Mission to Lepers in India and the East. 
 
 FOUNDED 1874. 
 
 “Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth His hand, and touched him, and saith 
 unto him, I will; be thou clean.”— Mark i. 41. 
 
 Patroness. 
 
 The Marchioness of Dufperin and Ava. 
 
 President. 
 
 His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin. 
 Vice-Presidents. 
 
 Rev. r. E. WiGRAH, M.A., Hon. See. C. M. S. 
 
 Rev. W. Park, m.a.. Convener of Foreign Missions, Irish Presbyterian Church. 
 Rev. R. Wardlaw Thompson, Foreign Secretary London Missionary Society. 
 Viscount Bangor. 
 
 The Right Hon. Lord Polwarth. 
 
 Sir Charles U. Aitchison, k.c.s.i., ll.d. 
 
 Sir Monikr Monier Williams, k.c.i.e., d.c.l. 
 
 Committee. 
 
 Major-General Beatty, 21, Vesey Place, Kingstown, Co. Dublin. 
 Surgeon-General De Renzv, c.b., 20, Park Hill, Ealing, W. 
 
 R. Cathcabt Dobbs, Esq., c.k., Greystones, Co. Wicklow. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Good, b.d., S, St. James’ Terrace, Clonskeagh, Dublin. 
 
 Rev. Ralph W . Harden, b.a., 25, Grosvenor Road, Rathmines, Dublin. 
 
 R. Ltnn Heard, Esq., m.b., Munster I odge, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. 
 
 Rev. Gilbert Mahaffv, m.a., 1, Gardiner’s Place, Dublin. 
 
 Rev. Canon Neligan, d.d., 5, Dartmouth Road, Dublin. 
 
 Mrs. Samuel Johnson, 2, Belgrave Road, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. 
 
 Mrs. Charles Pease, Willow Park, Booterstown, Co. Dublin. 
 
 Miss Alexander, Richmond Villa, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. 
 
 Miss Dowse, 6, Eaton Place, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. 
 
 Hon. Secretary. 
 
 Miss C. E. PiM, Alma, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. 
 
 Hon. Secretaries for India. 
 
 Rev. David Herron, Chakrata, N. W. P., India. 
 
 Rev. J. H. Bateson, Simla, Panjab. 
 
 Hon. Treasurer. 
 
 Graves S. Eves, Esq., 18, Burlington Road, Dublin. 
 
 Secretary and Superintendent. 
 
 WELLESLEY C. BAILEY, Esq., 17, Greenhill Place, Edinburgh. 
 
 Hon. Secretary for London and District. 
 
 John Jackson, Esq., 186, Aldersoatb Street, E.C. 
 
 Hon. Secretary for the South of Ireland. 
 
 T. A. Bailey, Esq., Y.M.C.A., Cork. 
 
 Bankers. 
 
 Messrs. Barclay, Ransom, & Co., 1, Pall Mall East, London. 
 
 The TTlster Bank, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. 
 
 The Royal Bank of Scotland, Leven Street, Edinburgh. 
 
Jliss Marv Keep, who is in charge of the Leper Asylum at Chandac, Pithoragarh, 
 
 KW.Xh India. 
 
INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 —oojfrjoo— 
 
 S^totntxetlj Annual Report 
 
 FOR THE YEAR 1894. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 JOHN F. SHAW AND CO., 
 
 48, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 
 
THE 
 
 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY 
 
 WAS HELD IN THE 
 
 Y.W.C.A. ROOMS, BELFAST, 
 
 On MONDAY, APRIL 29th, 1895, 
 
 AT 8 P.M., 
 
 The Lord Mayor of Belfast in the Chair. 
 
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 rjlHE Annual Eeport and Statement of Accounts were pre¬ 
 sented by the Secretary and Superintendent, and the 
 following resolution was moved, seconded, and unanimously 
 adopted ; 
 
 “That the Report and Statement of Accounts now read be adopted; 
 that the Committee and OlBce-bearers of the Society be re¬ 
 elected ; and that Miss Dowse, 6, Eaton Place, Monkstown, 
 Co. Dublin, be appointed a member of the Committee.” 
 
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 
 
 “ This work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.” 
 
 Ezra 5-8. 
 
 W ITHIX a few months the Mission to Lepers will have 
 completed its twenty-first year. In the summer of 1874 
 Mr. Bailey, on his return from India, called the attention 
 of a few Christian people to the sufferings of the lepers; 
 and the Committee now look back with deepest thankfulness 
 on the widely-extended work which has sprung from the 
 small beginnings of that year. We desire to record our 
 gratitude to God for the many sympathisers whom He has 
 raised up, and for our beloved brethren in the mission-field, 
 whose earnest work among the lepers it is our privilege to 
 support wdth gifts and prayers. 
 
 As our subscribers already know, our aim is: 
 
 To lead the lepers to Christ. 
 
 To relieve suffering and want in every way in our power. 
 To save untainted children of lepers from falling victims 
 to the disease. 
 
 We endeavour to provide for the spiritual instruction and 
 temporal relief of the lepers in India, Ceylon, Burmah, 
 China, and Japan, by calling attention to their needs; 
 supplementing local efforts for their welfare, and supplying 
 to missionaries the means for carrying on the work among 
 this most distressed and despairing class. 
 
 From the list of stations appended to this report it will 
 be seen that we have the valued co-operation of the mis¬ 
 sionaries of fifteen different Societies. We have seventeen 
 
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 Asylums, or Hospitals, of our own. Eleven similar Institu¬ 
 tions receive aid from us for maintenance. All of these, 
 together with twelve other places, are open to us for Christian 
 instruction; while in eight places Homes have been provided 
 for the children of lepers, in the hope—which has proved to 
 be well founded—that most, if not all of them, may be 
 rescued from the sorrowful lot of their parents. 
 
 Spiritual Results. 
 
 We thank God these have been as encouraging as ever. 
 In nineteen Institutions inmates have professed their faith 
 in Christ, and have been received into the Christian Church. 
 
 , In all nearly one hundred and fifty have thus professed their 
 faith during the year, while many by consistent lives, and 
 a few by triumphant deaths, have shown the reality of their 
 profession. Some of our Institutions may now be considered 
 as wholly Christian. In this connection we specially draw 
 attention to the extracts which we give from the report of 
 the Rev. G. M. Bulloch. 
 
 There have been some sad backslidings, not many, thank 
 God, but these have caused great grief to some of our most 
 devoted workers, as well as to ourselves. 
 
 Mr. Bulloch’s visit to Asylums. 
 
 Through the kindness of the London Missionary Society, 
 the Rev. G. M. Bulloch, who was returning to his work in 
 India, has been allowed to visit some of our Asylums. Mr. 
 Bulloch, who has already done us good service at home, has 
 once more placed us under a debt of gratitude for the very 
 efficient service he has rendered us in visiting our Asylums 
 and reporting on them. He was received most kindly 
 wherever he went. He has sent us a deeply interesting 
 report, showing the great value of the work which is being 
 done. From this report we can give but a few brief 
 extracts, but we very heartily commend their perusal to 
 
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 our friends and supporters, as also of the reports from the 
 different stations, which will be found of the deepest interest, 
 
 Income. 
 
 The income for 1894 was less than that of 1893 by £1074. 
 This is to be accounted for by the widespread depression of 
 trade and by the fact that we received from our Xorth 
 London Auxiliary £1000 in 1893 and only £250 in 1894. 
 The Committee have been able, however, witli the aid of the 
 balance from last year to maintain all existing work, as well 
 as to commence in some new places. 
 
 Canada. 
 
 A recent “ Occasional Paper ” told of the growing interest 
 in our work in Canada, and of the convention of our Auxil¬ 
 iaries held at Guelph. Some of our Canadian friends have 
 taken up very earnestly the cause of the European Lepers 
 in India, and desire that their funds should be expended in 
 providing accommodation for Europeans. We have received 
 from Canada the sum of £300 8s. \d., which is £38 12s. 2d. 
 more than the previous year. Of the above sum £223 has 
 been placed to the credit of the fund for a European Leper 
 Home. We are deeply grateful to our friends on the other 
 side of the Atlantic for the active and prayerful interest 
 they take in our efforts to alleviate the sad lot of the leper. 
 
 London Office, and the appointment of an 
 Hon. Sec. for London and District. 
 
 The appointment of Mr. John Jackson as Hon. Sec. for 
 London and district has been an event of considerable 
 importance, and one that we have no doubt will prove of 
 immense value to our work. We have long felt the need 
 of a representative in London, and we are very grateful to 
 Mr. Jackson for coming to our aid; we heartily welcome 
 him as a co-labourer. Mr. Jackson has already entered 
 enthusiastically upon his work, and has given several lectures 
 
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 on behalf of the Society. He is willing to address drawing¬ 
 room or other meetings, or to give his lantern lecture 
 A\dierever it can be arranged for. Application to be made 
 to him at the Office of the Mission to Lepers, 186, Aldersgate 
 Street, E.C., ivhere contributions may also be sent. 
 
 Our Clapham Auxiliary. 
 
 While speaking of London we ought to mention the 
 formation of a new Auxiliary in Clapham. 
 
 Interest was first awakened there about two years ago in 
 Lillieshall Mission Eoom. A few very poor people, hearing 
 of the lepers, began giving a halfpenny a week each in 
 order to be able to support a child in one of our Homes, 
 the sum required being £4, and from this very humble 
 beginning, interest has grown until an Auxiliary has been 
 formed, the aim of Avhich is to secure £100 a year to the 
 funds of the Society. 
 
 Appointment of an Hon. Sec. for the 
 South of Ireland. 
 
 Another event of importance, and one that we trust will 
 prove of much benefit to the Society, is the appointment of 
 INIr. Thos. A. Bailey, brother to our Secretary and Super¬ 
 intendent, to be Honorary Secretary for the South of Ireland. 
 Mr. Thos. Bailey’s address is Y. M. C. A., Cork. 
 
 Work Parties. 
 
 We thank most heartily all the kind friends who have 
 helped in this department. We fear, however, it may cause 
 a little disappointment to many when we say that this 
 branch of the work has not proved the success that we had 
 hoped for, and we feel that our best plan is to state plainly 
 our difficulties. To begin with, it does not pay. The 
 expenses connected with the sending out of the work, the 
 duty on articles on their arrival in India, and the cost of 
 the inland transit, are very considerable. 
 
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 Great difficulty is experienced in getting the needed 
 number of any one special garment for any given place, 
 while very often the garments are not shaped aright accord¬ 
 ing to the notions of the people in India, or may not be of 
 the right material. If there are not enough of one kind, 
 then another kind has to be supplied locally, which often 
 causes disappointment and jealousy. The time taken up in 
 correspondence and in despatching goods is very considerable. 
 Taking all these things into consideration, we have been 
 reluctantly obliged to come to the decision that, after this 
 year, it would be better not to continue this department. 
 Of course this will not preclude individual and private 
 effort to supply any one place with a certain kind of clothing, 
 but then we would ask our friends of the Work Parties to 
 undertake the despatching of the goods and all expenses 
 connected therewith. We trust those kind friends who 
 have helped us in this direction before will not think us 
 ungrateful, but will believe that we are trying to do what 
 will be best for the Society. We are writing to all our 
 agents to see that the Lepers under their care do not want 
 for clothes, and we shall be thankful for any contributions 
 in money that may be sent for this purpose. 
 
 European Leper Home Fund. 
 
 The fund at the disposal of the Committee for this 
 purpose is now £554 8s. 6d., of which sum Canada has 
 contributed a large share. Most of our Canadian friends 
 wish their contributions to go to this fund for the future. 
 
 We are earnestly seeking guidance about beginning the 
 work. 
 
 As far as we can ascertain at present it would seem that 
 it may be best to begin in a very small way at two or three 
 different centres, where there seems to be special need. We 
 might perhaps begin it in each place by opening a small 
 ward for, say, half a dozen patients. 
 
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 One of our kind workers in the Panjab, a medical 
 missionary, has recently been asked to take in two Euro¬ 
 peans, and in one case payment was promised if he would 
 accommodate the sufferer. Payment would have probably 
 been forthcoming in the other case too. The Kev. G. M. 
 Bulloch, of Almora, has also been asked to receive Europeans. 
 
 We are in correspondence about this matter, and hope we 
 may be able to report something definite next year. 
 
 New Work. 
 
 Under this heading last year we wrote that we were 
 commencing work at Hiao Kan, Hankow. We are now 
 thankful to be able to state that our new hospital has been 
 built, and was to be opened in March, 1895. It is. Dr. 
 Walton says, “The first Leper Home in this great teeming 
 district.” 
 
 We also stated that we were putting up a small hospital 
 at Codacall in Southern India, which was to have been 
 under the care of Dr. Liebendoerfer. Since then, however, 
 our plans have been changed, as the Government Leper 
 Asylum at Calicut has been made over to us, and it was 
 thought better to work it thoroughly than to begin anything 
 new at Codacall. Dr. Liebendoerfer, of the Basel Mission, 
 is in charge. 
 
 Our new Home at Eoha (to be called “ Best ”) is now 
 being built. It ought to have been ready before, but we 
 experienced great difficulties in getting a site. For the 
 present we have temporary huts at Poladpore. 
 
 The First Protestant Leper Home in Japan was opened at 
 Tokio on the 13th of October. It is under the management 
 of a native Kozensha, is superintended by Miss Youngman, 
 of the American Presbyterian Mission, and is subsidised by 
 us to the extent of £100 a year. 
 
 We are putting a small Hospital for Lepers at Kalimpong, 
 Darjeeling, to be in charge of Dr. Ponder, medical missionary 
 of the Church of Scotland. 
 
Leper Beggars at Shway Dagohn PagoOa, Rangoon. 
 
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 Rangoon. 
 
 We are happy to be able to state that Ave are in communi- 
 tion with friends in Rangoon with a view to commencing a 
 Home for lepers there. As yet nothing has been done for 
 the numerous sufferers, and their condition is very terrible. 
 A glance at the picture which we give of a group of lepers 
 as found on the steps of the Great Pagoda will give our 
 readers a little idea of the condition of things. Roughly 
 speaking we estimate that it Avill cost about £500 to get 
 work started in a small way, of which sum we have £170 
 in hand, so that we shall need £330 more as soon as possible. 
 And then for annual upkeep we shall need at least £300 a 
 year. Contributions sent specially for this Avork should be 
 so specified. 
 
