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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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he has growngradually strong and well. Her father, being unable to pay in coin of therealm for the benefit which she had received, true to Oriental custom didthe next best thing, and presented his daughter to the doctor outright, say-ing, You have cured her, and she is yours to do with as you will. Inthe hospital all her dormant faculties seemed to have developed, and with it-a remarkable capacity of devotion to the doctor, as well as real talent for 62 LIFE AND LIGHT. \_Februaryy. nursino-. Every week she is a regular attendant at the little Greek Sundayschool which is conducted in her native village by one of the missionaryladies. This village, under the shadow of our walls, is a nucleus of pov-erty and dirt, but several of its members have been for a longer or shortertime within the hospital. May we not hope that some of the words of Jesus,carried back into their homes, have kindled a light there which will notflicker out? Of the nurses, another came about the same time in rags, to
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PATIENT COMING TO THE HOSPITAL. the Dispensary, from one of the lowest homes in the city. Her eyes werefast growing blind, and 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

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