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A Hill in Dansalan. Laubach believes Heaven showed him how to win Mohandas Gandhi's support. The great Hindu saw Indian illiteracy as no unmixed curse, since it protected Indians from Western railroad-station literature. But Laubach upset Gandhi by a sudden question: Where would he be if nobody could read his works? From time to time Laubach has found God speaking to him in encouragement, especially on a hilltop in Dansalan. Last New Year's Eve in Bolivia's La Paz, Laubach had "a wonderful night of fellowship with Christ. I was able to talk aloud to Him . . . hour after hour . . i often He answered back using my lips."
The full spread of Laubach's teaching method is impossible even to guess. But his "each one teach one" scheme spread rapidly throughout the Philippines, has been transplanted to four continents. Once, for example, 60 University of the Philippines' students taught 700 illiterates, and each pupil promised to pass his skill farther down the line. Laubach estimates that 50 to 70% of the Mindanao Moros learned to read from his charts.