Mission to Lepers in Asia
In India, China, and Japan there are more than one million lepers. The great majority of these are miserable outcasts, who have neither help nor hope, and who are left to beg or starve. It is quite impossible for us at home to form an adequate conception of their dreadful hardships. They hover in their wretched hovels from morning till evening, hungry, naked, and cold, with no hope in life or death. The mission to lepers has for twenty-seven years sought out these unhappy men and women burdened with sin, tortured with pain, and cast off from society. This work is carried on at sixty-two stations in India, Burma, Ceylon, China, Japan, and Sumatra. During the last year there were 418 baptisms and 1,797 professed Christians in the mission homes.