An Indian Nurse Converted Through Scripture Reading
THE effect upon even the native mind of simply reading the Scripture is illustrated in the case of an Indian ayah, or child's nurse, who went from India to London with an English family to care for their two boys. For five years she daily listened to the reading of a chapter from the Bible in the Hindustani, followed by the Lord's prayer in the same language. The one who read and prayed was not well acquainted with the language; and as the ayah knew very little English, all conversation on spiritual questions was impossible. She often said, however, that she firmly believed in the Lord Jesus, and a few months ago received Christian baptism, the service being effectively performed in her native tongue. Nothing but the pure Word of God had brought about the conversion of this ignorant, unlettered woman.