"There were other missionaries who strongly encouraged the ministry Indian evangelists and whose ministry lead to mass movements, among them the noted Methodist Bishop, James Thoburn. Sherwood Eddy, a leading figure in the Student Volunteer Movement, captured the spirit of Thoburn's ministry in own recollections:" "My first contact with him was at the Northfield Students Conference in 1890.
He made a powerful appeal, voicing the needs of India, and mentioning incidentally that very simple Indian workers could be supported for thirty dollars a year, though he made no request for money. Mr. Moody silenced the applause which greeted this address by saying it would be better to support some of Bishop Thobum's workers than merely to applaud. He said that he and Mr. Sankey would each take one subscription, and that a leader on the platform would be ready to receive others. I was one of the hundred there who gave thirty dollars each, and Bishop Thobum was left breathless as he received three thousand dollars contributed on the spot. At the end of the same year, when I was told that the Indian worker supported by my thirty dollars had brought over a hundred men to Christ, I took another subscription, and another, and finally sold the gold case of my watch to support yet one more evangelist."
("From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya" 2nd edition, Ruth A. Tucker Pg 143,144, Zondervan, 2004)
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