THE MISSION TO LEPERS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14830, 22 November 1913, Page 7

THE MISSION TO LEPERS.

WORK IN THE EAST. The October number of "Without the Camp/ , the magazine published by, the Mission to Lopers in India and the East, which has reached us, contains a great doal of interesting information concerning the progress of the mission work. Sir and Mrs Wollosley C. P-iiley,. it will bo remembered, visitedChristehurcli last September in connexion with the Mission. Letters from missionaries in different parts of the- East are published. The Rev. AV-. O'Conner describes the model leper village at Purulia, and Miss Kate P. MeKeaii writes of tho Chingmai Asylum. The sad condition of a colony of lepers in the Valley of Siloam at Jerusalem, and the urgent need for the establishment of a home for women lepers at Tungkun, and for the extension of assistance to tho Kashmiri lepers, are emphasised. ■ Communications from all parts testify to the success of tho Sunday schools established for lepers. A report from one place notes the promotion of a young leper to be teac&er in the asylum at Mourbhanj, and from KotaRainachandrapuram comes tho information that last year seven women passed the oral examination, four taking first grade of over 75 per cent., while six of the young men are now teachere. The condition of the Chinese woman leper appears to be particularly hard. "80 far as I have been able to find ont," writes Dr. J. Mcßurnoy from Do Sing, on the West River, "there are but two courses open to her. either to cast in her lot with one of tho leper men (who perhaps has a wife living), or drown herself." .

The magazine is illustrated with several photographs showing the lepers in the model villages superintended by the Mission.