The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-10-18
MISSION WORK IN INDIA.
Letter from Miss Alice Wishart TO Her
Parents al Wells Tannery.

a really long letter. This Is T. o
good for you to MISS, so | must
give you just bit OF glimpse of
mission IN the county, in India.
| believe thoroughly IN seeiu' all
kinds of mission work one can, as
1T helps so much in ones own
work, although it may be differ.
ent; so when Mrs. Bandv, of the
Farakkaoad pres. mission, gave
me pressing third invitation to
visit them and see their work
the way opened up to go; | went;
and shall always be glad for it.
Fatehgarh is only about $50
miles northeast of Alleha bad; but
being off the main line, hard to
reach, taking parts of two days
to make the journey. The rail
road guard tackled eserved
card on my carriage, so [ had it
all to myself the whole way, [
beng the only European travel.
ing. Such a slow old train But
| enjoyed it, because we were 60
ing through country all the way
green waving fields of corn,
groves of lovely trees, banks of
wild lantana, creepers, monkeys,
and all the animals that lnhabit
the country places. Such
swarms of native people were
travelling, and all so merry and
good.natured. The rams have
been good; so everywhere the
fields were green and crops look
ed well, and why should they not
be happy.
The train pulled into Fatehgarh
station IN that lelsurely way In
dian trains do, about in the af
teruoon, and a host of coolies
crowded to the door of my com
partmeht to see who would get
the luggage first. After select
ing one, we made our way through
a chatterlng, voclferating crowd
of turbaned heads to the exit,
where a man in clean white
clothes, salaamed and said he had
been sent by Bandv Sahib to meet
me, so off we went IN one of those
rattley vehicles called a theka
gari. | was so afraid the mis-
sion house would be in the city
and was so glad when we left al
the houses behind and drove out
into the real country. Rev
Bandy met US half way on his
wheel, and pointed out place, OF
interest on the way out. Soor
we saw the mission buildings ano
drove into a huge compound
where two families of missionar
les live, and scores of native
CHRISTIANS nice plain little
church used for the Training
School classes, and also the work
shopused for the industrial work
with the Boys Orphanage.
About 800 people live IN this
compound, and you may be sure
it Is a busy place. Mr.. Bandy
has started a band for some o
the musical boys, and half a doz
en- are footing as many dltferen
tunes just now IN the next room
so you can guess under wha
"stress" this letter is being writ
ten. One must not get nervous
in India; no, never After A p
m. dinner, we went over to Rak
ka, 3 miles, to TIE Girls Orphan
age, where the boys were to CIV
their first performance. 1t wa
to be "muslcal evening" Ma
tive people love music dearly; S
a number OF the men who pla,
the dhola-a little drum on wnicI
they strum with their hngers
add another instrument mucI
like Gym balls, came along to pla,
in the intervals. The girls II
their white chadders looked YER,
demure sitting on the ground i
orderly rows singing "Onwar'
christian Soldiers" to the ban
accompaniment; but what | like
best, was the native hymns sun
by the village men with the dhol
and majira. One clever fellow
who has been a Christian onl
two years, sang the story of tn
, creation of man, put into verse i
his own dialect by hlms self In dii