 Change in the size of the Report. 
 
 For a long time it has been thought that the small size 
 of our report Avas out of keeping A\dth the importance of the 
 . Avork, and as our operations have noAV become so extended 
 and our work so very important, Ave have decided that the 
 time has come for a change. We think too that a few 
 illustrations Avill be considered an improvement; and we 
 believe that business men Avill be glad of having the Report 
 and List of Contributions in one. We intend to have some 
 copies of the Report bound up with the List of Contributions 
 and Accounts, and some made up separately, sending the 
 former to subscribers only. 
 
 Conclusion. 
 
 Once again Ave return our grateful thanks to all who have 
 helped us in any way and who are thus sharers in our joy. 
 We thank all Avho have contributed to our funds and all 
 who have collected money for us. We thank all the 
 Auxiliaries both at Home and in Canada. And above all 
 Ave thank very very heartily all the missionaries, men and 
 women, who so ungrudgingly give their time and strength 
 to minister to the poor lepers. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
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 FIELD OF OPERATIONS: 
 
 INDIA, BURMA, CEYLON, CHINA, AND JAPAN. 
 
 Churches and Societies in connection 
 with which we work. 
 
 Alnerican Board of Foreign 
 Missions. 
 
 American Methodist Episcopal. 
 American Presbyterian. 
 American United Presbyterian. 
 Baptist Missionary Society. 
 Basel Missionary Society. 
 Church Missionary Society. 
 Church of Scotland. 
 
 Foreign Christian Missionarj' 
 Society. 
 
 Free Church of Scotland. 
 Friends’ Foreign Missionary 
 Society. 
 
 Gossner’s Evangelical Lutheran 
 Mission. 
 
 London Missionary Society. 
 Reformed Presbyterian. 
 
 Wesleyan Missionary Society. 
 
 Stations. 
 
 INDIA, BURMA, CEYLON. 
 
 Ajmir, Rajputana. 
 Allahabad, N.W.P. 
 Alleppey, Travancore. 
 Almora, N.W.P. 
 Ambala, Panjab. 
 Asansol, Bengal. 
 
 Baba Lakhan, Sialkote, 
 Panjab. 
 
 Bhagulpore, Bengal. 
 Calcutta. 
 
 Calicut, Malabar Coast. 
 
 Chamba, Panjab. 
 
 Chandag, Pithoragarh, N.W.P. 
 Colombo, Ceylon. 
 
 Dehra, N.W.P. 
 
 Dharmsala, Panjab. 
 Kalimpong, Darjeeling. 
 Lohardugga, Bengal. 
 
 Madras. 
 
 Mandalay, Burma. 
 
 Mangalore, Malabar Coast. 
 Moradabad, N.W.P. 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
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 Muzaifarnagar, N.W.P. 
 Neyoor, Travancore. 
 Poladpore, Kolaba District. 
 Purulia, Bengal. 
 
 Eaniganj, Bengal. 
 
 Rawal Pindi, Panjab. 
 
 CHINA 
 
 Hangchow, Che-kiang. 
 
 Hiao Kan, Hankow. 
 
 Kien King Fu, Fuh-Kien. 
 
 Eoha, Kolaba District. 
 Rurki, N.W.P. 
 Sabatliu, Panjab. 
 Saharanpore, Panjab. 
 Sehore, Bhopal. 
 
 Tarn Taran, Panjab. 
 
 AND JAPAN. 
 
 Kucheng, Fuh-Kien. 
 Lo Nguong, Fuh-Kien. 
 Pakhoi, South China, 
 kio, Japan. 
 
 10 in all. 
 
 Asylums or Hospitals of our own. 
 INDIA AND BURMA. 
 
 Alle 2 Ji»ey, Travancore. 
 Asansol, Bengal. 
 Bhagulj)ore, Bengal. 
 Calicut, Malabar Coast. 
 Chandag, Pithoragarh. 
 
 * Kalimiiong, Darjeeling. 
 Lohardugga, Bengal. 
 
 * Buildings in 
 
 Mandalay, Uji^ier Burma. 
 Mangalore, Malabar Coast. 
 Neyoor, Travancore. 
 
 Purulia, Bengal. 
 
 Eaniganj, Bengal. 
 
 * Eoha and Poladpore, Kolaba 
 District. 
 
 nse of construction. 
 
 CHINA. 
 
 Hcingchow, Che-Kiang. | Hiao Kan, Hankow. 
 
 Kucheng, Fuh-Kien. 
 
 17 in all. 
 
 Homes for the Untainted Children of Lepers. 
 
 Almora, N.W.P. 
 Asansol, Bengal. 
 Lohardugga, Bengal. 
 Neyoor, Travancore. 
 
 Purulia, Bengal. 
 
 Eaniganj, Bengal. 
 
 Tarn Taran, Panjab. 
 Hanchow, Che-kiang, China. 
 
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 Aided Institutions. 
 
 Allahabad, N.W.P. (Nynee 
 Asylum). 
 
 Almora, N.W.P. 
 
 Ambala, Panjab. 
 
 Chamba, Panjali. 
 
 Debra, N.AV.P. (MacLaren 
 Leper Asylum). 
 
 Moradabad, N.W.P. 
 Eurki, N.W.P. 
 Sabathu, Panjab. 
 Sabaranpore, N.W.P. 
 Pakhoi, South China. 
 Tokio, Japan, 
 
 11 in all. 
 
 Places Open to us for Christian Instruction. 
 
 Ajmir, Eajputana. 
 
 Baba Lakhan, Sialkote, 
 Panjab. 
 
 Calcutta. 
 
 Colombo. 
 
 Dharmsala, Panjab, 
 
 Madras. 
 
 Muzaffarnagar, N.W.P, 
 Rawal Pindi, Panjab. 
 Sebore, Bhopal. 
 
 *Tarn Taran, Panjab. 
 Kien Ning Fu, China. 
 
 Lo Nguong, China. 
 
 * There is also a Children’s Home here. 
 
 The number of inmates in the Society’s Homes—adults and 
 children—is nearly eight hundred, or including those in aided 
 Institutions, about fifteen hundred. 
 
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 INDIA. 
 
 —♦— 
 
 Extracts from Rev. G. M. Bulloch’s Report. 
 
 SEHORE (bHOPAl). 
 
 “ When I readied Sehore I was right royally welcomed 
 by the missionaries of the Friends’ Foreign Mission. The 
 Institution is entirely maintained by the Begum of Bhopal. 
 At present there are fifty-eight in residence. Permission is 
 given to Hindu Mohammedan and Christian teachers to visit 
 the Home, and give instructions to inmates; but as for Hindus 
 or Mohammedans, only on one occasion has a Mohammedan 
 come to give any religious instruction, whereas a good deal 
 of interest has been shown by the members of the Friends’ 
 Foreign Mission, and frequent visits made by the mission¬ 
 aries, and latterly a catechist and his wife (Hukm Chand 
 and Chandri) have been set apart for this special work, a 
 grant being given by the Mission to Lepers. There are at 
 present six of the lepers who have made their profession 
 of faith in Christ, three having come out only -recently. 
 Another who had confessed Christ died a month or so ago, 
 rejoicing in the hope of the Gospel. Daula is the first 
 convert obtained as the result of the Christian labours in 
 the Home, aqd it is quite a pleasure to see the hearty way 
 in which he sang the Christian hymns he had learned. He 
 seemed to throw his whole soul into them, and urge the 
 others to sing up more lustily. Babar, another of the 
 converts, has been very helpful in leading the three who 
 had come out recently to make a confession of their faith 
 in Christ. It was rather sad to see him, poor fellow ! for 
 
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 he must have been a strong, manly fellow once, but now 
 sadly disfigured, and shorn of much of his strength. Still, 
 it is a joy to know that he has been led to Jesus, and finds 
 in Him the strength of his salvation.” 
 
 ASANSOL (Bengal). 
 
 “ The Asylum here is known by the Bengali name of 
 Christaram (Christ’s Rest), so-called after a leper who Avas 
 brought to Christ at Purulia Asylum, and Avho took the 
 name at his baptism. This man afterwards died a trium¬ 
 phant death. Of the sixty-five inmates twenty-nine are 
 Christians, and one of these acts as cook for the Avhole 
 establishment, a plan Avhich seems to Avork admirably, and 
 one Avhich I have not found anyAvhere else, Anando Kumar, 
 a healthy Christian trained in the Institute at Purulia, came 
 here a year ago to become the caretaker. He is Amry much 
 interested in his Avork, and seems to do it very successfully, 
 and altogether to the satisfaction of Mr. and Mrs. Byers, 
 missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, Avho give 
 a good deal of earnest, careful oversight to the place, and 
 are warmly devoted to the Avork. 
 
 “ There are three very interesting leper girls amongst the 
 inmates, of ages ranging from nine to twelve—Lucy, Sarda, 
 and Phulmani. How it distresses one’s heart to see these 
 dear suffering bairns, and hoAV glad one is to knoAv that they 
 are in the way to learn of Jesus and His love for the 
 children ! But they are a very small number of those Avho 
 are yet outside, and need to be brought to the Saviour. 
 The disease of leprosy is very prevalent in the district, and 
 there must be many to Avhom such a Home would be Christ’s 
 Rest, and we would that they were all gathered in, and 
 folded in the arms of Christian love. Oh, ye Avho are 
 Christ’s disciples, stretch out your arms and gather in the 
 lambs, and comfort and cheer them, and lovingly, patiently, 
 tenderly carry them to Jesus ! ” 
 
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 PURULIA (BENGAL). 
 
 “ I spent the greater part of two days here, and received a 
 right royal reception. The entrance to the Asylum Avas 
 decorated with floral wreaths, ' welcome ’ floating in the air 
 from numerous banners, and the avenues lined with many 
 coloured flags. About seventy of the more healthy of the 
 inmates met me with hymns of welcome, which they sang 
 most heartily. It was deeply affecting to listen to their 
 continuous greetings of ‘ Yesu Sahay ’ (‘Jesus be your 
 helper’). Xo such sight is to be seen anyAvhere else in 
 India. Three hundred lepers, all Christians, full of peace 
 and joy, notwithstanding their sorry plight, singing the 
 praises of God, and thanking Him that through their 
 sufferings they have been led to Him, and have found in 
 Jesus a friend and Saviour. Surely it would have stirred 
 the hearts of Christian sympathisers in England had they 
 been able to stand with me in the little chapel crammed full 
 to the doors with upwards of 300 Christian lepers, thanking 
 God that He had put it into the hearts of the disciples of 
 Jesus to try and alleviate their sufferings, and bring them 
 to Him. I shall never forget the sight, and thank God that 
 I have been blessed with such a privilege. It simply went 
 through my soul, and tuned it to higher heavenly music, 
 Avhen I stood there in the midst of that church among the 
 lepers, and heard them sing so heartily their lyrics to 
 Bengali tunes, with the accompaniment of their own home 
 instruments of music. And then the delightful responses 
 that many of them offered when something in the addresses 
 we gave touched a chord in their hearts. I cannot doubt 
 that many a minister in England would rejoice with joy 
 unspeakable if he could but have such an experience among 
 his people as I had amongst these dear Christian lepers, 
 which Mr. Uffmann has been privileged to see brought into 
 
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 the kingdom through his loving, constant, painstaking efforts 
 on their behalf.” 
 
 RANiGANj (Bengal). 
 
 “The Asylum here is under the care of the Eev. F. W. 
 Ambery Smith, of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and 
 has been in existence for only three or four years, and yet 
 during that time much has been done in providing for the 
 comfortable housing and care of those lepers who are willing 
 to come and be cared for. The Asylum stands in a large open 
 grant of land kindly given by the Bengal Coal Company. 
 
 “ There were thirty-four inmates at the time of my visit, 
 twenty-three men and eleven women; of the total number 
 thirty were Christians. For these divine service is at present 
 held in the verandah of one of the barracks, but I saw the 
 foundations marked out for a new chapel, as also for two 
 more barracks. Bricks for these buildings were in process 
 of manufacture on the ground, the clay being taken from 
 the adjoining tank. There is much need for these extensions. 
 Several lepers who had come seeking shelter lately had gone 
 away again through the want of proper accommodation, 
 having had to associate with dying fellow-sufferers in 
 the same room, which is a terrible ordeal even for a leper. 
 It is hoped that the two new barracks wiU be up this 
 season. 
 
 “Amongst the inmates I noticed specially a young girl 
 of about fourteen years of age, called Giri Bala, who has 
 been suffering for about one year. She is a Christian, and 
 spoken of as a nice child ; but hpw sad it is to think of her 
 young life thus smitten, and so it is a joy to know that she 
 has learned to look to Jesus for comfort, such as no human 
 hand can give her.” 
 
 CALCUTTA. 
 
 “At the Albert Victor Leper Asylum, a local charity, I 
 found 103 inmates, ten of whom were Europeans or 
 
I.eiier Asyhnn, Piiruiia, Bengal, in charge ol' the Rev. II. Uff.m.vnx, Gossuer'-s Bis.siDii. 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
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 Eurasians and eight native Christians. It Avas a sorry sight, 
 especially to see those of European descent, amongst whom 
 was a lad called W. M., about tAvelve or thirteen j^ears of 
 age. So early stricken Avith the disease, and so little hope 
 of recovery, yet otherwise fairly robust in health, one could 
 not help being draAvn toAvards him, and Avishing that one 
 could do something for him. He had little or nothing to 
 do, and apparently no interest in life, Avithout hope, and 
 Avithout inspiration of any sort, forsaken of father and 
 mother, he seemed to be sinking, not only under the 
 deadening influence of the disease, but also of the numbing 
 influence of being unoccupied. Another of the cases Avas 
 
 a Mr.--, who had once occupied a position of considerable 
 
 comfort and influence, but Avas iioav fretting because he had 
 to associate with felloAV-sufferers, both nati\"e and European. 
 Two of the Avomen — one an IrishAvoman and the other 
 a German—that I ^aw looked Amry ill and terribly discon¬ 
 solate, so very different to numbers of similarly afflicted 
 ones I have seen amongst the natives, Avho have received 
 into their hearts the hope of the Gospel. 
 
