In leper-land : being a record of my tour of 7,000 miles among Indian lepers including some notes on missions and an account of eleven days with Miss Mary Reed and her lepers / by John Jackson.

  • Jackson, John, 1853-1917.
Date:
[1901]
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Credit: In leper-land : being a record of my tour of 7,000 miles among Indian lepers including some notes on missions and an account of eleven days with Miss Mary Reed and her lepers / by John Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by large coloured pictures illustrating the life of our Lord, as well as by texts. Two fires made the temperature comfortably warm in spite of the cold and cloudy morning. The forty poor sufferers arranged in orderly rows on the floor formed an audience to whom it was a privilege indeed to tell out the unsearchable riches of Christ. At the upper end of the church stood a table covered with a clean white cloth and with a vase of flowers on it. Here in three chairs were seated Miss Reed, Yuhanna, and myself. After Miss Reed had with great earnestness engaged in prayer, she read Psalm 63, after which I spoke on the soul (1) thirsting; (2) satisfied; (3) following. They listened with close and even eager attention, and after the address it was suggested that if any of them felt led to do so they should offer prayer. In response, two of them pleaded most earnestly. Miss Reed felt greatly encouraged by the reality of their petitions. Jogiyani confessed her past shortcomings and besought help to follow closely, and Minnie most earnestly prayed that as they were worshipping in their nice new church they might themselves be temples of the Holy Ghost. Altogether the first Sunday service for the women was an occasion of spiritual helpfulness, from which Miss Reed and I returned to our breakfast with thankful hearts. The women were quite reluctant to leave at the close; as Miss Reed remarked, “ they found it good to be there,” and did not want to go. In the afternoon we held a similar service for the men, thirty-two of whom managed to make the