. Missionary Visitor, The (1904). ll the storekeeper what theywant. When their goods are ready theyare thrown to them—not handed; andthey in turn drop or throw the moneyinto the storekeepers hand. If a good Hindoo touched one of thesepeople he would be defiled. Seeing thatwe have to rent a building for our workwe are obliged to comply with the Hin-doo requirements and keep these peo- ple out. Only to-day one of these un-fortunates ventured into our receptionroom. He was not from our immediatevicinity and I did not recognize hiscaste, but my neighbors did, and one ofthem quickly came and ordere
. Missionary Visitor, The (1904). ll the storekeeper what theywant. When their goods are ready theyare thrown to them—not handed; andthey in turn drop or throw the moneyinto the storekeepers hand. If a good Hindoo touched one of thesepeople he would be defiled. Seeing thatwe have to rent a building for our workwe are obliged to comply with the Hin-doo requirements and keep these peo- ple out. Only to-day one of these un-fortunates ventured into our receptionroom. He was not from our immediatevicinity and I did not recognize hiscaste, but my neighbors did, and one ofthem quickly came and ordered him to clear out of there at once. The pa-tient looked at me imploringly but Ihad to ask him to step out. It cuts tothe core to have to submit to such bar-barism, but there is no other way outof it just now. About two weeks ago another man ofthe same caste came to me for treat-ment. He had a large abscess and it hadto be lanced, but I could not ask him tocome in. So I went out and made himlie down on the street, and under the. gaze of a large crowd which soon gath-ered around us, and the blaze of thehot noon-day sun, I lanced the abscess. The foregoing instances are not unus-ual ones at all—all the patients comingto us from these four castes who needto be handled, are treated on the we had a building of our own allthis could be avoided; and having thepeople comfortably housed one or moreof our native workers could be plantingthe seed of the Kingdom while the sickare waiting their turn to see the there is one thing in this connectionon which I look with great is this. I have two boys to assist mein my work. One is a Christian orphanfrom our Anklesvar orphanage, the oth- 548 THE MISSIONARY VISITOR [December, 1904 er a Hindoo wandering waif which wepicked up on the street a month of these go out on the street andhandle these low caste patients—a thingwhich none of the onlookers would we are laying the ax at the rootof t
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