 “ ]Mr. Stark, of the Church IMissionaiy Society, very kindly 
 accompanied me on my visit to the Asylum, and told me a 
 great deal of the history of some of the patients. He has 
 a catechist, ah agent of the Mission to Lepers, Avho regularly 
 conducts services in a little chapel which stands in the 
 midst of the buildings occupied by the lepers. 
 
 {Signed) “G. M. Lulloch.” 
 
 AJMIR. 
 
 Last year Ave had the first report from this station, when 
 the Kev. C. W. de Souza began Avork there, encouraged by 
 the promise of an annual grant of £20, AAdrich is being 
 provided by kind friends in Belfast. The folloAving is an 
 extract from one of Mr. de Souza’s letters: “ One very 
 painful yet interesting incident occurred this year. Many 
 
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18 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 years ago, wlien I was first labouring in Eajputana, I had a 
 servant, a Mahominedan, Avho Avas very useful and faithful. 
 Years went by, and I used to think of him occasionally, 
 Avhen to my horror and surprise the poor fellow met me on 
 one of the public roads a few months ago, and I saw that 
 he was a leper 1 I felt very much at seeing him in such a 
 condition, and questioned him about himself. He could 
 giA'e me no definite account of how the disease came upon 
 him; but here he is, and I have met him several times 
 .since, and spoken Avith him, and his heart seems touched. 
 He said to me, ‘ Sahib, all other people despise me, but you 
 do not seem to liaAm any loathing for me; it must be that 
 you are a padri sahib (missionary).’ 
 
 “Hoav about your further ofi'er of assistance in this AAmrk. 
 Could you take over the- support of my poor old bearer at 
 the rate usually alloAved by your Society for-each indiA'idual ? 
 I think he will soon become a Christian. If in addition to 
 his support 3 mu could send me something for medicines and 
 clothes, and a small supply of food for distribution occa- 
 sionall}" to those lepers already reached by us, it Avill be a 
 great help.” ' 
 
 ALLAHABAD. 
 
 “ The Leper Asylum,” saj^s the Eev. W. F. Johnson, D.l)., of 
 ithe American PresbjTerian Mission, “is still under my care. 
 But I am sorr}" to saj^ that quite a number of my visits this 
 A'ear haAm been sad ones, to visit the sick and djdng, and to 
 bury the dead. Their surroundings are better, quite com¬ 
 modious, and cleaner than the ordinary Hindu village; and 
 yet the rate of mortality among them is very high. I 
 .suppose this is to be expected from the nature of their 
 disease, and from the fact that most of those noAV in the 
 Asj’lum haAm been there for }mars; and as lepers are rarely 
 long-lived, we must expect them to be dropping off. Still 
 it is sad to see those in whom Ave have become interested, 
 
THE LEEERS IX INDIA AXD THE EAST, 1& 
 
 and especially the Christians among them, passing away. 
 Two or three of the Christian lepers have died this year, in 
 one case leaving an interesting orphan child. It is very 
 puzzling to know what to do with this little one. 
 
 “The conduct of the lepers, especially of the Christians 
 among them, is very good. One of my assistants, who acts 
 as their chaplain, draws quite a contrast between them and 
 the inmates of the Blind Asylum, to the disadvantage of the 
 latter. Indeed the unfailing patience and cheerfuhie.ss of 
 the lepers is a constant source of wonder to me. They were 
 very glad lately to have a visit from Dr. Lucas, who u.sed to 
 he so kind to them. He spent a few days with me before 
 taking up work as a Professor in the Theological School at 
 Saharanpore. 
 
 “ There are now,” he adds in a later letter, “ forty-eight 
 persons in the Asylum j viz., thirty-three men, eight women, 
 and seven children (mostly quite small). Of Christian 
 communicants there are now four men and three women.” 
 
 ALLEPPEY. 
 
 Regarding the new wing for this Asylum, spoken of in 
 last Report, the Rev. C. A. ISTeve, C.M.S., writes; “I had 
 hoped to he able to report the completion of the new 
 buildings before writing to you; and in fact, with the 
 exception of the floors, it is all finished, and I think satis¬ 
 factorily. With very slight alterations it is a counterpart of 
 the other block, and contains six more rooms for twelve 
 inmates. Before, however, we can use it, cots will have to 
 he provided. I have written to the Dewan applying for an 
 additional grant from the Sirkar. The cost for each inmate 
 for food, clothing, and medicines is about 5 rupees. 
 
 “The instruction in the simple truths of Christianity,” 
 Mr, Heve tells us, “goes on regularly, and they all, Christians 
 and heathen, seem interested, and answer questions well 
 
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 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 I visit the Asylum is^lien in Alleppey at least twice a week, 
 often more. I feel some hesitation in pressing baptism on 
 the heathen inmates. I think it wiser to present the 
 teaching of our Lord on the subject, and wait rather for 
 their own request to he baptised. If they are really in 
 earnest, surely God will lead them to see that they ought to 
 obey His commands, and he baptised; and they will come 
 forward, not because the sahib asks them, hut because God 
 has called them.” 
 
 ALMORA. 
 
 During the absence of the Rev. G. M. Bulloch in England, 
 his colleague, the Rev. E. S. Oakley, of the L.M.S., has 
 had charge of the Leper Asylum. IMr. Oakley has visited 
 the Asylum regularly, and has written to us several times 
 telling of his interest in the work. There has been great 
 cause for grief owing to the fall of some of the Christian 
 lepers. These have, however, returned, have confessed their 
 sin, and asked forgiveness, and seem to he now truly penitent. 
 Of some of the special inmates known to friends at home 
 ]\fr. Oakley speaks as follows : ‘Hlimua* is still going about, 
 but is weaker than he was; the disease is taking its sad 
 course. However, he keeps up the habit of prayer, attends 
 the services, and does his best, waiting for the Lord’s good 
 pleasure to take him away. Kamalua has severe wounds in 
 his hands and feet, and he too is evidently growing worse, 
 but says that he loves the Lord Jesus, and is seeking to 
 prepare his soul for the great change, and thanks all ivho 
 have been kind to him. Bilmati, I see from my notes, does 
 not make any progress towards recovery; her feet and limbs 
 are very much swollen. But she wears a happy and con¬ 
 tented expression, and tells me with a smile that she loves 
 the Lord Jesus, and thanks her kind friends in England.” 
 
 Speaking of a leper child named Dimati, Mr. Oakley 
 
 * We have since had a touching account of Himua’s death. 
 
THE LEPEKS IX INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 21 
 
 says : “ She has been a leper about seven years—half of her 
 poor little life. She was baptised two years ago. Her feet 
 and hands are disfigured somewhat, but her face is still 
 untouched by the disease, and she is a cheerful-looking, 
 amiable child. Those who live near her say she prays 
 daily, and is very sincere and devout.” 
 
 Siieaking of Mr. Bulloch’s return to the work, Mr. Oakley 
 writes: “The Asylum work has been a pleasure, often a 
 deep joy to me, and I shall always take a waim interest in 
 this part of our work, and pray for its true success.” 
 
 He says in another letter : “ We had a baptismal service, 
 when seven lepers (six men and one woman) received 
 baptism. I have been pleased with the way they have 
 learnt the Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer, the Beatitudes, 
 and other portions of Scripture—by ear—for, poor souls, 
 none of them can read. They have shown a decided wish 
 to become followers of Christ, and to learn of Him; but 
 naturally they have very scanty knowledge. Still I trust 
 they have faith, and are looking to Jesus, who will lead 
 them onward. May they indeed ‘ follow on to know the 
 Lord,’ and day by day ‘ grow in grace and in the knowledge 
 of the Lord Jesus Christ.’ One of them was Kiru, who is 
 supported by kind friends at home. He has been for some 
 two or three years in the Asylum, but until now has shown 
 no wish to become a Christian. He is, I think, the best 
 and most intelligent of the number, and gave ver}'" pleasing- 
 evidence of thoughtfulness and intelligent belief on those 
 occasions when I questioned him. His kind friends will be 
 glad to hear of this. At the same time five men were 
 received into Church membership.” 
 
 Our Christian caretaker, Mr. Bond, has been, as usual, 
 very earnest in his loving attendance on the lepers, and has 
 sent us several interesting notes from the lepers themselves, 
 which unfortunately our space does not admit of our 
 printing here. 
 
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 THE LEPERS IX INDIA AND THE EAST, 
 
 AMBALA. 
 
 CUd Eattia, tidings of whose death were given in last 
 Eeport, is much missed here. The Rev. B. D. Wyckoft’, of 
 the American Presbyterian Mission, says, “The women, I 
 am thankful to say, are doing the singing in the Asylum 
 almost as well as Rattia did, hut I miss his prayers very 
 much.’* 
 
 Speaking of Marcus, the Christian teacher here, himself 
 a leper, Miss Lily Wyckoff writes to Mr. Bailey : “I should 
 like to tell all I know about Marcus. He is about twenty, 
 perhaps a little more. His parents are Christians, and he 
 was Ixiptised when a child at Almora. He was sent down 
 here at Miss Carleton’s request to teach a class of lepers in 
 this Asylum. 
 
 sent for him just now, and got him to tell us about 
 liimself. He came looking so neat and clean—as he always 
 is. He saj'sTie likes Ambala, and he told us about having 
 to give up trying to teach the lepers to read, for there are 
 only old ones left in the Asylum, at least too old to learn. 
 The younger ones have died or gone away, and we often 
 wonder if it is not very lonely for Marcus. He always 
 looks sad, but he knows to whom to go for comfort. The 
 disease has onl}’’ attacked his hands, and he always keeps 
 them covered. He reads the Hindi, Persian, and Roman 
 characters. He has just learned the Persian, and Miss 
 Pratt gave him the ‘ Imitation of Christ ’ in that character 
 as his prize, and one of the ladies who has joined our 
 Y.AV.C.A. gave him a coat which she has made for him. 
 He looked very pleased, and it was delightful to see 
 him happy. Miss Pratt has given him some flower seeds, 
 and he has made a little garden at the back of his house. 
 He enjoys very much watching his flowers.” 
 
THE LEPERS IX IXDIA AXU THE EAST. 
 
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 BABA LA KHAN. 
 
 The following is from the Rev. S. Martin, D.!)., of the 
 American United Presbyterian Mission: “I have nothing 
 ■special to report. There was one man who appeared to b-* 
 ready to confess Clirist, but for some reasons he has held 
 back. They have their connections and hindrances just as 
 sithers have. It seems sometimes as though it were the 
 case, that the loss one has of this ATorld, the harder it is t') 
 give it up. We have visited the Asylum when on tour, and 
 find that the people listen; but it seems to be the case with 
 some that the mind is not so active as it would be if the 
 body Avere sound. The hopelessness as to a cure for the 
 body renders them apathetic as to anything concerning 
 themselves. This is not ahvays the case, hoAvever, as Ave 
 find some aaRo are keen enough in Avorldly matters.” 
 
 Again, a liftle later : “ The Avork in the Asylum has been 
 kept up regularly during the past season. I have a Avorker 
 Avho, Avith his Avife, is expected to give his Avhole time 
 to the lepers. When Ave last visited the place they were 
 interested in their Avork, and we have hopes that the visits 
 of the Avorker’s Avife Avill enable us to do more among the 
 women. We had thought of trying the plan of getting 
 .-a Christian leper from some other Asylum, who could live 
 in their midst, and be able to do much more than one from 
 the outside; but the difficulty Avill ^be to find one altogether 
 •satisfactory.” 
 
 BHAGULPORE. 
 
 One and another is seeking baptism in this Asylum. “ I 
 have been cheered,” Avrites the Rev. J. A. Cullen, C.M.S., 
 by another baptism in the Asylum on Sunday Aveek. The 
 poor felloAv is a dreadful object to look upon, yet I believe 
 lie is one of Christ’s OAvn people. He made a good con- 
 
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 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 fession at his baptism. It was a most solemn time for all of 
 us. One felt there waa much searching of hearts going on 
 amongst the non-Christians. 
 
 ‘‘For one man I would ask special prayer. He is a high- 
 class man, fairly well educated. He is fully convinced, hut 
 yet he says he knows his ‘ heart is not changed.’ 
 
 “There is another poor fellow who wants baptism, but he 
 is, I fear, not (piite right in his head, and utterly incapable 
 of learning anything. He says, ‘ Mujh ko ane na kare ’ (‘ It 
 does not come to me ’). What would you do in such a 
 oa.or- 
 
 CALICUT. 
 
 Matters have in this place taken a somewhat unlooked-for 
 turn. Friends may remember that in last Eeport it was 
 proposed to commence work at Codacall, building there a 
 small Asylum, and sending only a Catechist to the 
 Government Asylum at Calicut. Meantime, however, the 
 Municipality of Calicut, being out of funds, resolved to 
 abolish their Asylum; and it became evident to Dr. 
 Liebendoerfer that his best plan was to apply for the 
 building, with its 25 patients, Calicut being both more 
 central and more convenient for himself. The Council 
 agreed to his proposal, and also to pay a yearly subscription 
 of Es. 200. 
 
 He writes as follows: “ The lepers in Calicut are ex¬ 
 tremely pleased with the prospect of my taking charge of 
 them, for thej'’ are in every respect in a most miserable and 
 wretched state, as, in fact, nobody looks after them or cares 
 for them. AVith the Lord’s blessing I hope to make this- 
 Asylum more and more comfortable for these poor people, 
 and to do as much as possible towards relieving both their 
 souls and bodies from sorrow and pain. I only hope that 
 you also will be satisfied with the turn things have taken in 
 Calicut. It will certainly be to the glory of God.” 
 
