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Title: In leper-land : being a record of my tour of 7,000 miles among Indian lepers ; including some notes on missions and an account of eleven days with Miss Mary Reed and her lepers
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, John, 1853-1917
Subjects: Leprosy -- India Missions -- India Missions to lepers
Publisher: London : Marshall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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stitution which bids fair tobecome a model leper village. In 1886 Rev. H.Uffman (of Gossners Evangelical Mission) was, likehis Divine Master, moved with compassion for thestricken outcasts who soon learnt that the compoundof the Missionary bungalow was a haven where theywere not only free from insult and persecution, butwere, relieved and comforted. They came inincreasing numbers, until it became imperative thatsome permanent provision should be made for them.About this time, also, the expulsion of a number oflepers from the huts they had found shelter in, toonear to the town, emphasized the need for aChristian Asylum. Probably for sanitary reasons,the local authorities decided that this colony ofdiseased outcasts must be evicted. The lepers wereturned out; the poor huts which were their onlyhomes were burned to the ground, they themselves inmany cases lying down to die under the trees. But,once again, mans extremity was Gods oppor-tunity, and through His servants the Compassionate 48
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The late Rev. H. Uffmann, Founder, and for 14 years Superintendent of thePuFulia Leper Asylum. PURULIA LEPER VILLAGE 49 Christ came to the rescue of those who were home-less, helpless, and hopeless. An appeal was made tothe Misson to Lepers, temporary relief was given,and soon a small Asylum was erected. In laying thefirst stone of the new buildings, the late ProfessorPlath (Secretary of Gossners Misson) spoke asfollows:— Let me explain how this has come about.Christian friends in Great Britain have a Societyfor a charitable purpose. They wish to foundAsylums for the poor outcast lepers of India; theygive and collect money for this work ; they look forhelping hands in this country, which will be stretchedout to these unhappy people ; and behold here are the German Missionaries From Great Britain comes the money, Berlin gives the men, anda native gentleman has given this piece of groundfor the buildings. Now may God bless the lay-ing of this foundation, and grant that it maybe for th

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