The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-27
Restoration to Health From lie.
prOSy is Reported.
THE CASE OF A MISSIONARY
Miss Mary Reed. Who Was Working
In India-Ths Testimony of
Noted Expert.
christian Herald, Jan. A.

tChrIStlan Herald, Jan. II
Many of our readers were deeply in
terested in the thrilling story of Mary
Reed, the leper missionary, which DR..
Louis Albert Banks told in this journ-
al on June 8, 1897. They will be de-
lighted TO hear the sequel TO that sto-
~ which has just been received with
a photograph of the lady. which we
reproduce in this column.
Miss Reed is a native of Lowell,
Washington Co.. O., where she was
born December, 1854. For several
years she taught school in neighboring
towns, until the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, accepted her offer
to go as a missionary to India. She
arrived in that land September, 1884,
ami began work at CawnpOre.
1t will be remem bered that Miss
Reed, who had been laboring among
the lepers of India, was on her way to
her home in Ohio for a brief period of
rest and recuperatiOn, when she saw,
with CONSERVATION, spots on her hand
and arm which she recognized as The
first symptoms of leprOsy. She had
seen too many victims of the dread
disease to have any doubt about the
nature of the malady which produced
these ominous spots. But in order to
satisfy others, she consulted eminent
specialist in London and Paris, and
they confirmed her own diagnosis.
She Immediately came to the con-
clusion that her terrible condition was
a direct indication of Gods will as
to her future course. Instead Of col
lapsing under the discovery and la
menting the evil which was blasting
her young life, she turned her face
toward the abode of those similarly
afflicted and promptly returned to In
dia to give her life to service among
the lepers. On her arrival her friends
were inexpressibly shocked to learn
the cause of her sudden and uneX-
pected return. They begged her to
consult the famous brigade-surgeOn of
India, Dr. ]. II. Condor, whose knowl-
edge of the diseases of India Is unsur-
passed. To content them she consent
ed, though she foresaw the opinion he
unhesitatingly pronounced, that she
was undoubtedly leper. He gave her
the usual directions and prescribed for
her the remedies which alleviate the
sufferings of the victims Of the dis
ease. Miss Reed also asked the pray
ers of her friends and then, bidding
them farewell forever, went direct to
the leper settlement at PithOragarh,
to give the remainder of her days TO
ministry among the afflicted inmates.
For some months past the letters
that have reached her Ohio home from
her retreat, have described her health
as wonderfully improving. Now, to
the surprise and joy of her friends,
there has come extraordinary news
Miss Reed has paid another visit to
Dr. Condor, and to his own surprise
as much as to that of all who know
her case, he pronounces her cured. Il
I'M cured Miss Reed writes, mot by
medicines, but by the Great Physician
in answer to prayer" So marvellous
4 recovery is a matter for devout
-hankfulness, and it will bring joy to
he many people in this land, who
have made her case a matter of
prayer.