The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1904-04-29
From Far Away India.
Sanjan. Thoma Dist. India,
March 3lth, 1904.

Sanian. Thoma Dist. India,
March 3lth, 1904.
MR. ANp MRs. +. y. GElswOLD.
Yale. Mich.
Dear Friends in Christ; We greet
YOU from lndia's shores with Psa. 20 ..
We praise God for his protecting care
over us all along the way. From Him
cometh all good things. Jas. ~. We
left Naples, Italy. about midnight, Feb.
18th, having spent 81 days there our
delay there, although unexpected, was
very profitable in different ways. Gods
ways are always best. and We wish TO
profit by all His dealings with us.
We got along very nicely while IN
Naples, and. comparatively, with very
/ little expense. Naples has "a good eli.
mate. and we were in healthy condi-
ton when we left there. We had quite
smooth sailing most of the way: just a
/ little rough on the Mediterranean Sea,
| but on the Red Sea and Indian Ocean
il was very smooth, sometimes like
glass. We were not near so much sea
sick as we were the other part of the
! trip. There was not much of special
| interest 20 be seen at the different ports,
and we did not 60 ashore rs the ship
stopped out in the harbOr in each
place.
We arrived i'm Bombay Sunday morn
ing, March 9Th, "a day ahead OF time.
There was no one at the ship 10 meet
MS but we found our way To some Of
our friends with whom we had former
acquaintance. We stayed IN Bombay
a few days. then came 20 Sanlan, about
hundred miles north of Bombay where
the Vanguard Orphanage rs located. \
number of the workers from the Or
phanage came 20 the station with most
OF the children Co meet Us. Thus we
were received with joy and gladness.
by both the native orphan children and
the missionaries.
II is very interesting 90 hear these
children I'm their devotlons. especially
singing. Many of these children have
become real christians and are in real
earnest in their deyutious. Others are,
getting saved.
These children with thousands of
Others all over India were rescued from
the famines of 1896 and 1900 aud are
now all under christian influence aud
instruction and are having the truths
and principles of the Gospel deeply inn
bedded In their minds and hearts. The
children seem 20 be. largely, the hope
of India, as the caste system IS one OF
tie great superstitiOns OF the llindOO.
and so stringent are their caste rules
that 10 get convert 20 accept Christ
and come out for him Is like pulling
the eye.tooth of a live tiger.
There are about hundred children
here at present, SO IL is quite a lively
place around here. They had double
native wedding here few days after
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the girls of the orphanage were mar
ried. There were number of other
missionaries present who were here
visiting aud for rest. The ceremony
was performed by one OF the mission.
aries who has been here for % years
After the ceremony we had dinner, al
together IN large double room Ia the
mission bungalow. We all ate In native
custom-sittng on the floor and eating
with our fingers. he natives always
eat this way, but the missionaries
did so just on this special occasion.
This was our first experience, eating In
native style. aud we got along quite
well. but we enjoyed the eating with
our fingers better than we did the sit
ting on the floor as our legs got very
tired. The two married couples will re-
main i'm connection with the mission
and work IA the industrial department
rs before. They have each erected n
small hut for themselves on the mission
farm and are now living In them.
One day I heard the boys singing
IN their quarters aud went down
10 see what was going on. found that
they were IN school repeating the
multiplication table and were chant.
ing IL. The native children an study
aloud here. They say that they would
not get their lessons IL left to study in
silence. This. of course, would be con.
fusing 90 us, 90 have one class reciting
aud all the rest OF the school studying
aloud. But they are used 90 IL.
This is the hot aud dry season, aud il
will get much warmer before the mon.
soOns-that is the yearly rains which
come In the month of June aud last
two or three months, during which per.
iod IL will last much of the time. It is
very warm even now. runs up 20 90 and
% degrees (Fahrenheitl I'm the cool part
of the house; In the interior Il Is still
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