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wise to send another Committee to investigate those fields.In harmony with your suggestions, Pastor Russell arrangedfor the publication of free literature in the sixprincipal languages of India, viz.: Hindustani, Guiarati,Malayami, Tulugu, Marotti and Tamil. This work isalready under way, as is also a similar work of the Chineseand Japanese. The entire cost of producing threemillion copies, and circulating them through willing natives,will, he believes, be kept within the seven thousanddollars authorized by the Association.In conclusion, your Committee assure you that theyhave done their very best to accomplish the purpose oftheir appointment. They thank the Lord, and also theAssociation, for the great privileges enjoyed in connectionwith the service.C. T. RUSSELL, Pres. Adj.-Gen'l W. P. HALLF. H. ROBISON, Sec'y J. T. D. PYLESE. W. V. KUEHN R. B. MAXWELLDR. LESLIE W. JONES====================R5016 : page 137THE COMMITTEE HOMEWARD BOUNDLeaving India the Committee journeyed via Suez,stopping two days at Cairo. A visit was made to the GreatPyramid, whose wonderful Passages tell by their constructionso much of the Divine Plan that it has been calledthe Stone Bible. We need not here give space to an explanationof the meaning of the passages and their wonderfullessons, so in harmony with the prophecies of the Bible,because the majority of our readers already have this asone of the Chapters in the Third Volume of the STUDIESIN THE SCRIPTURES. We do, however, urge all to a freshreading of this testimony, so helpful to faith.On the second day an excursion was made to the ruinsof Memphis, the ancient Capital of Egypt in Joseph's time,when he was next to Pharaoh in authority. Many ofthe scenes brought freshly to mind the Scripture narrativerespecting Joseph, and later on respecting the finding ofMoses in the rushes of the Nile. The land of Goshen,where the Israelites spent two centuries, and from whichthey were miraculously delivered, the place of their possiblecrossing the Red Sea, the wells of Moses, and thebitter waters of Marah on the opposite shore, were noticed.ATHENS AND MARS HILLNext we visited Athens, made famous through thevisit of St. Paul eighteen centuries ago. There we visitedthe Stadium, where Socrates and other orators of ancientGreece held large audiences by their eloquence. Wethought, too, of the fickleness of public applause, as weviewed the ancient prison in which he died. Other items