Word: chandag
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...rule, Protestants forget their saints, but last week Protestants in Manhattan honored Mary Reed, a gently indomitable old lady in India who is the greatest living apostle to the lepers. The occasion was the 50th anniversary of her heading Chandag Leprosarium in the Himalaya foothills...
...Reed chanced to visit a hill-country colony of 500 lepers and became interested in their plight. In 1891, on her first furlough home to the U.S., she learned she had become a leper herself. Without telling her friends, she returned to India, started work among the lepers at Chandag. Because lepers have very little strength, most leprosariums have some non-leper helpers. Chandag had none. Miss Reed preached, healed, built a church and then dormitories, nursed her lepers, organized them into a self-helping community...
...leprosy disappeared after nine years, leaving her with few of the deformities or mutilations common in "burned-out" cases. Mary Reed believes her faith cured her. So do friends who had prayed for her on three continents. Now 86 and almost blind, she still teaches and preaches at Chandag...