WORK AMONG LEPERS

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 23, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 37.

WORK AMONG LEPERS.

DAMIEN'S life and death among the lepers has recalled the example of many others who have shown equal devotion in a like cause. A correspondent has called our attention to the following passage from Rev. Arthur Pierson's "The Crises of Missions:" "In South Africa there was established a hospital for lepers in the vale of Hemelen Aarde, far from other human dwellings, and hemmed in by high rocks. There, in 1822, Rev. Mr. Leitner and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Lehman and John Taylor, afterward at Robben Island, went into voluntary exile for Christ's sake among multitudes of lepers in all stages of their loathsome disease. These Moravian missionaries, filled with heavenly love and anxious to carry the tidings of joy to those in such misery, chose the lazar-house as their field of labor. Some who entered thus, never came out again, but when they died, others, just as devoted and heroic, stood ready to take their places."—Churchman.