THE LEPEFvS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 25 
 
 Again in May: “ Since I wrote niy last letter, the 
 sanction of Government to the proposal of the Calicut 
 Municipality to give over their Asylum to our Medical 
 l\Iission has arrived. The building will be our property as 
 long as we are willing to carry on the INIission work to the 
 lepers ; but I am sorry to say it is in such a state that 
 several repairs are immediately reciuired. The nundjcr of 
 in-patients is at present 25, but I am not bound to have as 
 many as these. The yearly expense for the maintenance 
 of the lepers, the establishment, medicines, &c., will not be 
 less than Rs. 1200 ; 200 has been promised by the Munici¬ 
 pality, 100 to 200 I hope to secure by local subscription; 
 for the rest—900—I Avould be extremely thankful to you. 
 
 If you are not in a position to sanction such a large amount 
 per annum, I can reduce the number of patients, although I • 
 think it would be a pity, considering that there are so many 
 lepers in the town and district. I am very glad indeed to 
 be able to do something for these poor people, but without 
 your kind assistance I am helpless. May the dear Lord 
 grant your Society the necessary means to assist me in 
 carrying on this most blessed work in Calicut for His 
 glorious name’s sake.” 
 
 Dr. Liebendoerfer again writes : “ We have three Chris¬ 
 tians, and I am very glad to say that last Sunday we had 
 the great pleasure of adding three more to their number by 
 baptism—two men and one woman. Daily they have been 
 instructed in the Scriptures, and they were longing to 
 become children of God. In the presence of several other 
 missionaries, we baptised them in the Asylum in the midst 
 of their fellow-sufferers, and we all felt the presence of the 
 Lord when these poor people joyfully confessed their faitln 
 May the Lord bless them, and through them all the other 
 inmates.” 
 
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 THE LEPERS IX INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 CHAMBA. 
 
 The Rev. W. Walker, of the Church of Scotland, left for 
 home early in the year, and has been succeeded by Dr. 
 Hutchison, a medical missionary of the same Church. Dr. 
 Hutchison formerly spent many years in Chamba, and 
 knows the people well; being a medical man, as Avell as an 
 earnest missionary, he Avill be able to do a great deal for the 
 lepers. Before leaving, Mr. Walker baptised two more 
 inmates of the Asylum. He writes : “ I am glad to be able 
 to tell ,you that I have been privileged to baptise two more 
 lepers in the Asylum. The one is a man called Sarda, a shoe¬ 
 maker from Mahla, who has been in the Asylum for a year 
 and four months, and from his appearance is about 40 years 
 of age. Both are supported by the State. They are and 
 have been very (j^uiet and respectable since they have 
 entered the Asylum, and have been regular listeners to the 
 preaching of the Gospel. The younger of the tAvo has begun 
 to read.” 
 
 The folloAving letters—one from the male lepers to Mr. 
 Bailey, the other from the females to Mrs. Bailey—Avill be 
 read with interest: 
 
 “ Respected Sir,—I, Xares, write this letter for the lepers who 
 live in the Chamba Asylum. IMay the Lord Jesus Christ bless you 
 and give you long life, and give to your whole family His Holy Spirit 
 to glorify His name. Here in the Asjdum Ave are six Christians. Five 
 of us can read those portions of the Xerv Testament which are trans¬ 
 lated into Chamba language, and one of us is reading the first book, 
 but hopes he Avill soon learn, and Avill be able to read the holy words 
 of our Saviour. "We heartily thank you for the prayers you offer for 
 us day and night, and no doubt your prayers are heard ; and Ave dare 
 say that by your prayers our Saviour has changed our hearts, and 
 brought us out of those people who have no hope of their future life. 
 Although this Avorld, and eA'en our relatives, drove us out on account 
 of our disease, we are not sorry at all, for noAV we are quite happy and 
 joyful since Ave have come to knoAV our Saviour’s love, Avho came into 
 
THE LEPERS IX IXDIA AXD THE EAST. 
 
 27 
 
 this world for sinners like ns. Now we are (luite happy to leave this 
 world tor onr blessed home, and to go into Abraham’s arms for eternal 
 joy. Now we ask yon to pray daily for onr brethren who are in this 
 state, that they may become Christians very soon. Now I close this 
 letter with onr best compliments to yonrself, and to all who help ns 
 with their daily prayers and money. 
 
 “ We ai’e yonrs most obediently, 
 
 “The Leper.s of CiiAMnA A.sylum.” 
 
 “Respected IMadam, —We are quite snre yon will be mnch 
 delighted with these onr few lines. We think that you are not 
 acquainted with us all, but we hope you remember Gamnu, who is one 
 of us, and who thinks of yon every now and then. You will be glad 
 to know that here we are eleven together. Five are Christians ; four 
 of us can read the New Testament in Chamba language ; three have 
 Ijegun to read. We always sing hymns, and then we often remember 
 you. Had you been here, you must have taught us plenty, but yet 
 we thank God we can sing a little for His glory. AVe thank you for 
 the prayers you offer for us every day. This is our daily prayer for 
 you and your family, that the Lord Jesus may bless you more and 
 more, and that your children may come here to bring in our brethren' 
 who are yet far away from the right path. We ask you to pray for 
 our rajah. Please remember us to those ladies who often think of us, 
 and help us with their prayers and money. We live here in great 
 comfort, and especially we are in great rest, because we know that 
 after leaving this world we .shall enter into the golden gates of heaven 
 above. 
 
 “ AA’’ith the greatest honour, we are j'ours most obedientl3q 
 
 “The Female Lepeils of the Chamba A.sylum.” 
 
 CHANDAG {PITHORAGARH). 
 
 Our friend, Miss Keed, writes in April of having attended 
 the Thull Mela, usually resorted to by a great throng of 
 worshippers, her object being to seek out and befriend those 
 afflicted with leprosy. “ I took,” she says, “ two boys and 
 two men from the Asylum to help me in looking for these 
 afflicted ones. My faithful servants too made a thorough 
 canvass of the croAvds to satisfy my heart that none would 
 be missed. Should Ave have found and brought in but one 
 I should have felt repaid for the journey and expense. . . . 
 
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 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 One of the four afflicted ones we brought home with us is 
 a little girl about nine years old—Gongali. One hand and 
 one foot are affected, and sadly need the treatment they Avilt 
 now receive. She had been cast out to beg her food, and 
 seemed homeless and friendless, though her mother is still 
 living. I met the mother, and talked with her at the Mela,, 
 and she seemed to care nothing for this poor little thing. 
 Since Gongali’s arrival she has undergone such a process of 
 scrubbing, combing, and dressing, she seems a different 
 creature, and is looking clean and bright; she is so pleased, 
 with her new friends and home ! ” 
 
 The following is from a letter written in June : “ Mr. 
 McMahon came to Chandag and held the Communion, 
 Service. He baptised a boy of fourteen or fifteen, who has. 
 recently been converted. Dr. Butcher, one of the presiding 
 Elders of our M. E. Mission from the Plains, accompanied 
 jMr. IMcMahon, and he gave our dear people a most thorough 
 catechetical examination, and said, ‘Well, I have examined 
 many preachers and teachers, and I never had such clear 
 and intelligent ansAvers as these people give.’ It was a day¬ 
 long to be remembered.” 
 
 Another letter tells us: “ There are at present sixty-four 
 inmates in the Asylum, of whom thirty are men, twenty-five 
 women, seven boys, and two girls. Of this number forty-nine- 
 are Christians. There have been two baptisms this year. 
 I do not ask or urge baptism; when hearts are made new, 
 and the Light of the Sun of Righteousness dawns, they, the 
 receivers of the ncAV hearts and the Light of Life, will ask. 
 for this rite. We hear from every direction that the many 
 all about us who ought to be here are not willing to come- 
 because of the Christian influence in the Asylum, and for 
 this reason our numbers are not increasing as rapidly as I 
 hoped they would. I Avant to spend much of my time in 
 the district, going out to ‘ call them in ’ as soon as the rains ■ 
 are over. May I request special prayer for those in the- 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 29 
 
 district, that their hearts may he turned to tliis Refuge 
 here, and that they all, without the loss of one wdio may 
 ■enter here, may find Christ and accept Him as their Saviour ^ 
 Pray that I may have tact, wisdom, and love, according to 
 my need, as I go out to urge them to come in.” 
 
 We give an extract from a letter written to Miss Reed 
 by Miss Sullivan, who has charge of the IM. E. IMission 
 Home for the Friendless, Lucknow. She writes: “ Our 
 hearts have been much grieved lately to find that one 
 young Eurasian girl, only about twelve or fourteen years 
 old, gives unquestionable evidence of having spotted leprosy. 
 She was sent to me some months ago from the Cawnpore 
 Girls’ School. The spots are increasmg rapidly. Slie is a 
 pretty, lovable, pleasant girl, an orphan, utterly friendless 
 except for our Mission. So my thoughts have turned to 
 you, and I wondered if you would not like to have her 
 with you.” 
 
 Arrangements were made to receive this poor child. 
 
 Miss Reed has been greatly grieved by the sad falling 
 away of some of the converts, but we are thankful to say 
 that most of the wrongdoers have been restored, having 
 expressed their sorrow and asked forgiveness. 
 
 COLOMBO. 
 
 The Rev. E. Waldock, of the Baptist IMissionary Society, 
 writes: “ In his brief report for last year your catechist 
 employed at Hendala Leper Asylum says that the Buddhists, 
 in order to counteract the influence of our school, had 
 opened another, and the Roman Catholics also, and conse¬ 
 quently ours had to be discontinued in October last. He 
 has gone on speaking to the patients personally by their 
 bedside, and has held a weekly service in the chapel. The 
 work is very difficult amidst so much opposition from 
 heathens and Papists, especially as the spirituality of our 
 teaching is not palatable to the unconverted man. However, 
 
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 THE LEPEES IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 lie thanks God, that by His grace some have come to knoiv 
 the Lord Jesus.” 
 
 Again, in September; “We have lately made a change. 
 The young man we have been employing having left to 
 become a student in preparation for Mission work, another 
 agent has been appointed. The former is a really worthy, 
 earnest, and spiritual young man; but I am inclined to hope 
 that our new man, who has had considerable experience in 
 evangelistic work, and is earnest and active, may succeed 
 better. As soon as we see how things go you shall hear 
 further.” 
 
 The Hendala Asylum is not under our control, but we are 
 allowed to carry on Christian work there. 
 
 DEHRA. 
 
 MacLaren Leper Asylum. 
 
 The following interesting extracts are from the report of 
 Mr. C. W. Jackson, manager of the Institution : 
 
 “ The past year has been a very successful one with us; 
 for at no period since the Institution was founded have we 
 had so many as 133 on our roll at one time, nor have we 
 ever been able to keep so many together for so long as to 
 enable us to reckon on a daily average for the year of 118.35. 
 We have never before in one year had so many as thirty-two 
 publicly renounce their idolatry, and profess their acceptance 
 of Christ and salvation through His blood as their only 
 hope. Quite this number have been baptised during the 
 past year— i.e. nineteen men and thirteen women. 
 
 “You will have noted that we had forty-four Christians 
 at the close of the year, that there were eleven deaths and 
 three departures, making thirty-eight Christians in all, or 
 more than fifty per cent, of the total number on the roll on 
 the 31st December. God grant that we may be as successful 
 during the year w^e have just entered, and that next year I 
 may be able to report that we have won all over to Christ. 
 
THK LEPER« IX INDIA AND THE EAST. 31 
 
 “I would Avish here to mention that I am A^ery often asked 
 by Ausitors to the Asylum as to AA’hether there is any essential 
 difiference in the general deineanonr of our Christians com¬ 
 pared A\^ith their heathen felloAv-sufferers. Xoav you Avill 
 alloAA" that among Christians aA' e liaA’e babes in Christ, youths 
 in Christ, and fathers in Christ. I do not profess for our 
 Christians that they, are capable of grasping tlie fact that 
 Christ is able to saA'e them not only from the guilt of sin, 
 / but also from the poAA^er of sin. You must remember that 
 Ai’e have to deal Avith very ignorant Hillmen, but I can 
 conscientiously affirm that there is a very A'ast difference in 
 the general conduct of a man after he becomes a Christian. 
 There may be a solitary black sheep—AA'here are they not to 
 be found ?—but after close observation for noAv oA^er four 
 years I can say that our Christians are a decided improve¬ 
 ment on their heathen comrades. They are always cleaner 
 and neater in their every-day appearance, more amenable 
 to discipline, ahvaj'S glad to be of service one to another in 
 cases of incapacity from sickness, and this the heathen 
 never are unless the man afflicted has a silver bangle or 
 some little coin to bestow on the chance of his death. 
 
 “During the year daily services have been held in the 
 little church provided by your mission, by Padiya, the 
 resident catechist. After service he holds school for such 
 as desire to be taught Hindi. In addition every Wednesdaj' 
 Mr. Uilmann visits Avith his .special pastor, Mr. Rallaram, 
 and conducts service. These services are greatly appre¬ 
 ciated. Pastor Bose too, Avho conducts the afternoon 
 Sunday services on behalf of your mission, is assiduous in 
 the discharge of his duties here, visiting frequently. He 
 could not labour more diligently. Padiya, the catechist, is 
 also deserving of every credit for his kindness in ministering 
 to the necessities of the poor.” 
 
 We are A^ery grateful to the Rev. J. F. Hllniann, of the 
 American Presbyterian IMission, for his kind attention to 
 the lepers. 
 
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 'raE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 DHARMSALA. 
 
 The widow of the Eev. C, G. Daeuhle, who has bravely 
 taken up tlie work of her beloved husband, after acknow¬ 
 ledging receipt of a cheque from our Mission, thus continues: 
 “ The work is carried on regularly by Mark, and when I go 
 up to Dharnisala I visit them too. I wish my dear late 
 husband’s heart’s desire could be fulfilled, and the Leper 
 Asylum could be taken over by the Mission, but as long as 
 I am alone here I cannot do it. We must pray to our 
 Heavenly Father that He will bring it about. At the end 
 of April I hope the two inquirers will have the joy of being 
 baptised. They desire it very much, as you will see in the 
 report which is being printed just now. Two Christians 
 have left the Asylum : one went to Chamba, the other to 
 Tarn Taran. They are cared for better there, as I believe 
 the Asylums are under the Mission. May the Lord give us 
 .soon that joy too.” 
 
