WORK AMONG LEPERS
“NO LONGER HOPELESS!” MISSIONARY WORK IN INDIA “Ten years ago leprosy seemed quite Hopeless. Apparently there was no cure for this ancient disease. In India to-day we are discharging people as cured/’’ For 2T years the Rev. R. J. Grundy, Baptist minister, had laboured for Christianity among: the masses of
India. Of recent years, however, his \ interests have been devoted to work among the lepers, v though he found time to control the press publications of his church. Mr. Grundy, accompanied by Mrs. ! Grundy, arrived in Auckland to-day on a special mission to the New Zealand churches for the purpose of creating interest in his leper settlement at Cultack. Mr. Grundy, who travelled on j the Ulimaroa from Sydney, also wants to learn something about Makogai. the Pacific leper settlement. Three hundred lepers were discharged last year as free of leper j symptoms, declared Mr. Grundy, who ; said that science had made extraordinary progress in the treatment of this disease in India.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 290, 28 February 1928, Page 8
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165WORK AMONG LEPERS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 290, 28 February 1928, Page 8
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