. "God first" : or, Hester Needham's work in Sumatra : her letters and diaries . . 166 10 CONTENTS CHAPTER VIII. PAGE Village Work. Last Months in Sipoholon . .181 CHAPTER the Way to Mandailing . . . 207 CHAPTER in Little Mandailing 219 CHAPTER XLApproaching the Goal 241 CHAPTER Mandailing 255 CHAPTER First Christian Family in Malintang . .271 CHAPTER to stay, but delighted to go . . 294 ILLUSTRATIONS Hester Needham in 1874 Frontw2)iece The Picture. Christ and the Christian . . p. 14 Map of Sumatra 28 Bath at Siboga 29 Carrying-Chair 30 Palm-leaf Um


. "God first" : or, Hester Needham's work in Sumatra : her letters and diaries . . 166 10 CONTENTS CHAPTER VIII. PAGE Village Work. Last Months in Sipoholon . .181 CHAPTER the Way to Mandailing . . . 207 CHAPTER in Little Mandailing 219 CHAPTER XLApproaching the Goal 241 CHAPTER Mandailing 255 CHAPTER First Christian Family in Malintang . .271 CHAPTER to stay, but delighted to go . . 294 ILLUSTRATIONS Hester Needham in 1874 Frontw2)iece The Picture. Christ and the Christian . . p. 14 Map of Sumatra 28 Bath at Siboga 29 Carrying-Chair 30 Palm-leaf Umbrellas 35 Native Huts 35 The Uses of the Saron 38 Map of the Valley of Silindung 41 A Spider 42 Princess House, Pansur-na-pitu 84 Night School at Sipoholon, showing Sister Kate AND Andreas 167 A Batta Wedding 183 12 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Native Portable Bed 185 Little Misery 197, 198 Map of Great and Little Mandailing .... 207 Map of Great Mandailing . . . 209 House at Muara Sipongi, Little Mandailing . 234Miss Needham and the Bartimeus Family . . 240. in tijat &ai^ t^e £«!-^ wdi) J0i;8- ;)?t:t<?0^ ^u»oru4|)aU mn\p^ t|)at crooked serpentIn ih&i cSaj sin§ ij^e unto jjer J ^!)i^ -^c^^ ^o bep it[fjst am^ Ijwrl: it 4 uidl keep it riujf)} <$• ^aij. HESTER NEEDHAMS WORK SUMATRA INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. Hester Needham, the subject of this memoir and thewriter of the subsequent letters, was born January 23,1^ was the younger of two sisters, daughters of WilliamNeedham, Esq., and Camilla, nee Bosanquet, and her child-hood was spent in happy homes in the country, amidstrefinement and comfort, where strict discipline and educationand free country pleasures and employments were a short period she was at school at Weston-super-Mare. A school-fellow writes of her: I think I can rejoice thatdearest Hester is gone home to rest with her lovingSaviour. Indeed hers has been a marvellous life, and sofull of apparently unswerving faith; and yet, as a girl atschool with me s


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