 "We are thankful to report that the Eev. J. Tunbridge, of 
 the C. M. S., has now joined the Kangra Mission, and has 
 taken over charge of the work at the Leper Asylum : this 
 will relieve Mrs. Daeuble, who has taken up Zenana Avork. 
 Mr. Tunbridge writes : “I visited the Leper Asylum last 
 month, and found nine men and six women. One man Avas 
 suffering great agony at the time, and most seem in a sad 
 physical state. They are not lacking creature comforts, and 
 Ave add to their earthly pleasures a feAV presents as far as 
 Ave can. 
 
 “There Avere two Christians and one inquirer. We had 
 a nice little service Avith these poor outcasts, and assured 
 them of their preciousness in the great Father’s sight.” 
 
 Eabu Mark has also Avritten us, giving an account of his 
 visits. 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 33 
 
 LOHARDAGGA. 
 
 As mentioned in last report, the Rev. F. Hahn is on 
 furlough for his health. The Rev. 0. Gemsky is kindly 
 taking charge of this Asylum in his absence. We quote 
 the most of his interesting letter. 
 
 “ In the beginning of April Brother Hahn left the station 
 in which he lias laboured for so many years with so much 
 blessing. At his departure the lepers came round him to 
 bid him and his family a last farewell. They have a warm 
 recollection of their’fatherly friend, and are counting on his 
 return. Since then the Asylum has been under my care. 
 The afhiirs there are going on as usual. 
 
 “To the inmates whatever is possible of medical assist¬ 
 ance and treatment is granted. They are in every way 
 instructed in God’s word—not only the Christians, but also 
 the heathen. For those who cannot come to the public 
 worship of God, it is brought to their houses. In this 
 Prabhudayal and Paulus, two of the lepers, are useful 
 among their felloAv-sufferers. The lepers on the whole 
 listen gladly and willingly to the joyful message of salva¬ 
 tion through Christ, although Avith some of them the old 
 dulness is conquered but sloAvly, and they make only slight 
 progress in the knowledge of the Christian life. Yet they 
 believe and experience that the Lord Jesus is their 
 Redeemer. 
 
 “ Undoubtedlj'^ the most advanced among them is Johan, 
 Avho has been here since 1885. He is an earnest, contented 
 Christian, and is waiting quietly for his Saviour to come 
 and release him from his miserable life of suffering to ever¬ 
 lasting glory. He is full of faith and hope. In April he 
 was seriously ill, and hoped the hour of his home-going had 
 come. He Avas strengthened for it by the Lord’s Supper, 
 and believed with assurance in the forgiveness of his sins. 
 
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 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 4’*ut the Lord detiiined His suffering servant. He is, na 
 doubt, to be made riper before he is fully ready for the 
 place where there is to be no pain and no suffering. 
 
 “Another of the lepers—Mansidh —has had to be 
 punished. He is a dishonest and troublesome man, and 
 raised grave re})roach. Then he wanted to leave the Asylum 
 immediately. He was kept apart from the others, but when 
 it was explained to him that the punishment was only for 
 the object of showing him his fault and making him sorry 
 for it, he bowed his head and asked for pardon. 
 
 “Blind Benjamin is a joyful, truediearted lad, who likes 
 to sing and practise music. For this purpose he has all 
 kinds of primitive instruments. I should like if he could 
 some time learn some easy handicraft. In the meantime he 
 is going to school; he reads fluently with the blind type, 
 but his library is very small. 
 
 “Two of the lepers were lately called out of this life. 
 First there was Abraham, an old man. Oh, how the poor 
 fellow must have suffered! For a long time he could 
 hardly speak, and cquld eat and drink only with difficulty. 
 But in spite of his lack of understanding, he hoped for the 
 grace of his Lord and Baviour. The second Avas Yakub, a 
 (piiet, peaceful Christian, who liked to read the Bible. He 
 suffered great pain at the end ; leprosy had especially 
 attacked his feet. His death came* suddenly without a 
 .struggle. 
 
 “ Baptisms have not yet taken place this year. The 
 heathen, all except tivo—Bhike and Kamgir—are being 
 prepared for baptism. When, some months ago, I asked 
 Bhike to become a Christian and be saved from his sins, he 
 resolutely refused, then asked anxiously if he must leave 
 the Asylum, and was visibly satisfied and grateful when the 
 answer was glA^en to him that, in spite of this, he could 
 remain quietly where he was. But the Spirit of God is 
 working in his heart. He is alreadv convinced that he 
 
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THE LEPERS IX INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 35 
 
 needs a Saviour, and that the Lord Jesus alone can ])e liis 
 Redeemer. The love he experiences from his friends who 
 are Christians, and to whom he owes his presence in the 
 Asylum, has made a deep and blessed impression on him. 
 A short time ago I met in his room a heathen, an old friend 
 from the village. That gave an opportunity for a talk about 
 religion. At the end Bhike wanted information on a 
 question whether the Lord Jesus was the Saviour only of 
 the Christians, not also of the heathen. He listened with 
 great satisfaction to the answer that of course the Lord 
 called the heathen to Himself, and wanted to save them 
 from their sins. His idea was, hoAvever, that he did not 
 really need to become a Christian and be baptized. He 
 hoped too that the Lord in mercy would accept him. 1 was 
 glad to see that he had come so far, and hope that he will 
 come to a clear belief. He seems to have the intention of 
 getting his grown-up son, who is with him, married, and 
 then of coming with his children to be instructed for 
 baptism. 
 
 “ On Brother Hahn’s wish and advice 1 have had the 
 Asylum Chapel enlarged and raised ; it was very small and 
 low. How it will give suitable room for public worship. 
 The lepers themselves vdll provide a new mat for it. We 
 have at present twenty-one men in the Asylum, and one 
 woman, a widow, only slightly ill. Seven of the inmates 
 are not yet baptized. Five are married, and have altogether 
 fourteen children. In the Children’s Home eight boys and 
 four girls are being cared for. The children are easily 
 guided, and are a pleasure to me. 
 
 “ May the Lord in His mercy still watch over our 
 Asylum.” 
 
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 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 MADRAS. 
 
 (Government Leper Hospital.) 
 
 The Kev. Dr. R. J. Brandon, Chaplain of Blacktown, who 
 wery kindly superintends the work of our agents, and who 
 himself ministers to the lepers, thus writes: “ I can assure 
 y'ou in the name of the European and Eurasian lepers, and 
 in niy own name, that we are most grateful to you and your 
 ^Society for providing a Scripture Reader for the Asylum. I 
 hope at some time you may visit India, and come to Madras, 
 .and see for yourself how much you brighten the sad lives of 
 ■our lepers.” 
 
 Mr. Daniel Gabriel, Scripture Reader to the European 
 nnd Eurasian lepens, reports: “ I conduct service in the 
 Hospital Chapel every Sunday morning and evening, and on 
 Tuesday and Eriday mornings. On other days I visit all 
 the patients, and read and pray with each. I give particular 
 attention to those who are nearing death, and remain with 
 those who are dying during the night, that I may speak to 
 tliem words of comfort, pray Avith them, and help them to 
 keep looking to Jesus. All lepers who attend church are 
 •communicants except one, who is too young to be confirmed. 
 In 1892 the Bishop of Madras confirmed tAventy European, 
 Eurasian, and native Christians, in the Leper Hospital. 
 Some of the lepers cannot read, and I therefore spend more 
 time in reading to them than I do in reading to others. I 
 •distribute handbills to those Avho can read. The lepers take 
 a great interest in their church, and have provided a pulpit 
 and other furniture for the place. They always decorate 
 their church for Christmas, and expect the chaplain to hold 
 .•a special service for them, Avhich is alwaj^s held on Christmas 
 Live. 
 
 “There are noAv tAventy-nine European and Eurasian 
 lepers in the hospital. Of these seventeen are Roman 
 
THE LEPERS IX INDIA AND THE EAST. 37 
 
 Catholics. Eleven lepers have died since I became Scrip¬ 
 ture Eeader, and of these ten belonged to the Churdi of 
 England. I have every hope that those who died looked t®' 
 Jesns and to Him alone for salvation. 
 
 “ I visit ten lepers, Eurasians and natives, who are not in; 
 the hospital. 
 
 “ There is also a native Catechist who works amongst the- 
 native inmates. Hnring 1894 we have not had the services- 
 of a Bible woman, but Dr. Brandon hopes to secure one 
 very soon.” 
 
 HAND ALA Y. 
 
 We give extracts from several interesting letters of the- 
 Rev. W. R. Winston, of the Wesleyan Missionary Society: 
 
 “ The three girls are well, and getting on nicely. Ma- 
 Shway Ma, the granddaughter of the old leper man, is a 
 particularly bright girl, and Avishes to be baptised. I had 
 begun to think it was about time for this, as her grandfather 
 died last Christmas, and she seemed entirely in our hands p 
 when, lo ! her mother turned up from LoAA'er Burma. She¬ 
 lias been aivay some six years, and never seen the child 
 but now she is groAving up and becoming Avorth OAvning, they 
 come forth and claim relationship. The mother seems grate¬ 
 ful for our care and attention to the child, and sIioaa's no- 
 disposition to remove her; so that there is every reason to 
 hope she may remain AA’ith us, and be trained for a teacher,, 
 as she is very promising. In religious knowledge she is- 
 very bright also, and is a true believer. Still, though this 
 is the case, Ave have to tread Avarily in the matter of 
 baptising, lest by being too precipitate Ave do more harm, 
 than good. 
 
 “We faithfully carry on the religious Avork; and one man 
 -—the man Avho had his leg amputated—is ready for baptism, 
 and seems a sincere believer. I hope others may follow, but 
 they take time. Kot a few, I believe, die in the faith; for 
 
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 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 we often have the opportunity at the last of turning their 
 thoughts to God, and ive do not like to baptise until some 
 evidences appear. Baptism is no sure test of all we do 
 liero. I am urging upon Government the necessity of doing 
 more than they do at jiresent to help us, but there has 
 not been time for a reply as yet. I like to spare your funds 
 as much as I possildy can, and get as much locally as is 
 possible.” 
 
 This man, named Mauug Ba, was afterwards baptised, 
 and Mr. Winston says : “ Up to date he gives me much 
 satisfaction by his cheerful Christian walk and his interest 
 in good things. I am in hopes that others may follow, but 
 it is not easy to break through the crust of prejudice and 
 sinful life in which they have been enclosed. Many of the 
 lepers have led queer lives. 
 
 “The last arrival, a few days ago, is an Indian (Tamil). 
 He has spent twenty years in Mauritius, and speaks French. 
 He started to walk here from Kangoon, 400 miles, and 
 actually walked two-thirds of the way, when a gentleman 
 paid his fare by train.” 
 
 Tidings reach us later of Maung Ba’s death. “ Only the 
 last time I saw him alive—a few days before his death—I 
 was much struck with his quiet earnestness, and with the 
 effects of it. A poor fellow lying near him, who suffers 
 aivfully from boils all over him and constant ulcers, requested 
 liaptism. I asked him, ‘ What led you to decide about 
 this ? ’ He said Maung Ba had read and talked to him a 
 great deal, as well as to many others. Upon this, Maung Ba, 
 who was lying down suffering from fever, rose up partly 
 from his couch, and got quite interested as he told me about 
 it. I thought. Is the Lord going to make this poor fellow 
 an instrument of great and lasting spiritual good in the 
 place ? Alas I in three or four days he was gone. 
 
 “ There is a better tone about the place spiritually than I 
 have known before, and I am sanguine of more success. 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 39 
 
 But of course the Gospel is new to Upper Burma, so that it 
 takes long to find its way to these poor lost ones.” 
 
 In ]\[r. Winston’s last letter in 1894 he tells us the joyful 
 news of eight baptisms. “ On Christmas-day we had a higii 
 day. By the kindness of friends, tlie lepers’ Cliristmas feast 
 was specially paid for, and we had quite a line baptismal 
 service at 2 p.in., at which nearly twenty Europeans and 
 some Burmans were present, and we had eiglit baptisms. I 
 fully expected some after the careful instruction we have 
 lieen giving them, and I think tliat poor fellow, IMaung Ba, 
 who led the way, did not live and die in vain. 
 
 “ They seem to be in earnest too, for I am glad to say 
 they are setting themselves to work together, and have 
 formed a class with Maung Po Lu, tlie most intelligent 
 among tliem, as leader, and they have reading of the Scrip¬ 
 tures amongst themselves, and prayer every day. I fully 
 expect in the course of the year that we shall welcome more 
 of them into the Christian Churcli.” 
 
 MANGALOEE. 
 
 Tlie Kev. Paul Ott, of the Basel Mission, gives tlie 
 following account of recent events at this Asylum: “Our 
 work among the lepers is going on as usual; but I am sorry 
 to have to tell you that Jacoli and his mother Maria secretly 
 left the Asylum in the beginning of the year. I decidedly 
 expect they will return and ask to be re-admitted into our 
 .Vsyluin; for how can they find peace among their heathen 
 relatives after having heard and tasted something of the 
 love of Jesus to poor sinners? Maria was such a nice 
 woman too, and particularly zealous and faithful in hearing 
 the word of God; but her son is a very olistinate fellow, 
 who always has his own way with his mother, so that she 
 seems to have left the shelter of the Asylum at his 
 instigation. 
 
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 THE LEPERS IX INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 “ It is a cause of great grief to me that our poor lepers 
 often are at strife Avith each other; but I am inclined to 
 think that it is partly their disease that makes them dis¬ 
 contented and cross at times. On the other hand, I must 
 say that their anger with each other is not deep or of long 
 duration, and they are very soon ready to forgive and forget. 
 That was also the case before the celebration of the Lord’s 
 Supjjer on Good Friday, on which occasion they asked each 
 otlier’s forgiveness in a touching manner, and shoAved a great 
 longing for the Lord’s grace and sah'ation.. 
 
 “Abner has been A^ery ill Avith dysentery, and Avas pre¬ 
 paring himself for death, Avhich he thought Avas near. He 
 is noAv a little better, Imt I fear that the Lord may one day 
 call him aAA^ay suddenly.” , 
 
 Later came tidings of Abner’s death. 
 
