Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . on earthshould all the praise belong. The following report (be sure you study the tables at the close) was prepared byBishop W. B. Stover, the founder of missions in India for the Church of the Brethren: THE REPORT In giving the report from year to year, the plan of it is varied, so as to help sus-tain the desired interest. Every missionary is doing all in his power for the causewe stand for, but a good deal of hard work is of such a nature as not to appear inreports. During the year at home on furlough, while resting, Bro. Blough visitedeight schools, attended
Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . on earthshould all the praise belong. The following report (be sure you study the tables at the close) was prepared byBishop W. B. Stover, the founder of missions in India for the Church of the Brethren: THE REPORT In giving the report from year to year, the plan of it is varied, so as to help sus-tain the desired interest. Every missionary is doing all in his power for the causewe stand for, but a good deal of hard work is of such a nature as not to appear inreports. During the year at home on furlough, while resting, Bro. Blough visitedeight schools, attended three Bible terms, three Sunday-school Meetings, five councils, .nnual Report 23 six love feasts, gave thirty-eight special talks, 168 India talks, sixty-two sermons, inninety congregations and 130 churches. There is nothing a hard-working missionaryenjoys quite like the fellowship of the churches. At the head of each station report is given the missionary staff, showing as nearas possible what it was in the year under When It Rains the Rivers Are Pull. AHWA, DONG COUNTRY, VIABILIMORA STATION OPENED JANUARY, 1907 Staff, John M. Pittenger, Florence Pittenger, four teachers, male; one teacher,female. Away out in the Dong Country, sixty miles from the railway station, we countthat Bro. and Sister Pittenger are more isolated from the rest of us than any otherof our missionaries. Besides, the Dong Country is a tract of 900 square miles ofwooded hills, some as much as 5,000 feet high. Amid the trees on the hillsides, orway down in the valleys between, are clustered the numerous little villages of people, of whom not ten can read, and who are learning to regard Bro. Pitten-ger as the one man they can look to for medical aid, for instruction of their children,and for religious guidance. I say they are learning to do so, for the superstitions thathave accumulated for centuries, when backed by the complete ignorance of the masses,do not yield themselves willingly even
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