Among the Gold Mines in South India
By E. E. Morrow
ABOUT forty miles from the city of Bangalore, in southern India, is a mining district known as the Kolar gold fields. The country is rocky and desolate; but large plants have been erected, and many mines sunk far into the earth, where thousands of natives are employed in digging for the precious gold. Last year, one of our colporteurs, a young Tamil man, visited the district with English and Tamil literature. An interest was created, resulting in several written requests for me to visit a small company there and study the word of God with them. So I arranged to meet with them whenever possible, and we had many profitable Bible studies together. Several determined to follow the Lord Jesus, and walk in all the commandments of God. Such souls are more precious than the fine gold of Ophir, mentioned in Isa. 13: 12. This encouraged us to still greater efforts in circulating gospel literature, as we know that God watches over it, and that it will not return to Him void.