 “ Since I wrote to you last our poor Abner has been 
 called to his rest. His sufferings Avere great during the last 
 Aveeks of his life, and nursing him Avas not an easy task, his 
 hands and feet being full of open sores, and the smell of 
 them A"ery trying. In his case I again saw Avhat a dreadful 
 disease leprosy is, for the parents could not even assist their 
 poor son in his utmost need. I am, hoAveyer, happy to state 
 that he Avas perfected through suffering to enter his home in 
 heaven, and died putting his trust in his Saviour, Avho has 
 noAV fully cleansed him from the bodily and spiritual leprosy 
 of sin and death.” ^ - ; F' 
 
 MORADABAD. 
 
 The Kev. G. M. Eulloch, on his Avay back to Almora, 
 kindly visited the Asylum here, in company Avith the Kbal 
 L. A. Core, of the Episcopal Methodist Mission. He and 
 IMr. Core Avere much interested in Avhat they saAV, and they 
 haA'e made arrangements for the lepers to be regularly visited 
 by a Christian called Benjamin. It Avill be his business to 
 teach them from the word of God, and to bring Avhat light 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 41 
 
 and comfort he can to their poor weary hearts. Mr. Core 
 has kindly consented to superintend his work. 'We have 
 been long wishing to have a Christian agent at this place, 
 and are now thankful to report that a commencement has 
 been made. 
 
 MUZAFFARNA GAR. 
 
 We give a few extracts from a letter of Mr. Scott’s to 
 Mr. Herron, telling what has been done about land and 
 buildings for the lepers here. “ I went to the Collector at 
 Muzaffarnagar, and laid before him all about the land and 
 buildings of the Leper Asylum, and asked him to help me 
 to secure the IVIango Tope (Mango Grove), which has been 
 occuj)ied for the last twenty-five years by our lepers. The}' 
 have squatter’s right to the place, yet I do not think they 
 have a right to erect anything permanent on the land, so I 
 asked the Collector kindly to help me to secure it. If it 
 could not be got gratis for the poor lepers Ave should be 
 willing to pay any small and reasonable sum that he may 
 think proper. ... I think there ought to be twenty-five or 
 thirty rooms in barrack for the lepers to begin Avith, also a 
 Avell, and a building for the Christian lepers to meet in from 
 time to time for Avorship.” 
 
 NEYOORl^ 
 
 Writing on HoA'ember 20th, Dr. Fells thus roughly sums 
 up the work amongst the lepers in Iseyoor during 1894 : 
 “ The sum expended upon the lepers has exceeded any 
 previous sum, due chiefly to the fact that the Home is now 
 continually filled, Avhile at the same time drought keeps up 
 the price of paddy (rice.) At the time of this drought, 
 during Avhich the country suffered excessively (the rains, 
 AAdien they did come, being too late for many of the crops), 
 the AA'ell belonging to tire Leper Asylum Avas a great comfort 
 to the inmates, having still twenty feet of Avater, Avhile 
 neighbouring establishments AAmre feeling the scarcity keenly.” 
 
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 THE LEPERS IX IXUIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 Writing towards tlie end of the year Dr. Fells urges the 
 extension of the Asylum })remises for several reasons, the 
 least important of these being the dangerous proximity of 
 the present burying-ground to the well. The more weighty 
 arguments may he gathered from his own words: “ As the 
 result of my experience here, I think the present arrange¬ 
 ment of having men and women patients in the same or 
 even adjacent compounds most unadvisahle. I should like 
 to see an entirely separate set of buildings for the women 
 and children a mile away from the present one. Of course 
 Christian instruction goes on daily, and we do all that lies 
 in our power to stir up a higher ideal of purity in their 
 minds, but to many it is an entirely new thought,” &c. 
 
 During the year the new Thyroid treatment has been 
 tried on a number of selected cases. As to the results Dr. 
 Fells writes that “it has a decided effect in relieving the 
 patients of all pain and discomfort.” Beyond that there is 
 little as yet to he said. 
 
 liAWAL FIND I. 
 
 The Asylum here is a municipal institution, hut the 
 missionaries of the American United Presbyterian Mission 
 are allowed to carry on Christian work. A native Christian 
 teacher working under ^he missionaries visits the Asylum 
 regulai'ly. He is paid by our Society. 
 
 The Eev. W.- T. Anderson writes in April as follows : 
 “We are now ready to report that for the past month the 
 work among the lepers has been carried on regidarly by a 
 good and able catechist. AYe find it very difificult to get 
 the lepers to attend upon services. The poor fellows seem 
 to have been hardened by their affliction, which is not to he 
 wondered at, when we consider that they have not the 
 modifying and softening power of the Gospel in their hearts.” 
 
 The Rev. G. AY. Morrison, who has now kindly under¬ 
 taken to visit the Asylum, thus reports in October : 
 
THE LEPERS IX INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 43 
 
 “ I am indeed very sorry that I liave not been able to 
 answer your letter sooner. Since Mr. Anderson was trans¬ 
 ferred from here I have been left in sole charge of the work, 
 and find it difficult to find’ time to do so much in the Avay 
 of correspondence. I go occasionally to visit the Asylum, 
 but not as often as I should like by any means. We have 
 employed a native catechist, half of whose salary we pay 
 with the fund you have so kindly sent, and he goes regularly 
 to preach and to talk with these people, and very often one 
 of the other catechists from the citv work goes Avith him. 
 At first the people Avere very much inclined to hold off, and 
 tell about the many personal comforts that former mission¬ 
 aries provided them AAuth. Ihit as they have become better 
 acquainted Avith the Avorker they listen more attentively, 
 and Sant Shah, the catechist, says that nearly all Avho are 
 able to be out come around AvheneA'er they are there, and 
 seem more ready to listen carefully to Avhat he has to tell 
 them. We Avould like, if possible, to start a little school 
 for the children among them, and I hope to do so just as 
 soon as suitable arrangements can be made for a teacher, 
 building, &c. At first the people seemed inclined to think 
 that such a movement Avas all foolishness, but lately they 
 seem to be thinking that it Avould be very nice to have their 
 children learning something. So I hope that ere long Ave 
 may be able to report some progress in that Avay. 
 
 “As to the Avoman Kalo she is still in the Asylum, but 
 in a very loAV condition. She is confined to her bed, and 
 suffers very much. She seems to listen to the Gospel when 
 it is spoken to her, but the anguish she is in seems to 
 prevent her from paying close attention to it. But Ave can 
 hope and pray that it may lay hold on her heart, even 
 though it may not always seem to do so, J trust that you 
 Avill remember us constantly in your prayers. The soil seems 
 hard, but the Lord is able to cause the seed to take root 
 and bear fruit in Avhat may seem to us unpromising soil.” 
 
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 THE LEPERS IX IXDIA AXD THE EAST. 
 
 ROHA {KoLABA District). 
 
 The Eev. I. B. Bawa’s first letter is from Poladpore, 
 where is situated one of the two small homes under his 
 charge. Speaking of the death of a leper woman he says : 
 “ Ganga Bai was the best of our lepers here. She was 
 very religiously inclined, and she could comprehend all that 
 was told her about Jesus. She was a great help to me iii 
 doing somewhat of a Biblewoman’s work among the lepers, 
 though she was not appointed as one. She would preacli 
 to the other lepers, settle their quarrels, and in every waj" 
 try to direct their hearts to Jesus. I am sure she died 
 a Christian, and I am sorry to lose her. I can’t forget her, 
 because she was so sweet and good.” 
 
 A later letter contains the following: “ Of all the Christian 
 work I have had the privilege of doing, somehow I like 
 this leper Avork the best. I returned from Poladpore only 
 three or four days ago, having spent about ten days there. 
 I used to have prayers Avith the lepers every morning, and I 
 found that on hearing the SAveet Avord of Christ they had 
 an expression that could only be understood by a Christian. 
 At such a time one forgets their broken, Aveak, and dilapi¬ 
 dated frame, and sees Iioav their precious souls soar high. I 
 liaAm often had the opportunity of hearing them repeat the 
 Bible Amrses that they have committed to memory. The}' 
 all sit together, the men on one side, and the Avomen on the 
 other. Then they make a reverent boAv, and begin to sing 
 the ten commandments. Then they repeat the Beatitudes 
 and the Lord’s Prayer, at the end making a reverent boAv 
 Avith closed eyes, and saying, ‘ Yes, Lord, let Thy kingdom 
 come ! ’ The AA'hole thing is done Avith so much reverence 
 and simplicity that every time the}' did it I Avas touched 
 aneAv. 
 
 “ Ganga Bai I considered my right hand, and her death 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 45 
 
 lias given me a rude shock. The death was due to a wound 
 caused by a stone which was thrown at her by a hoy in 
 Poladpore, who thought the lepers ought to be mercilessly 
 treated.” 
 
 Mr. Bawa having had to take a year’s leave on account of 
 his health, the Kev. J. E. Abbott has kindly taken charge 
 of the leper work in the Kolaba district. Mr. Abbott is 
 very much interested, and is throwing his whole heart into 
 the work. He has already commenced the building of the 
 Asylum at Koha, to be called “Best” by the desire of 
 an anonymous friend who has kindly given the money 
 for its erection. 
 
 V 
 
 RURKl. 
 
 Rev. A. T. Leonard, of the American Episcopal Methodist 
 Mission, took over charge of this Asylum from Mr. Webb in 
 March, when the latter had to return to America. We give 
 some very interesting extracts from letters received from 
 Mr. Leonard during the year : 
 
 “ Over five adults are Christians and have received 
 instruction from time to time. 
 
 “ You will I know be glad to hear that I am intensely 
 interested in these poor outcasts. I visit them once a week 
 and preach Jesus.” 
 
 Writing later Mr. Leonard gives the following touching 
 account of the death of one of the Christian inmates : 
 
 On Christmas Day at 3 p.m. when I was just about to 
 begin my Hindoostani service, word came that Buddhu had 
 just died. Poor Buddhu, he came to the Asylum in 1893 
 some time. He was always most attentive and appeared a 
 very intelligent Christian. He could sing well the bhajans 
 (native hymns) I taught, and was never absent when I 
 visited the Asylum. I remember well on one occasion 
 when the question of helping to bury the dead came up 
 (and was being hotly discussed) as to whether a Hindu, or 
 
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 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 jMohamineclan should, or could, assist without l)eing defiled, 
 Ihiddhu spoke up saying with much fervour, ‘ I am a 
 Christian and fear no defilement.’ He began to suffer from 
 fever, about four weeks ago, then complained of pain in the 
 stomach; all kinds of medicines were tried but he did not get 
 any better. For the past few days it has been intensely cold; 
 his wife says that the poor fellow w’ould sit by the wmod 
 fire, holding his stumps over it, till they w'ere partially 
 charred, and yet couldn’t feel it. On Christmas morning he 
 seemed a trifle better, and spoke in such a clear strong voice 
 that the inmates said they felt sure he was now recovering, 
 as they had not heard his voice for many days. Alas ! it 
 seemed the last flicker of the dying flame, for in the after¬ 
 noon, without a groan, and doubling himself up, as if in pain, 
 he expired. His wife says that for days he would say from 
 time to time, ‘ 0 God, 0 Christ relieve me of this pain or 
 speedily take me to Thyself.’ And so Jesus took Mm to 
 Himself. Preaching his funeral sermon to the inmates, I 
 j)ointed to the corpse and said, ‘ that is not Buddhu, that is 
 only the house he lived in, and a broken battered miserable 
 house it is. Put Buddhu has this day left for ever the 
 leprous house, and is to-day j)erfect in health, [and I held up 
 my own clean hands], standing before Jesus Christ.’ Oh, if 
 you could only have seen the light that came into the eyes of 
 these depressed afflicted ones, as they caught the inspiration 
 of the hope of the resurrection, it Avould have feasted your 
 heart for long years. ‘ All this,’ I said, ‘ in Jesus.’ And 
 they replied ‘ Yes, yes, Buddhu is happy now for ever.’ I 
 thank God again for the blessed privilege of preaching 
 Jesus to these despised dying ones.” 
 
 SABATHU. 
 
 Mrs. Carleton gives an interesting account of the progress 
 of the work here: “There are now thirteen Christian lepers, 
 a Christian doctor who has the morning prayer, a Christian 
 
THE LEPERS IX INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 47 
 
 compounder and school-teacher. We do want so much to 
 get more Christian workmen about; for Hinduism is so 
 strong, and we have a power to contend against in the chief 
 man or factotum. I believe he does all he can to hinder the 
 progress of Christianity here. He would he a Paul in some 
 ways if converted. Dr. Carleton’s plan for a village is still 
 dormant, hut we hope he can carry it out. It is so impor¬ 
 tant to give lepers some work to do. Of course there will 
 be only a few who can work, hut the few should do so. A 
 man died, a Brahmin, leaving a wife and five children. I 
 found the poor widow in great grief; she gave me the three 
 youngest children, and when she dies I hope we can send 
 them to the Home in Almora. There are three other 
 children here who are taught by Saumukh Masih every day; 
 they don’t make a great show of learning yet. 
 
 “You would have enjoyed our Sunday service. Mangal 
 has a cart now, and goes about a good deal. Old Mr. Wylie 
 preached on our being made righteous by faith. We had the 
 organ, and sang the familiar hj'^rans, in which a few lepers 
 could join, and then a bhajan in which all joined. All 
 listened and seemed to enjoy the service. There is a Bible 
 class for the Christians in the afternoon. Just to teach them 
 more of the Bible. This Dr. Carleton takes.” 
 
 In August Dr. Carleton writes : “ Up to date the number 
 of persons connected with the Asylum has been just ninety. 
 The number to-day present is seventy-seven. Only three 
 deaths so far. We had three baptisms. Several more 
 almost ready for baptism, but hesitate though counting 
 themselves as Christians. The Asylum is very full just now 
 having in many cases three or more in one room.” 
 
 SAHARANPORE. 
 
 Mr. Herron has sent home a photograph of the improved 
 and enlarged Asylum at Saharanpore, Avhich has lately been 
 completed. All has been satisfactorily performed, and “ you 
 
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 will lie glad,” he adds, “to learn that all the Avork is 
 paid for.” 
 
