The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-21
Alice Wishart's Letter.
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adopt ~ school, mother; you and
father. II is only about $500 a
month, and pays the biggest divl-
dends gong; more than 10 per
cent, ! should say, from what |
see. And what is $50 year any
way compared to even one soul?
Just such work as this prevents
such awful scenes as we saw at
the Mela 1t will prevent it IN
the future If we get the children
for Christ now. We must have
them.
Jan. 29.-Last week 1 was so
full of the mela l could not write
about anything else, and it is no
wonder for it's a heart breaking
affair to see such sights. To-day
Basaut and the last great day of
the tamasha; it means that spring
has come. | felt we must go
down to day and try to see if we
could not do some thing, as the
crowd would not be so dense as
the last day was and perhaps we
would be able to give some gos-
pels and Bhajan books, or speak
word of the good news to some
poor soul. The crowds were
great, but not os liam my" as last
week so that we were able to get
around among the people without
beng crushed. We had several
hundred yospels and as many
more tracts which | knew We
would soon dispose of, so we walk
ed up through the crowd going to
oathe and took our first stand on
the high embankment where the
returned bathers were sitting
watching the professions some
hundred yards below. Basant
is the day they are supposed to
worship their sacred books and
some feared that they would not
take any from US, but we walked
unconcernedly over among sever
al groups of people from the viii
lagos, ostensibly to see the pro-
cession also, and 1t was scarcely
a minute until we were surround
ed By a small crowd of pleased
and wondering country cousins"
asking what we had in our bands
so that when we began giving out
the leaflets they wei e all eager as
any thing for some of them. Old
women would stretch out their
thin, bony arms and say Miss
Sahlb do give me book too, and
when | would demonstrate aud
say "Why, j, you cannot read :"
they would say, "No, to be sure,
but | have a son or daughter, or
some body, as the case may be,
who can, so please :" 1t was
scarcely an hour until one big
basket was empty, and we saw
dozens of them gong away with
their precious leaflets or gospels
tucked safely away in their scari's
or some other safe place; tor al
ways took particular pains to i'm
press on them that these little
books were very precious indeed,
and great care must be taken of
them. When our stock began to
grow low | thought they might as
well pay for them as give their
plce to the priests, idols and "sa-
cred" cows; so we said, "Now
these Bhaian Books are one pice,
the Dharm rula's two pice, but
we will give you the leaflets. A
bright girl of l6 years, perhaps,
came up and wanted book, so |
told her the various prices, and
she forthwith produced a pice
and SAID she would like a Bhajan
Book, which she got. She came
back to where | was standing, in
a few minutes, and said, snow
you Just please sing one of these
to me-" IL took only a moment
to select one thought she would
like she could read the Hindu
character fairly--and then / sang
of the One who had come to save
her, repeating the words of each
line over twice in that drony, ma
sal way they like SO much, so that
she could catch 1t all. She listen
ed as II her life depended on il,