MISSION TO LEPERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1858, 18 September 1913, Page 5

MISSION TO LEPERS.

Tho foundor and superintendent of tho Mission to Lepers in India and tho East, Mr. Wellesfoy C. Bailey, kept a large audience in St. John's class-room interested last night, by his graphic description of missionary work among sufferers from this dread malady in India and the East. Tho noblo self-sacrifica displayed by the medical missionaries who (iw.'.e their lives and labours to this causo, ho said, displayed Christianity at its highest and best. Tho movement was started by Mr. Bailey .43 years ago when, a young man, ho gathered together a band of 40 lepers. To-day in 14 different countries, 10,700 lepers and children aro supported and benefited at 80 stations connected with rho mission.

Tho Indian Government, recognising in the mission a means of stamping out tho disease, are heartily co-operating with it. An interesting branch of tho work is the rescuing of the tainted children of tho lepers. Doctors Iwo pronounced the disease as not .hereditary, and hore again the mission is doing humanitarian work by caring for tho untainted children of leprous patents, and thus robbing tho discas; r.f perhaps its surest sourco of victims The meeting was presided over by tho ltov. Dr. Gibb.

In tho Baptist Church, Vivian Street, Mrs. Bailey, wife of the nussioner, who is also a worker in the field, spoke on tho same lines. The Ret. A. T. Braiusby was in tho chair, and there was a good attendance.