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"Good morning, Khatoon (Mrs.) When are you coming to visit me?”
"How would tomorrow afternoon suit you?” answers Mrs. Moerdyk.
•'and shall I bring Miss Jackson along with me?”
"I’ll he very glad to have you both,” answers the patient, who has come
often t& our clinics and received benefit from here treatments. Thus a
door to the hearts of the women is opened, giving the missionary a chance
tor heart-to-heart talks associated with lessons from God’s Holy Word.
And so the work goes on, giving prescriptions for medicines, coupled i
with advice repeated again and again; referring them to helpers for treat­
ment of burns, ulcers, boils, abscesses, injuries, eye and ear diseases; di­
recting care and feeding of infants in arms, undernourished and often !
emaciated; warning against indiscretions of diet and living, etc,—until the
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1 doctor and nurse begin to feel their hearts ache for these unfortunate i
1 women, wishing that they could do more for them in relief of their suf-
I fering, but even more, wishing that they could enlighten their hearts and t
1 better their living conditions. Mohammed will have a great deal to answer 5 . i
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I for in the needless suffering and sorrow to which he has subjected the u 1 ♦
I women of Islam, without offering them any reul hope of deliverance even
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1 in the life to come. And you Christians at home would raise your voices i • \
■I in thanksgiving to God that you are living in Christian homes and environ- \
I inent, if you saw the conditions under which they are living. We hope & 1
1 that in addition to the thankfulness in your hearts when you view the pic- :
I ture of Moslem women here portrayed, you may also raise your voices in !
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I prayer for the relief of these ignorant, unfortunate women- whose suffer- i i • v
1 ing and degradation are the result principally of a religion lacking above ...
1 all the laws of Jesus Christ who gave atonement for their sins. ■: p.
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