St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-07-13
Letter from Palestine.

Extracts from letter. from Miss Mary
Reed, the missionary, who has labored
on Chandag Heights, India, and who
several years ago suffered from leprosy,
will be of interest to many who are es-
pecially interested in her and her work.
The letter is written from Jerusalem.
Palestine, where she is spending her vaca-
ton. and is dated April 9, 1904. There
are now no traces of her dreadful disease
left, except slight scar on her cheek,
which looks as though it might have
BEEN from a burn or any small sore. She
thinks herself quite cured from the mala-
dy, and her general health is good, yet
of work and CONTINENT and care at
Chandag. She has not taken any medi-
cine for ten years. and although she
would like to come home again she
knows that many people would be
afraid. When on her last visit home she
discovered that she was afflicted with the
dreadful malady with which the people
among whom she had worked, had sui
fered, and without letting her people
know of her trouble, she returned to
India. Since then she suffered more than
any one knows and is still ready, and
willing, and best of all, able, to work
again.
II have had two delightful visits to
Bethlehem; never to be forgotten visit
to Hebron; a carriage drive with party
of missionaries to Jaffa; and an all-day
drive from Jaffa away up into Samaria.
One week ago went with a party of
missionary friends to a spot as near
Gethsemane as we were allowed by the
Moslems, to hold a prayer meeting.
They would not allow it in the Garden.
We had precious, never-to- be-fOrgOtten
vesper service, and the next afternoon,
Good Friday, Miss Lowell, The dear sister
friend with whom I am spending three
months in Jerusalem) and I, went all
alone to the brow OF Calvary.
That sacred spot, too, is in the hands
of the Moslems, and is closed. Christians
are no longer permitted to hold meetings
there as formerly, but the Garden of the
Tomb is in the care of Christian care.
takers, and early on Easter morning we,
a little company of eight missionaries
and Mrs. Bishop Newman. went to that
hallowed tomb and, with joyous hymns
and prayers of praise and thanksgiving,
spent r-to-be-forgotten hour inside
the sepulcher. I need not try to tell you
of that hour, nor of the blessed hour we
had on Ohvet. am to spend June, July
and August in Galilee and Syria, spending
most of the time with Miss Ford at Safed.
She is planning to have me accompany
her in tours among the villages in Gallee
in June and July, and hopes I will visit
Damascus and then go up and over the
Lebanon mountains and to the Brumana
conference in August. September may
possibly be spent with one or more sister
missionaries from Palestine, who are need
ing rest and wish me to go with them for
a cruise in the Eastern Mediterranean.
am hoping it will prove to be Coos will
for me to sail India ward in October, and
thatI shall have the privilege of spending
the winter in the Plains, not idly, but in
work wherever there is an
open door for me to enter upon that SER
vice to which my heart has more than
ever been drawn since came to Palestine,
but the call for the winter is to India and
I am more than glad.