A bed in the Bannu mission hospital in India is known as “The
Christian’s Revenge.” It is supported by a sister of Captain
Conolly, who was cruelly murdered by order of the Ameer of
Bokhara after long incarceration and many tortures, because he
refused to become a Mussulman. She endowed this bed twenty-one
years after the captain’s death, when a full account of his
sufferings, written by his own hand in prison, came unexpectedly
to light, a little prayer-book containing the record coming into
the hands of his relatives.
That bed is an object-lesson to the inmates and visitors of the
hospital, teaching the gentle and forgiving spirit that the gospel of
Jesus ever breathes and inculcates.
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