Lepers : thirty-one years' work among them; being the history of the Mission to Lepers in India and the East, 1874-1905 / by John Jackson.

  • Jackson, John, 1853-1917.
Date:
1906
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    “ Cleanse the Lepers.” example. In that charge to the twelve which is the original charter of Christian missions. He said “ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead.” So that to minister to these suffering people is no less incumbent on the Church of to-day than are other and more prominent forms of missionary effort. But when we bear in mind that it was not till the dawn of the nineteenth century that the Christian Church began slowly to awaken to the duty of evangelising the world, we need not wonder that it was only during the last quarter of that centur}^ that she began to realise her responsibility to the lepers—at first very slowly, but happily, of recent years, more rapidl}^. Mis- sionaries of many societies have begun to recog- nise that even the leper, outcast and helpless though he is, has his share in the great redemp- tion. Moreover, the Christian spirit that alone inspires and sustains the missionary enterprise is ready to acknowledge his extreme need as his strongest claim. It may be regarded as an evidence alike of the deepening tone and widening scope of Christian missions that the Society, of whose origin and growth this book is the record, is carrying on its beneficent operations in as many as seventy-eight stations. And a gratifying proof that this spirit of Divine compassion and practical helpfulness is permeating Protestant Christianity as a whole, is found in the fact that these stations are maintained in co-operation with missionaries of twenty-seven societies, including British, Continental, American, and Canadian.