 The Municipality executed needed repairs on the women’s 
 House. 
 
 Dr. Forman thus writes to Mr. Herron: “A leper whom 
 I have just received permission to admit into the Asylum 
 wishes to be ba^itised, and I»am simply waiting until he is 
 admitted, and then intend baptising him. Others in the 
 Asylum are interested.” 
 
 TARN TARAN. 
 
 Rev. E. Guilford, of the Church Missionary Society, who 
 is as much devoted as ever to his leper friends in the Tarn 
 Taran Asylum, Avrites to us at the end of the year: “Please do 
 not take my long silence as indicating any Avant of interest 
 in the great Avork Ave both have at heart. The sole reason 
 has been want of time. I have been so closely engaged the 
 last tliree years in the revision of the Panjabi NeAv 
 Testament, and the last year in building our' neAV Church, 
 that I have had but little time for correspondence. I am 
 thankful to say that the Avork of the Asylum is most 
 cheering and promising. There are now tAvo hundred 
 inmates and of these forty-two are Christians, and one is 
 an inquirer ; so that Ave can claim nearly a quarter of the 
 inmates as being on the Lord’s side. Amongst the rest 
 there is much better feeling than there Avas a short time 
 ago, and a greater readiness to listen to the Word preached. 
 I am looking forAvard to the time Avhen every living soul 
 in the Asylum aauII bear the honoured name of Christian; 
 for this is not too much for the Lord to do in ansAver to the 
 prayers of His believing people. 
 
 “ Our Christians at the Asylum afford cause for the greatest 
 joy and thankfulness. Many of them have during the past 
 year visibly groAvn in grace. It is the greatest privilege of 
 one’s life to go amongst them.” 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST, 
 
 49 
 
 Speaking of preparing some of the inmates for Con¬ 
 firmation, Mr. Guilford says: “ A more blessed class of 
 Confirmation candidates I have never had, than that I am 
 now holding at the Leper Asylum. The Holy Spirit has 
 been manifestly present with us. . . .” 
 
 Mr. Guilford speaks of having reclaimed a piece of waste 
 land, and distributed it to som§ of the inmates. The residt 
 has been most beneficial in every way. Those who are able 
 to work have thus got employment, and take the greatest 
 interest in their little gardens. 
 
 Speaking of work amongst the children, Mr. Guilford 
 says : “ Our Children’s Home is going on well; we have 
 eight children under our care, and they are all happy the 
 livelong day. We ought of course, to have many more 
 children than we have. . . . However, I still have hope of 
 getting many more little ones away from that home of living 
 death. We accommodate the ‘chicks’ in the Sarai which I 
 purchased from Government; so that we have a place large 
 enough to take in many scores of children.” 
 
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 CHINA. 
 
 —♦— 
 
 HANGCHOW. 
 
 Very interesting letters from both Dr. and Mrs. Main are 
 to hand. We give some extracts : 
 
 “ The work here is growing daily, and oh that we might 
 grow with it! I hope yon keep praying for us. . . . Since 
 I wrote you last we have had the joy of seeing four more 
 lepers baptized and received into the church; that makes 
 six in all. Six weeks ago it was our joy and privilege to 
 ‘break bread’ with them. We have a nice little service 
 with them every Sunday. This is our very busy season, 
 and, unfortunately, both of my assistants are ill, and I am 
 quite overcome with work.” 
 
 Again. “ Many thanks for your kind note, enclosing <£5 
 from Mrs. Dewar for a cot in the Leper Hospital. We have 
 finished the little Hospital for women, and have accommoda¬ 
 tion for six patients, but so far we have only had two. I 
 am hoping to build a little home for the children by and by. 
 Ah Hyin, one of the Christian lepers, died a few days ago. 
 He was very ill for several months, and was longing for the 
 end. It was a real joy to see his simple faith, and I can 
 assure you his patient resignation under severe suffering 
 taught me a lesson. We have our sunshine and shadow, 
 trials and triumphs, but thank God! the triumphs turn the 
 scale.” 
 
 “ I write now specially,” says Mrs. Main, “ to say that 
 if you would support another little boy about two years old, 
 brother of En’sen, youngest child of Ah-s the leper, it 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 51 
 
 would be a great comfort to his mother, who finds it pretty 
 difficult to work for her living. The father is one of our 
 Christians, as you already know, and so we might call the 
 little fellow a C.M.S. child. I heard from Mr. and Mrs. 
 Xeale, who take charge of the school, that En’sen is a good 
 little fellow, and so anxious to get on with his lessons and 
 stand well in his class. . . . 
 
 “ Our Men’s Asylum has sixteen inmates, of whom four 
 or five were inquirers. Before Bishop Moule left for 
 England he baptized and confirmed them. We had a most 
 interesting service in the little Leper Chapel, and it was 
 quite touching to hear and see the poor men responding so 
 heartily to the questions put to them. After the baptism, 
 the congregation knelt to receive the Holy Communion. 
 There were six lepers, two or three evangelists. Dr. Lin and 
 Dr. Main, and myself. It was a peculiarly interesting 
 and impressive service, and not easily forgotten. We felt 
 truly thankful for the first fruits of the harvest which we 
 feel sure is to follow. There are at least four more inquiring 
 the way to Zion. I wish there was something we could 
 think of to employ them in their everyday life ; it must be 
 so monotonous having so little to do ; so many of them are 
 unable to use their hands, and of course they cannot be 
 learning to read all day. We have now two women in the 
 Women’s Refuge ; the first occupant is the woman about 
 whom I have written several times. You would be de¬ 
 lighted to see how wonderfully improved she is in her 
 physical condition altogether. It makes one feel encouraged 
 in the work if only from that point of view; and how 
 doubly cheering it is when they seek the Lord as their own 
 Saviour. This woman is very anxious to be baptised, and is 
 only waiting until she is a little more instructed in Bible 
 truths. She is learning to read, and is getting interested in 
 her lesson. The companion she has now is also an old 
 patient, and one I have known for seven years or so. I am 
 
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 in hopes of her also turning to the Lord. Then the woman 
 who attends to them is interested also—pray for them and 
 us. I am greatly interested in this little hit of my work, 
 and enjoy my daily visit. I have promised the older patient 
 that she may be present at the opening of the new Women’s 
 Hospital, and she is greatly delighted, poor thing.” 
 
 Mrs. Main continues in a later letter : “ The leper woman 
 was baptized on Friday afternoon the 21st of September, 
 by the Rev. G. W. I. Coulters, in the nice new room which 
 had not been used previously. She has asked so many 
 times for baptism that I asked Mr. Coulters to come and 
 catechise her. He and Mrs. Coulters came, and were quite 
 pleased with her answers and earnestness, so that he decided 
 to baptize her the following day. We had a nice little 
 service, and had the great joy of seeing her received into 
 Christian fellowship. I feel sure that she is solely trusting 
 to the Lord Jesus and to His redeeming love. She told me 
 that she had not been able to sleep the night before because 
 she was so happy ; or, as her own expression is, ‘ happy to 
 the death,’ which means a very great deal of happiness. 
 Her Christian name is Salome. Another leper came in on 
 Friday, the day of the baptism. Such a sad-looking girl of 
 eighteen. She is so much happier-looking since she came, 
 bright, clean, and well-fed. It is such a comfort to relieve 
 them so. May the Lord abundantly bless the work.” 
 
 HI AO KAN, HANKOW. 
 
 The following is from the Secretary of the Hankow 
 District Committee of the London Missionary Society: 
 “My object in writing is to convey to you, and through 
 you to your Committee, orir deep gTatitude for the means 
 you give us to carry out what has for a long time been 
 our great desire; viz.,'to‘ameliorate the lot of a class 
 for which nothing is being done at present in this part 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 53 
 
 of China—a class, unfortunately, by no means small. 
 Whilst we all trust that the Leper Hospital may be made a 
 physical and spiritual blessing to many lepers, we believe 
 that the mere existence of such an Institution in the Hiao 
 Kan District will be a constant testimony to the natives of 
 the love of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the leper and 
 the outcast. In no formal manner we beg to tender our 
 heartiest thanks for the grant so kindly and so opportunely 
 made.” 
 
 “I am glad to report,” writes Dr. Walton, of the London 
 Missionary Society, a little later, “ that the building is going 
 up at last, the first Leper Home in this great teeming 
 district. May it indeed prove a building erected to the 
 glory of God, and may the Master Himself find hearts to 
 rest in within its walls ! You will like to have a plan of 
 the foundations, so I enclose one, and shall always be glad 
 to answer any questions about it that anyone may have to 
 ask. The building is intended for some twelve or fourteen 
 lepers, though I have very little doubt that if occasion 
 requires it, we shall be able to accommodate a few more. . . . 
 Your generous grant will hardly cover the building expenses; 
 but one of the Eussian firms in Hankow has kindly added 
 two hundred taels, and we hope to receive further gifts. . . . 
 I am appealing to some personal friends for help to furnish 
 it; but for yearly outlay I think we shall have to fall back 
 on your generosity. I hope very much to be able to 
 jiersuade a man to come in, who will be a great help in 
 preaching and talking to the lepers. I think I have already 
 mentioned him to you incidentally. He is a thoroughly 
 good Christian fellow, and I like him exceeedingly. He 
 used to teach a school for us at one of the villages, till it 
 was found advisable, from his having the disease, to pension 
 him off.” 
 
 Again ive hear from Dr. Walton: “The workmen are 
 working with a will at the new building, and the roof is 
 
54 
 
 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST, 
 
 nearly on. ... I have had some beautiful texts sent hy 
 the Illuminated Text Mission, which will help to take some 
 of the bareness off the walls, and, let us hope, some of the 
 sadness out of the hearts.” 
 
 KIEN NING FU. 
 
 Dr. Rigg, C.M.S., thus speaks of the native catechist 
 whom, as mentioned in last report, he had employed at this 
 Asylum: “ INing King is satisfactorily carrying on the work. 
 Ilis own leprosy is much worse, I ain sorry to say. Latterly 
 there has been encouragement; several have given heed to 
 the Gospel, and one who died King King reported to have 
 a true faith in the Saviour. The past year has been a trying 
 one, and rice has been much dearer than usual. I have 
 given some of your grant and also some money contributed 
 by the native church, to help the poorer lepers.” 
 
 Dr. Rigg, we are sorry to say, has been obliged to come to 
 England on account of ill-health, and Mr. Collins, who 
 kindly takes charge during his absence, sends reports of the 
 work, and thus concludes : 
 
 “There is interest, but no tangible result as yet, in the 
 Kein King Lejier Village, I am concerned about the 
 lepers: we want souls for Christ, not merely charity 
 receptacles who give thanks to the foreigner.” 
 
 KVCHENG. 
 
 The Rev. R. W. Stewart, of the C.M.S., has succeeded the 
 Rev. W. Banister, of the same Society, who has been 
 transferred to Foochow. “ The leper work has therefore,” 
 writes the latter, “fallen into good hands. Before I left 
 Kucheng, the new Asylum was almost completed. I am 
 sure you would be pleased if you could see it. The church 
 enlarged is very nice indeed. I think I told you that the 
 old catechist has passed away. God has sent us another 
 good man in his place. I am sure you will help him in your 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 55 
 
 prayers. I am so sorry I have not been able to do anything 
 as yet about the young ones here. The Chinese are very 
 shy about taking anyone from a leper-house : even the 
 Christians shrink from it.” 
 
 A little later we have a letter from Mr. Stewart. He 
 writes as follows: 
 
 “ The building is finished. The paint and plaster are not 
 quite dry, but in a week or so now I hope to open it. The 
 poor creatures are packed together in their miserable quarters 
 close by, and look forward eagerly to the change into the 
 airy, clean, comfortable Asylum. I have had service with 
 them as often as I could on Sundays, and they really answer 
 very fairly about the great fundamental truths of Christianity. 
 
 “ Our service is of an informal kind- usually, adapted to 
 their simple minds, and I do a good deal of catechising 
 during the address.” 
 
 The next letter is from Mrs. Stewart: “ You ask about a 
 poor man who had scarcely any face left, but with a beauti¬ 
 ful expression. Yes, he is still alive, and as bright and 
 earnest as ever; though the outward man is quickly perish¬ 
 ing, the inward seems truly growing and developing. Only 
 a few days ago I heard the leper catechist speaking about 
 him, and he said he was the most earnest of all. He is now 
 quite blind, but yet so willing to do all he can to help others; 
 and it is quite wonderful, he says, to hear him pray. The 
 catechist is a very nice man, and so bright and earnest 
 himself that he must be a blessing to those poor creatures 
 in their sad and lonely lives. 
 
 “Then about the family of children. It is most sad about 
 them, but nothing will induce the jiarents to give them iqD. 
 Mr. Stewart felt so grieved to see them growing up in such 
 sad surroundings, and has been doing all he can to induce 
 the father and mother to allow them to go elsewhere, but so 
 far he has not succeeded. 
 
 “The new leper^house is like a palace compared to the 
 niiseral)le place they used to be crowded together in.” 
 
56 
 
 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 LO NGUONG. 
 
 The Eev. J. Martin, C.M.S., lets us hear further of the 
 Christian leper spoken of in last report. 
 
 “ Thank you so much for so kindly sending that £6 for 
 our leper friend. He is still witnessing for Christ, hut 
 tinds it very difficult. A few of the inmates of the Asylum 
 are much opposed: some are very friendly, and our brother 
 believes that they would confess Christ were it not for fear 
 of persecution. He frequently asks for prayer for himself 
 and for those who are interested. His wife’s health has 
 failed, and he is very much troubled about her. He sends 
 his best thanks for your kindly help, and asks for your 
 continued prayers.” 
 
 PAKHOI. 
 
 During the year we have sent aid to the Leper Hospital 
 under the care of Dr. Horder, of the C.M.S., to the extent 
 of £110 10s. 
 
 We grieve to say that Dr. Horder has had very poor health 
 and was obliged to go for a time to Japan for change. 
 While he was away Mrs. Horder and Mrs. Beauchamp were 
 alone at Pakhoi, when they had a very anxious time, for 
 amongst other things small-pox broke out in the Hospital. 
 
