A Story About a Doll

“I must tell you a story of a doll. It was told me by the missionary himself, Mr. Bullock of Almora, Himalayas. One day a parcel, addressed to him, arrived by parcel post. A little gathering immediately assembled in his study, full of curiosity as to what the parcel contained, and from whom it came. Slowly and carefully he unfastened the string and removed the paper, corning, after a little while, to a roll of cotton wool, which he unwound, to find inside a beautiful leather doll, dressed in a most expensive style in silks and laces.
“Upon it lay a note to him, saying the doll had been sent by a lady in England, who loved Bháwani, and wished her to have a token of her love, and to know how great was her longing that Bháwani should love the Lord Jesus. There was also a little note to Bháwani herself, telling her how this lady loved and prayed for her, and longed that she might belong to the dear Lord Jesus, who had so loved her, and that she had sent her this don as a proof of her love to her.
“What a present for a leper girl? ‘Too good, too lovely!’ does anyone say? What can be too good for the least of the little ones for whom the Lord Jesus shed His precious blood?
“The doll was carried to the asylum, and, when Bháwani got it, she hugged it in her joy. The letter was then read to her, and poor Bháwani was melted to tears at the thought of anyone loving her like that. She begged that the dear, kind lady might receive her grateful thanks, and be told that she would try to love Jesus, who had been so kind to her.
“A few weeks afterward she did definitely give herself to the dear Lord, led to Him, humanly speaking, by that dear far-off friend.”
We add no word of ours to this, but close with Mrs. Bailey’s request.
“I would ask prayer for our dear brother, Mr. Uffmann, whose health is very far from good. He has been sent to the hills to recruit, much against his will.”