p. 132 | The Bible in India by Christian Herald

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 4, 1886

The Bible in India.

By Christian Herald

IN India measures are in progress for giving to every one who passes an examination at any Indian university a copy of the Holy Scriptures, as one means of counteracting the infidel and impure literature so widely and systematically circulated there among the educated classes. From many parts of India we hear what single copies of the word of God have done. One Hindoo who obtained a copy of the Urdu Bible, and read it daily, expelled idolatry from his village altogether, and exhorts the surrounding villages to leave off worshiping idols. A missionary, in moving from one house to another, accidentally left a New Testament behind him. A Mohammedan, who had strongly opposed the preaching of the gospel, came to live in the house, found the Testament, and read it first to himself, and then to his friends. He became a Christian, and all ceased their opposition. A high official of the Nizam of Hyderabad, while in England on political business, received a copy of the Bible. He read it and was converted. Expecting to be dismissed by the Mohammedan Nizam if he owned himself a Christian, he determined to say nothing about his conversion, when his eye fell on the text: "Whosoever shall confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father which is in Heaven; but whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I deny also before my Father which is in Heaven." He confessed Christ before the Nizam, and, contrary to his expectation, was retained in his service, and permitted not only to hold, but to propagate, his religion. A church with seven hundred adherents is now the result.

—Christian Herald.