MILLIONS OF WIDOWS.
In India there are 25 millions of widows. Tbe fact is arresting, but when it is remembered that the greater number of these widows range from 13 years of age down to babyhood the imagination is staggered. Such a condition of affairs springs from the tact that to have a daughter unmarried after the age of 13 is regarded as a disgrace to the patents. Fiftysix years ago, in the interests of reform, a cultured Indian braved persecution from his people by refusing to have his daughter married at such a tender age. The father perished by famine, but the daughter developed into a beautiful woman of rare scholarship, in whom the desire to secure better conditions for the women of India in general, and for the helpless, cruelly wronged child wives in particular, became a passion. That patriot has become known to the world as Ramabai, and the centre of her field of work is Mukti, where as many as 2000 Indian girls at a time are cared for, educated and trained in the work of enlightening their people and spreading the message of Christianity
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1235, 21 April 1914, Page 4
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189MILLIONS OF WIDOWS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1235, 21 April 1914, Page 4
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