 The following extracts from Dr. Horder’s Eeport for 1894 
 will I feel sure be of interest: “In November the new 
 leper buildings were opened and they will soon be full to 
 overflowing. The three large wards each accommodate thirty 
 patients, but owing to an insufficient number of workers, 
 one building will, for the present, be devoted to the use 
 of schoolroom and chapel. . . . The two leper boys who 
 dress the terrible sores of their fellow-sufferers have, through¬ 
 out the year, proved themselves most efficient. The teachers 
 and dressers are Christian lepers and the cook is a leper also, 
 and each receives a small wage. 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 57 
 
 “ Thirteen lepers have asked for baptism since the report 
 was in the printer’s hands, and are now receiving special 
 instruction. 
 
 “ During the year we have had two deaths among the lepers, 
 both Christians. One had been very ill for months, and for 
 a long time had been unable to take anything but a little 
 peptonized milk. His sufferings were at the last intense, 
 and we could only rejoice when his spirit left its earthly 
 temple to be for ‘ever with the Lord.’ This man had 
 been a leper for seven years, his brother is a leper also, and 
 an inmate of the Leper Asylum, his father died of leprosy 
 eighteen months ago. 
 
 “ So far we have not been able to commence a building 
 for the reception of women. One great difficulty is our 
 small staff, viz., one Medical Missionary, with one Chinese 
 dispenser, for a Hospital with sixty beds, and a Leper 
 Compound with sixty more. Mrs. Horder, at present, 
 takes entire charge of the Leper Dispensary, which insures 
 the patients being properly dressed and prescribed for. 
 With a little more help in the way of workers from 
 England, we could begin an Asylum for women. 
 
 “ Seven leper women attend the Hospital regularly as out¬ 
 patients, and two live a short distance, and come daily for 
 their rice. 
 
 “The history of one is touching. At the age of ten Sz-che 
 showed signs of leprosy, but being very little marked, 
 married four years later. Eor a time Sz-che lived happily 
 with her husband ; but three years ago, when leprosy 
 developed badly on her face, the man left her, and has not 
 been heard of since. Sz-che was forced to gain her living 
 by begging, until two years ago, when she came to the 
 Hospital. Within the last two months her mother, wishing 
 to make some money, desired to sell her daughter again, and 
 this time to a leper living in the Pakhoi leper village. 
 Sz-che, believing it to be wrong to marry this man, refuses 
 
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 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 to comply with her parent’s wishes. Her mother is now 
 persecuting her in every way possible, and only a few’ days 
 ago set fire to her little hut, in which Sz-che had lived for 
 the last tw’o years. 
 
 “ Sz-che begs us to admit her into the Leper Hospital; but 
 all w’e can do is to give her another hut outdde the 
 Compound.” 
 
 TOKIO, JAPAN. 
 
 Tw’o recent occasional papers have spoken of work among 
 the lepers of Tokio. One poor w’oman had been turned out 
 of two Hospitals, and from the third, “they had been 
 continually sending us word to take her away,” writes Miss 
 Youngman, of the American Presbyterian Mission, “and 
 the poor w’oman was so troubled about a place to stay in, 
 that she promised her body for dissection in order to have a 
 place to die in. It would seem, however, they were tired of 
 waiting for her to die, as for several months before coming 
 to us she could not bathe, and so became much worse. 
 When j'-our draft came, we wrote her of the hope there was 
 that we could provide a place for her soon, and she wrote 
 back that it seemed just as if she were in heaven, to think 
 that she w’as soon to have a place to stay in. When we 
 bought the land for our home, there was a small storehouse 
 belonging to the man w’ho sold us the land, and he let us 
 that for Tsushima. The children of our primary school 
 opened their missionary box, and used the money to purchase 
 what furniture was needed. My little children opened their 
 banks, and purchased several pots of roses in bloom; and so 
 the women’s room was made quite comfortable and pleasant. 
 The authorities would not permit them to bring her to Tokio 
 in either a boat or a jinriksha; so a sedan chair was 
 procured, and the poor woman rode in it from eight in the 
 morning till ten at night. She was delighted with her new 
 home, and soon became much better through the medicinal 
 
THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE EAST. 
 
 59 
 
 baths which we provided for her. After slie had been there 
 about a week, a man who was a member of one of our 
 Tokio churches, a carpenter, became a leper, and having 
 nowhere to go, applied to the Catholic Hospital at Koyama.” 
 This man’s troubles were nearly as many as those of 
 Tsushima; but at last Miss Youngman was applied to. “ I 
 was perplexed,” she writes. “We had but the one room, in 
 which Tsushima was. ... I gave him money to buy tools 
 and lumber, and sent him word to build a rough room to 
 stay in till we got our buildings up. I heard yesterday that 
 the house was up, and I suppose by to-morrow he will be in it. 
 We have no means for his support, and three more have 
 applied. May the Lord put in our hands from some quarter 
 the means needed. ... We are hoping that on the 
 reception of this you may be able to send us some money 
 for the support of the Home. Each leper will cost all of fifty 
 dollars a year, unless they are able to pay something. We 
 can count on nobody’s help but yours yet, though we are 
 hoping for it from other quarters. We ask your most 
 earnest prayers for the work and workers. I never felt 
 such a great responsibility as since this work has been laid 
 upon me. But it is certainly laid upon me by Him who 
 can never err, and so I can rest on His promise ‘ as thy days 
 so shall thy strength be.’ ” 
 
 A second letter tells us that the Leper Home ivas opened 
 on October 1.3th. “One young girl,” continues Miss 
 Youngman, “belonging to the Methodist Church, pays her 
 own board and assists in the care of the Home; that is, 
 the lady missionary who asked us to take her, pays for 
 her. She is only seventeen years old, quite a fine-looking 
 girl, and when she took ill had only three months more 
 before she Avould have graduated in their girls’ school. The 
 only sign of leprosy is in a place about the size of her hand 
 on her body that has no feeling. She is an earnest Christian, 
 and sa_ys when she found she was a leper she prayed that 
 
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 THE LEPERS IN INDIA AND THE BAST. 
 
 the Lord woiilcl lead her to some place where she would he 
 useful to other lepers. She is very happy and useful in the 
 Home. As she reads English, if anyone sends English 
 books for the library, she will be able to use them. I intend 
 to ask donations of Japanese books from the different 
 publishers, and give the library into her charge. Tsushima, 
 the woman so persecuted for three years, has lived to enjoy 
 the Home she pleaded so hard for. She is very unsightly, 
 but has a firm faith and trust in Jesus. If you could see 
 how happy she is in her bright, sunny room, surrounded by 
 so many comforts and flowers, your heart would be filled 
 Avith thanksgiving as ours are. . . . The Japanese are 
 surprised that such a nice place should be built for lepers. 
 . . . The carpenter is making himself very useful, and the 
 other man is a gardener and a cook. Hisa’s father begged 
 her never to come home again, as it Avas such a disgrace to 
 have a leper in the family. . . . Accept my warmest thanks 
 for your past help and sympathy. You can hardly realise 
 Avhat I passed through in that year of waiting; but the 
 clouds have been dispersed, and Ave have come out into the 
 sunlight again. I shall try to do my duty, and I ask your 
 earnest prayers on behalf of the Avork.” 
 
 Our Society now grants £100 a year for the up-keep of 
 the work in Tokio. 
 
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DETAILS OF FOREIGN EXPENDITURE. 
 
 INDIA, BURMA, 
 
 CEYLON. 
 
 
 £ 
 
 S. 
 
 ci. 
 
 Ajmir 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Allahabad . 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Alleppey 
 
 
 
 75 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Almora 
 
 
 
 318 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Anibala 
 
 . • ♦ 
 
 
 33 
 
 14 
 
 0 
 
 Asansol 
 
 
 
 203 
 
 18 
 
 1 
 
 Baba Lakhan 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Bhagulpore 
 
 
 
 390 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 Calcutta 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Chamba 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Chandag 
 
 
 
 422 
 
 19 
 
 ] 
 
 Colombo 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Dehra 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 14 
 
 2 
 
 Dharmsala . 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Europeans . 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 1 
 
 0 
 
 Kalimpong . 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Loliardugga 
 
 
 
 196 
 
 13 
 
 10 
 
 Madras 
 
 
 
 42 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 Mandalay . 
 
 
 
 109 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Jlangalore . 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Moradabad 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Jluzaft’arnagar 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 7 
 
 2 
 
 Neyoor 
 
 
 
 278 
 
 7 
 
 1 
 
 Purulia 
 
 
 
 1569 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 Raniganj 
 
 
 
 366 
 
 13 
 
 10 
 
 Rawal Piudi 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Roha . ... 
 
 
 
 132 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Rurki 
 
 
 
 45 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Sabathu 
 
 
 
 257 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Saharanpore 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 7 
 
 2 
 
 Sehore 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Secretary . 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Travelling expenses . 
 
 
 
 42 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 
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 2 
 
 17 
 
 H 
 
 
 
 £5047 
 
 6 
 
 2i 
 
 CHINA AND 
 
 JAPAN. 
 
 
 * 
 
 
 Hangchow . 
 
 . 90 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 Hiao Kan 
 
 50 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 Kien Ning Eu 
 
 . 20 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 Kucheng 
 
 . 50 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 Lo Nguong . 
 
 6 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 Pakhoi . . . 
 
 . 110 10 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 Kumamoto . . . 
 
 5 0 
 
 0 
 
 331 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 Total £5378 16 2^ 
 
Mission ta f fpjrs in |nbta aitb tj)C 
 
 I^TTLES. 
 
 1. This Association shall be called “ The Mission to Lepers 
 in India and the Last.” Its object shall be to provide for the 
 spiritual instruction and temporal relief of Lepers in India and 
 the East. 
 
 2. The means used shall, amongst others, include— 
 
 {a) The establishment and maintenance of Leper Asylums, where 
 the sulferers shall he under Christian instruction, and when 
 possible receive medical care. 
 
 (b) Grants in aid of existing Asylums in connection with other 
 
 Missionary Societies. 
 
 (c) The maintenance of Christian instruction and worship in 
 
 connection with Asylums where these are not provided. 
 
 3. The Association shall be under the management of the 
 following officers: Patron, President, Vice-Presidents, Hon. 
 Secretary, Hon. Treasurer, and a Committee of seven or more 
 members. The Office-bearers shall be communicant members of 
 one or other of the Protestant Churches ; they shall be elected 
 annually at a meeting of subscribers, of which public notice 
 shall be given. The Committee shall have power to fill up 
 vacancies. At Committee meetings three shall form a quorum. 
 
 4. The Committee shall meet at least three times yearly to 
 make grants and transact other business. Special meetings may 
 be summoned, due notice being given. 
 
 5. The Association shall, as far as possible, work through the 
 agencies of existing Protestant Missionary Societies. 
 
Mission to Lepers in Mia and the East. 
 
 Founded 1874. 
 
 “ Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth His hand, and touched him, and saith 
 unto him, I will; be thou clean,”— Mark i. 41. 
 
 THE MISSION IS UNDENOMINATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL. 
 
 ITS OBJECT IS 
 
 To preach the blessed Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Lepers, and as far 
 as possible to relieve their dreadful sufferings, and provide for their 
 simple wants. The Society also provides homes for the untainted 
 children of leprous parents. 
 
 METHODS. 
 
 (a) The establishment and maintenance of Asylums for Lepers, 
 and Homes for their untainted children; 
 
 {b) Grants in aid of Asylums in connection with other Missionary 
 Societies; 
 
 (c) The maintenance of Christian instruction in Asylums where it 
 is not otherwise provided. 
 
 HOW IT IS SUPPORTED. 
 
 This work is entirely supported by voluntary contributions. Its 
 needs are laid before Christian people, in reliance upon Him who gave 
 it as a special sign of His ministry that the Lepers were cleansed; 
 and as He provides the funds the work is carried on. The Lord has 
 greatly blessed the efforts of the Society in the conversion of souls. 
 There is urgent need to extend its operations. Contributions will be 
 thankfully received by the Secretary and Superintendent, or by any 
 of the Hon. Secretaries or the Hon. Treasurer. 
 
 £6 or $30 will support an adult Leper for one year, and £4 or $20 
 a child. £50 to £100, or $250 to $500, will build a small Home for 
 the untainted children of Lepers. About £150 to £300, or $750 to 
 $1500, will build an Asylum for adult Lepers. 
 
FORM OF BEQUEST. 
 
 I bequeath to ''The Mission to Lepers in India and the East” 
 the sum of sterling, free of legacy duty, for xohich 
 
 legacy the receipt of the Hon. Treasurer or of the Hon. Secretary, for 
 the time being, of the said Society, shall be a sufficient discharge to 
 my executors; and I direct that such legacy, and the duty thereon, 
 shall be paid exclusively out of my pure personal estate. 
 
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS 
 
 GIVING 
 
 Information Regarding the Work of the Mission. 
 
 i Illustrated, Cloth. Price 2s. 6d. 
 
 THE LEPERS OF OUR INDIAN EMPIRE. 
 
 A View of their Condition and Needs in 1890 and 1891. 
 
 Bv WELLESLEY C. BAILEY, 
 
 Secretary and Superintendent, Mission to Lepers in India and the East. 
 
 \ ALSO BY THE SAME AUTHOli. 
 
 Illustrated, Cloth. Price 2s. Qd. New Edition. 
 
 Sewed, Paper Covers, Is. 
 
 i A. Gt3LI]VET»SE 
 
 ; THE INDIAN MISSION FIELD 
 i AND LEPER ASYLUMS 
 
 ! In 1886 and 1887. 
 
 With Portraits and Group of Lepers. Price ^d. 
 
 THE STOE-Y- OE 
 
 THE MISSION TO LEPERS IN INDIA. 
 
 By H. S. CARSON, 
 
 Author of “ Frmn Loom to Lawyer’s Gown.” 
 
 A Pamphlet. Price lo?. 
 
 PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES AND LEPERS. 
 
 By Wellesley C. Bailey. 
 
 May be had from either of the Seoketakies ; or from the 
 
 Publishers, 
 
 Messrs. JOHN F. SHAW AND CO., 
 
 48, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E.C.