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Title: Life and light for woman
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's Board of Missions
Subjects: Congregational churches
Publisher: (Boston : Woman's Boards of Missions
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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nd already in such a bad condition that she could notwork to earn her daily bread. As they grew better under treatment, herheart was full of gratitude to the doctor, and she asked to be allowed towork for the hospital. She, too, has developed a latent talent for nursing. Among the faces always upturned with a smile ready for whoever passesdown the aisles, is that of the little girl who occupies the bed in the corner.She comes from one of the outstations of our district, on the Black Sea •) >3E^ MISSION WORK IN MARSOVAN. 63 coast, and was brought into the hospital unable to walk, suffering fromspinal disease. She has borne patiently and bravely the discomforts of aplaster cast, and can now move about the ward and veranda without pain.All that she has heard of the words of Christ she has listened to mosteagerly, and has borne her sufferings with a spirit which has won the loveof all. Her bed in the corner is the special parish of the missionarychildren when they visit the hospital.
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WOMAN S WARD, MARSOVAX lIObPlTAL. In the bed adjoining is a child who was brought in from the Girls*Orphanage for an operation upon the heels, both of which were frozenwhen the child was found by some of the missionaries, wandering aroundthe streets of a neighboring town, homeless, in the midst of winter. Thereare two Mohainmedan women in the wards at present, both of whom areeager to hear the Bible read, one of them often asking when the lesson is 64 LIFE AND LIGHT. \^February. finislied : Wont you read more? They are beautiful words. I want tohear more. The college ward of the hospital is presided over by one ofthe college boys, who is earning money in this way to pay for his tuition.These beds are reserved for the two hundred college boys who are with us. The results won by antiseptic surgery have not ceased to be a marvel inthis land. Into the mens ward was brought, not long ago, a Turk whohad been stabbed in the back, the cut penetrating several inches into theleft lung. The woun

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