Lepers in the Himalayas.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 400, 7 September 1889, Page 6

Lepers in the Himalayas.

Tin; death of Father J)amicu has drawn attention to leper settlements in vauous part.-* ot the world, and it is not. well to overlook English men and women who, in India and elsewhere, are proving to be true friend? of the leper. 4 A few days ago,' writes a coriespondent of a Manchester paper, * 1 met the Rev. Henry Coley, of Almora. He says there i.s a leper settlement near him, in the Himalaya Mountains, where theio are an avorago of 107 inmates, in addition to others who even in their misery prefer freedom in their village homes to the more regular comfort protided in the asylum. .Referring- to those lepers, the Rev. J. Hewlett, M.A., who (like Mr Colcy) labours in connection with the London Missionary Society, says that he recently welcomed to church fellowship ninety-six of these lopers, who, under Uod, owed all to the instruction given and the brotherly help showed by another Englishman, the Re\. -John Henry Buddon. Ido not want to pluck one flower from the gra\e of the Belgian piiest on the shores of Molokai, but I think we should not overlook the work which Ls being done so well by agents oi the English Free Churches in various partfo ef the world.