In the Dispensary

IN one Hindoo patient we are much interested. Her home is not far from the Christian parah, and she had already heard a good deal about Christianity.
She met us in the road, and begged us to come into her compound. This we did, and had many attentive listeners. When we rose to go, the Bible-women told her to show we her foot, which had a very bad open sore, and she asked if we could do anything for it at the dispensary. I feared it was too bad, but told her she might come and see. We told her we were not at all sure it would get well, yet she might pray to the Lord Jesus, for with Him nothing was impossible. After long, patient waiting, and many dressings, it did quite heal, and this patient never forgot it was His doing. She came again and again, not always for herself or her own household, but if any of her neighbors wanted medicine, she seemed glad of the excuse, and she always wanted to hear about Jesus Christ.
After obtaining the medicines she would sit down again, and eagerly listen to all that was told her. Whenever I went to her village she wanted me to go to her house. Many times I had to refuse. When we were able to go she was not content with hearing herself, but would call her neighbors, and make all in her own compound leave their work to listen. Soon a happy look came into her face. She assured us that Jesus Christ had given her peace in her heart, and that she never prayed to any but Him. She has a deep sense of sin. Sometimes in talking with her I have wished that some of the Christian women had as clear a knowledge of sin, of a Saviour, and of forgiveness.