1.06.0000. Book 6: Preface - By H. C. G. Moule

NOTE TO THIRD EDITION*

I T is always a surprise to me when a book has to be reprinted, and I am very grateful, for it must mean that new friends have been given to us. And we need them. We have seen over a thousand children pass out of the shadow cast by the temple walls since first Ponnammal and I went up and down the villages and towns trying to find a way to save even one. The Lord and Lover of children Himself found a way, and now, as all who have read our later stories know, we are far more than nurseries (though the nursery is still the core of the work), and so we need new friends. To all who will read this story of a dear Indian sister we send our loving thanks for giving time, perhaps out of a crowded day, to care for these little ones who are so precious to their Lord.

A.C.

*In reading please remember the date of writing; we have now a Place of Healing, doctors, trained nurses. Such chapters as ch. 10 are happily of the past.