The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . Iir^noo TEMPLE TiENARKS, IN A STATE OF DECAY 682 The Illustrated History of Methodism. BISHOP J. M. THOBURN,Of the India Mission- for treatment. To her horror she dis-covered that she was suffering from lep-rosy. She then resolved to return to theEast, and devote herself to her fellow-mortals there who were suffering in the
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . Iir^noo TEMPLE TiENARKS, IN A STATE OF DECAY 682 The Illustrated History of Methodism. BISHOP J. M. THOBURN,Of the India Mission- for treatment. To her horror she dis-covered that she was suffering from lep-rosy. She then resolved to return to theEast, and devote herself to her fellow-mortals there who were suffering in thesame sad way. She knew that therelived at Pithoragarh, at the foot ofChandag Heights, among the Hima-layas, a group of outcast lepers, andthither she proceeded. Only one ofher relatives, a sister, was in her confi-dence when she left home in 1891. Theintervening years have been a record ofpatient and successful work, and an in-stitution has been built up that in manyrespects is a model of orderliness andexcellence. Happily, seven years later,the physicians began to hold out hope ofultimate recovery, and could at least de-clare that the disease was checked. Other leper work has been attended toby Methodist missionaries. For severalyears an establishment has been in op-eration at Mandalay, in Burma, first under the charge of the Rev. W , of the
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