The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-12-04

rose. unfzilipg in resource. excelifng
n patience. undzuuted By adversely. .
as one describes her. cannot be limit
d by place The gaunt shadow Of
famine falls upon the central prov
noes o. India. and Ramzhsi. filed
xith memories OF what she once en-
lursd. would ~ TO the rescue Of child
Eives and widows in Pennry and tg-
loEance. in filth and sqBslOT. facing
iesth. She slztches them from
deaths worse than By hunger and dis
ass. from government places and Of
icials. from brutal men and unnatural
mothers. She picks them up from the
treets. from waysides and in the for
ssts. where hungry wolves were on
heir tracks Fifty or more she sent
O the Sadan. But she had asked the
Lord 10 give her three hundred Where
should she put them9
Forty miles south of Poona is Ked-
zaum. Here some time previous 10
the famine Ramabai had bought
farm OF one hundred acres, where veg
etables. grains and fruits might be
raised for the sustenance Of her pu-
pills. The first year after the purchase
twenty-five hundred oranges trees
were already planted under her super
vision. She had wished 20 put up
iorniitories, but the government OBJ
iected and she replied. Il will build 4
barn for buIiocks and grain" With
faith and hope as her architect she
built largely and firmly, and by the
time the building was ready for occu-
pancy she had permission 10 put girls
into il instead of cattle. and two
hundred famine widows found shelter
within its walls. 1t also served for
chapel and school house. In a ground
plan OF the establishment at kedgaum
we see the grand scale on which the
work is devised. on which buildings
are already erected and are yet to be
constructed. when means shall be
forthcoming There is a hospital for
women, another for children: there
are various dormitories. finished and
unfinished, and school rooms; a
church and schoolroom. zee feet long.
in construction; a projected industrial
school, store rooms and bathing tanks.
Most fittingly is this home called
"Mukti'' (Salvation) Rev. A. T. Pier
son writes of it thus. 1T is not q place
OF likeness. DuI HiN6 VI
Education for the mind, salvation for
the soul and occupation for the body
is the threefold law. Washing and
weaving. cooking and sweeping, grow
ing grain and grinding it. flower cul-
ture and fruit raising; these are some
of the industries in which the girls are
trained. and which contribute toward
their support. The teachers are ex-
clusively Christian, and the settlement
is truly a missionary center" Several
hundred of the sixteen hundred of the
1900 widows and orphan girls who
have been brought to the shelter of
Mukti have come also in TO the shelter
of the Good Shepherds fold They
were once wild. greedy and selfish
now they are loving and gentle, full
of sympathy and responsive to the
call for help for other needy ones.
When told of the Student Volunteer
Movement thirty-five at once volun-
teered to be ready for training for
evangelistic work. When they heard
about the orphans in Armenia. help
less and famished by reason of the aw-
full massacre there, they cheerfully
denied themselves one meal on Sun
DAYS that what was thus saved in the
expenses of Mukti might be sent TO