat in the cool mountain climate, away from the debilitating and health-destroying heat of the lowlands of India. A number of our most devoted and efficient missionaries have been placed in their graves in India because they did not have any way of escape from the climatic effects of the lowlands until their health was broken beyond recovery. The mountain retreat is just what they need in that country. The devoted men and women who leave home and friends to spend their lives in carrying the Gospel into those dark lands should have all that is necessary in the way of facilities for keeping their health. There is no more worthy enterprise, and we will be glad to receive donations till the small amount still needed is made up. Send your donations to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Mountain View, Cal.