. The gospel in South India : or the religious life, experience, and character of the Hindu Christians . said: My daughter was verydear to me, as well as to madam, the teachers, andall her friends. She was very dear also to God,so He took her from this world to be with her crying, I told her about the death ofthe widows son, and that Jesus is able to comfortevery one of us. I told her we should all one daydepart from this world, as her daughter had, andmust appear before God. She then asked me,When shall we go there? Shall I see mydaughter there? I told her no one knew thetime, and
. The gospel in South India : or the religious life, experience, and character of the Hindu Christians . said: My daughter was verydear to me, as well as to madam, the teachers, andall her friends. She was very dear also to God,so He took her from this world to be with her crying, I told her about the death ofthe widows son, and that Jesus is able to comfortevery one of us. I told her we should all one daydepart from this world, as her daughter had, andmust appear before God. She then asked me,When shall we go there? Shall I see mydaughter there? I told her no one knew thetime, and advised her to become a Christian, thatshe might appear at the right hand of Jesus. Shethen said, I believe on the Lord Jesus alone, asshe did. May He break the tide of my sorrowsvery soon! We hope to see this little heathen 202 THE GOSPEL IN SOUTH INDIA. girl and many more shining as stars in tlic realmsabove, and arc encouraged to go on sowing theseed. In the mission liospital, also, heathen childrenare sometimes received, feeble and diseased in body,and smik in the deepest ignorance of spiritual. ciiiLriiEi; s COTS. things; but under the loving and skilful treatmentof the doctor and the medical evangelists they arehealed and renewed in soul as well as body. Theignorance of some of these children is boy aged fifteen fell from a tall palm treewhich he was climbing to collect the sap, and broke EARLY PIETY. 203 his leg. In the hospital it was difficult to makehim understand even that he was a sinner. * Hewas not a sinner, he insisted, before his fall fromthe tree. If he had sinned at all, it was only incutting green and immature leaves from the palmtree! * In the mission hospital at Neyoor several cots forsick children are supported by special contributionsfrom Sunday-school scholars in various parts ofGreat Britain. Last year two little children, aged respectivelythirteen and eleven, came from the hills ill withfever. They were cured and dismissed, but sooncame
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