MISSIONS TO LEPERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 23, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 50.

MISSIONS TO LEPERS.

"An impression prevails in some quarters," says the Missionary Herald, "that the most self-denying work in behalf of lepers has been done by Roman Catholics. This is not true. There is a society which is especially engaged in work among lepers in India and the east, which has now made its twenty-second annual report. From this report it appears that the efforts for these afflicted ones have been successful of late. The superintendent of one of the asylums of India writes: 'I should like to go on and tell you more and more about these believers in Jesus Christ. Do you

wonder that one's heart is drawn to love them, and to rejoice when we see them responding to the love of God in Christ Jesus? Their sad lot physically strains the cords of pity to breaking sometimes, but the music of rejoicing echoes through the heart when we see them receiving the Lord Jesus into their hearts, and so becoming inspired with hope, joy, and gladness.' It is interesting to note that there are now over 1,000 professing Christians in the various asylums with which the mission is connected."