In response, four Englishmen sailed from Britain, bound for Bombay. Claude Goodman and his partner, Ron Tippin, stepped ashore in August 1929, just a few months after Ewart Francis of Gloucester and his partner Stephen Gillett had arrived. After a brief introduction to the brothers in Bombay and to the methods of doing things in India, these pioneers were assigned to their respective territories.

SOME SUCCESS IN THE PUNJAB

A further effort was now made to spread the Kingdom message in the Punjab. A short sea trip brought Claude Goodman and Ron Tippin to Karachi.

The following experience illustrates how Jehovah cares for his faithful servants: After spending about a week living in the cheapest accommodations available, Ron Tippin witnessed to the proprietress of a large hotel in Karachi. She took the literature and asked where he was staying. Upon being told, she invited these two brothers to be her guests for as long as they stayed in town. Since the pioneers received no personal allowance from the Society, this was indeed a marvelous provision enabling these two brothers to continue serving in a dignified manner with funds needed for the work ahead.

From Karachi, Goodman and Tippin moved northward to the desert city of Hyderabad in the province of Sind. Now it was a parting of the ways, as Tippin went north to Quetta to aid the Harding family, while Goodman traveled to Ambala to give encouragement to the Manning family.

After some time in Ambala, Goodman again was joined by Tippin. Together they set off for Lahore in response to many letters received from the villages in the Punjab around that city. The writer of these letters turned out to be a free-lance clergyman. Speaking no Punjabi, and having no Bible literature in that language, they could only give talks on the “Chart of the Ages,” using this clergyman as translator. Large crowds gathered to listen, but it was later learned that the villagers’ chief interest was for our “Mission” to build them a school or a hospital.