One hundred years ago last month (September) Alexander Campbell was tossing in a small ship on the great Atlantic. This year in the same month Mr. and Mrs. Davis and I were in a

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great ship on that ocean also westward bound. He came from an old land to a new one to propagate fundamental truth. We were coming from a still more ancient land, where we had been, to the best of our ability, proclaiming that same clear truth as found in God's word. Free were we from sectarian bonds to preach the Christ and him crucified. We passed through Ballymena, in Ireland, two days after the 121st anniversary of the birth of Alexander Campbell.

      And now it is my great privilege to bring you a message from a land without youth to a land where youth is king.

      I take this great privilege, not only for our India's sake, but I like to think through me my maternal grandfather, B. U. Watkins, may speak. He wrought with his noble talents for the Reformation, and my parents, too, were among the pioneers.

      In India there are brothers and sisters who would share in this Centennial of praise and rejoicing. Our young churches in Asia would send greetings. They, too, are praying for this Convention. The church in Mahoba is an organized, tithing, working church.

      Here are some of the messages:

      "The day is coming when you will receive your reward. We must all be ready to work hard and endure pain. Remember we live in the midst of the heathen. We must be lights and patterns and we need your prayers. Tell my friends about our little sisters yet in darkness, that they may help them, too, to sing of the joy of His salvation."

      "Freely have we received, freely may we give."

      "What can I render in return to you? Only my love and thanks."

      "By His boundless mercy we have been saved, but, oh, the work that remains to be done is great."

      "Thanking you for what you have done, we plead for more to cross the seas to save souls."

      "How can I thank you for all I have received, be those things food to eat or clothes to wear or other greatest helps? You made our pain your pain. I want you to pray for me, that I may become a true missionary when I grow up."

      "How great is His kindness who has given us spiritual and bodily blessings."

      "We know Christ has 'other sheep' to bring into the fold. Our work is not done."

      "When I came to this place I knew nothing, but now He himself has given me knowledge to work for him." (Written by a Mahoba Orphanage girl.)

      "God never leaves his people alone. He shares in all their labors. Never feel alone. Your work shall yet bring forth fruit. I know I have been brought forth from darkness to light."

      "Tell my friends in America of shepherd less sheep, of unharvested fields in our India. For this reason we ask you to pray to the Lord of the harvest that he may send reapers into his own [66] harvest-field. We ask you to remember that we live in the midst of the heathen and we ask your prayers."

      "Thank my friends who have fed and clothed me all these years, and given from their own silver and gold for me. I thank them for my school-books, too."

      "Yes, Jesus Christ showed us how much God loves us and how we ought to obey God. Jesus Christ left heaven and came as a little baby to this world. When he became a man he was so kind and good. Bad men hurt him and at last killed him, but he still loved them. The love of our Father in heaven is like that of Jesus Christ. It is greater than the love of any man." (A little sermon written to my parents.)

      "I want my friends to pray for me, that I may be ready for the great work. I believe the day is certainly coming when false gods shall be left behind and our people shall come into the refuge of the true Saviour."

      "My friends in America have worked hard to support me. I, a poor orphan child, thank them."

      "My American friends saved my life and I have been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I want to help save others now." (From a girl only four years out of darkness.)

      "From the East and West, from the North and South, we have been gathered and placed in this flock of orphans. We thank you from our hearts that you have shown us the way of salvation."

      "You have wrought for us who can make no return to you."

      "Please tell the people of America the condition of our India, that they may send more to save our sisters from the net of death."

      "I thank my friends for rescuing me, an orphan, and I plead that they remember the places yet in utter darkness. We look on the map of the world, we see the long road you have to come, but we still plead."

      "We repent for the times we forget those whose works have saved us from death. As children we jumped and played and forgot, but now we remember with rivers of tears."

      Under Pandita Ramabai's signature I have this message:

      "I am convinced more and more that the gospel given to our people freely will be the means of their salvation. It will be eternally profitable to spend time and money in giving the gospel to many thousands of pilgrims and to many others. Please pray that all those who read in the gospel the word of God, all who have heard the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, may be saved and gathered into his fold quickly, before he comes again to meet his elect Bride."

      She said to me personally, when I visited her a few months ago, "Tell the people of America, and tell missionaries, not to be discouraged."

      The priest of the largest, richest Hindu temple in Mahoba has lately become a Christian. Out from his searchings after truth and peace in all the famous idol shrines he has come joyfully to the one Saviour of men. He is a young man; he has been chiefly won to Jesus by the life and walk of the boys and girls brought up by your gifts in our orphanages. The young people's work tells and is worth giving and doing for. In our day we are seeing some of the fruits of our labors. To-morrow these will multiply.

[CCR 66-67]