Tibetan Converts Face Persecution
Tibet, refractory Tibet, can be reached and made to see and hear. Three years ago a Tibetan lama named Khomfel was converted through the preaching of Moravian missionaries from Leh, in Kashmir. He was an able man; was taught, and finally sent to preach Christ in Kalatse, near the Tibetan border, the very place where he used to serve Buddha. Now the Moravians tell us of the baptism, at Leh, of five Tibetans from Kalatse, converted through the preaching of Khomfel. “Be what you like; be a Mohammedan if you choose; but if you become a Christian, we will disinherit you!”—this is the threat hurled at one of these new converts by his friends. It was carried out to the letter, too.