The Caldwell tribune., 1905-11-04

when diphtheria came among then
and the children began dying.
There Is no help for it," said the
priest to the mission school teacher
There Is strain Of the Moor or Arab
In them, and under the forms Of their
Christian faith they are fatalists You
cannot change their stolld submission
TO what comes upon them nor break up
their immemorial customs"
But to the teacher 1t seemed terri
Die thing that the disease was spread
Ing unchecked, and that every facility
was given it for transmission to all the
homes in the village.
"Do not let people come to visit your
child" she pleaded with the mother of
sick girl.
1T Is a duty to visit the SICK" re-
piled the mother
But the children who come will
themselves be sick" said the teacher
1T may be so," said the mother. 'If
30, 1t Is Of God"
The disease went on until almost
every home was in mourning, ike
Egypt after the death Of the tirst-born.
At last one family accepted the
teachers advice, and against great
protest she established a quarantine.
She had sent to Albuquerque and OBJ
ta1ned some antitoxin, and she admin
1stered this to fifteen children,
Meantime there arose fearful NUT
ter1ng of discomfort. From all genera
dons the people had gone to visit their
friends who were sick. taking their
children with them. Who was this
young woman from that mythical re-
gion, "the States," who usurped all
thority over them? Was it not of God
Wnen they were sick? And who dared
withstand Him by denying to the sick
the comfort Of the visits Of their
friends?
Ihere was danger of riot, but the
priest interyened. This young woman,
though a Protestant" said he. has
come in the love Of God 1t is Of God
that she has come, and If her teachings
be not all of them those of the true
ra1th, yet is her life a Christian life.
and her words are good for you to hear
when you are sick. She has borne
great risk in caring for your children.
Would you do her harm? Even now
she is sick, with sickness contracted In
caring for your little ones"
Sick indeed she was, and all the
medicine was gone. 1t seemed that she
must die, and some Of the people said.
1T Is Of God. She refused to let us
Visit the sick, and God is angry with
ler"
But the little schoolmistress recov-
red, and by the time she grew we'll
mere were facts which forced Them
elVes into recognition. The families
hat had obeyed the teacher, and had
lot visited or permitted their children
o visit those who were sick Of the
Lread disease, had suffered least
Nh1le more than half of the children
Tho had taken the disease had died
ourteen Of the fifteen whom she had
reated had recovered. AS her illness
rogressed, the people stood in increas-
lg numbers before her door, and sent
nelr messages of affection, and the
ews that one and another of their
hildren were recovering. t
1t was this that seemed tn firm tbo l
de in the case Of the teacher. sicj,
ne was, and near to death, but at last
er health returned. The town had s
'st one-third Of all Its children. but If G
ad learned lesson which would nre- {
ent another slaughter of the inno- t
ants. I
1T was Of God, and we must NOT Q
said the mothers, when t
gain the teacher visited their homes S
nd one of them added: t
Yes, and the teacher, also, is Of Q
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