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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 41.

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To See the Missionary’s Face

By G. A. Ellingworth

SHORTLY after midnight, on Sabbath morning, the watchman called me up, saying a man had been bitten by a snake and needed attention. I quickly made incisions around the wound, put in potassium permanganate, and bound it up. Next morning at six o’clock the watchman reported the man to be all right; but on going down just before breakfast, I found the patient suffering considerably and in a critical condition. Brother Robinson and I quickly treated him with hot and cold applications, keeping this up for about two hours before we deemed it safe to leave him to the care of native boys, while we had our belated Sabbath breakfast. After breakfast the treatments were kept up at intervals till afternoon, when the patient had a good sleep, and in two days was all right. A few days later came the now-well man with another native. I asked them what they wanted, and the cured man said: “This is my brother; he came from our home to take my things, as he thought I should be dead. Now he wishes to see your face, as you have cured me.”
G. A. ELLINGWORTH.
Malamulo Mission, Nyasaland.