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Ituili. Hill ing the dull' |lacking ktM Miimiu r, .,iu- ui iltc ..i, K .,lli.wv.|
|.\ Ik*r parents in May mi at lliu wanks while the family wa nt in i|„- |,:uu
ami ihcv also allowed her to make such arrangement-, over Satmala>
mu'
i.ifthl as to make it possible for her to attend our serviees and the ela-’s
.11 Sunday, then to spend the day with me and walk I..... . in the eool nl
It was a gesture of cmdideiK'e which 1 treasure.
\iii* day.
KaVly last summer oik: mother told me that considerable up|m»iii«hi
abroad because the girls were coining to our services, but this woman's
. . was
iiaiighter, l'- , said, “None of these objectors has ever tried to be a
ii iciid bJ me so l am not going to <|uit going,” and in spite of threats the
i;i1Is have continued to come, overriding ohjeelioiis somehow. K- -
her mother have always shown a desire to think of spiritual things the
mother more openly so, yet it was with K------that l had the moNi^hieri
. .uversation about sin, sinners and the Saviour, a conversation which
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Ulcd l"o hours, but one E------seemed to he asking for and where the
spirit of lhe Lord seemed it; he brooding over her. About eight months
»»ur she and her mother were stricken with pneumonia, the nmther first
| —- next, and both of them died after a short illness. ju>t a day apart.
1 Ik* poverty of that hovel would he hard to descri!>c. Perhaps we mav I
i.il some idea if we make a list of what, to us, secm.s to he the hareM
Micssilics, and then we deliberately scratch oil fruin this list almost every-
il,i„^ named, even the cup of cold water, which also was not there except
we arranged lu have it brought. Such poverty means lilt Ii, and it means I I •
Kiluitirishiueiil also. The lather had died two mouths before. The
Uhl ;
i.l.lot sou was the bread-winner, earning twenty cents a day. 'There were
tbicc other hoys, twelve, six, and three years old, two of whom also had 1
pmuimmia. 'The government hospital is the last resort with these people
..ml one they will not take. Rightly or wrongly so, these people fear the
•La*. It was difficult to do much for these patients and what was dime
f no physical benefit. Kaeh time 1 saw them the mother assured
w.l> o
me that she was going to die, and she asked me to tell her about “Ksa
j ll.ii,” Jesus who is alive, and K asked me to pray with them. It
sacred privilege to point the tired eves and hearts to the Light of
w .in a
the World who was waiting to pilot them through death’s dark valley.
A third pneumonia patient, a neighbor of the two who died, recovered.
,i.<l ubat little I was able to do for her from a distance was the means of
Jumping her lather’s altitude, lie had allowed his daughter to work for
u* but he and his son feared our influence and he had warned the girl
lie at least is friendly now and does not avoid hearing the
,^jin>l Us.
lie is an old man and his son and daughter are both working.
t*H *N,lgC.
U.t n is they who are helping to care for the three smaller orphans who
\cu* so suddenly and so surely bereft of father, mother and sister. And
ibe work goes on.
u I
“Sown in the darkness, or sown in the light ;
!
Sown in our weakness or sown in our might :
(lathered in time or eternity. !
Sure, ah sure, will the harvest l e."