In a recent number of _Forward_ the story is told of a
young Chinese slave girl whose mistress brought her to the
Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Canton. She was doomed to
blindness and lameness, so her mistress abandoned her. The
doctors amputated her leg and gave her little tasks to perform
about the place and taught her about the heavenly Father and
Savior. She developed leprosy and was forced to leave these
friends whom she had learned to love, and go to the darkness
and horror of a leper settlement. But she went a Christian,
and in two years that blind, crippled leper built up a band
of Christians in that leper settlement, and in five years a
church grew out of her work. That poor crippled invalid life is
to-day a center of joy and service, and other leper villages are
sending to her to ask about the wonderful good news which can
bring joy even to outcasts.
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=Service, Wrong Conception of=--See SEEKING SERVICE.