Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-18

women and children, all needing help.
minister to their bodily needs, as best I
can. then I sit down on the mud floor and
offer to tell them a story. They are ready
to listen and gave them at once In kinder
garten form, a BIT from the ''old, old story"
The next day the court Is SO crowded
that there Is no place for me to sit and at
the end Of week I open my dispensary
and they come to me-
Meantime they talked much to her, ask
ed her innumerable questions about her
dI ess, her hair, her teeth. her habits of life.
They were especially amazed because she
wore no jewelry. that being their one ambi-
ton In life, to have many Jewels. Many OF
the women who came to her had worn
such heavy ea4atngs that the lobes of their
ears had beeUt)rn away and they had been
compelled to contrfve wire bands to go
around their heads to hold their ear Jew
els! They wore bracelets, rows of them,
from the wrists to the armpits. and nose
rings set with Jewels. She tried to explain
to them that she did not care to spend her
money for jewelry, but had interests much
more important. I want many books
she said. and papers; want to read them
and study them and be WISE. Don't you
mean to buy any jewels at all?' they asked
her
We'll she said perhaps, after get all
the other things like better might some
time buy little iewelry; l don't know.
She said she was going on to explain how
little likelihood there was that she would
ever have money to spare for jewels. be-
cause there were so many other things that
she wanted more, when one woman inter-
rupted her with, Well, If you don't ever
have any other jewelry, do buy a nose ring.
because you really would look perfectly
sweet in a nose ring!' Then she told US
about Nonine. She was one of the famine
children who was rescued. She was fear
full specimen of dirt and bones, too horri-
BILE to describe, almost too horrible to
touch, yet she was rescued and bathed and
fed until the time came when she was
clean and comfortably hungry. But when
her troubles were nearly over theirs with
her were Just beginning, and for months
together she led them a terrible life She
certainly had temper of her own! said
DR.. Allen. One day she was fearfully an
cry at me, and knowing that set much
store by my Kerosene lamp, she determined
to spite me by emptying out all the oil, but
there being no place for her to empty 1t
without being discovered. she drank IT.
However, the time came when Nonine be-
came a new creature In Christ, and was
their trusted helper In caring for the fam
Inc children. Yet, one day, her ruling pas
sion, love for jewelry, came upon her and
overwhelmed her. She stole the flour which
was to be made into bread for the famine
sufferers, and sold it to a travelling peddler
for a gilded ring! Her downfall was sus-
pected and found out and mourned over.
and at last in bitterness of soul she con-
fessed 1t. We knelt down to pray said
DR.. Allen, and that little girl, just one
year removed from the lowest depths of
heathenism prayed these words, "Oh, dear
Lord, my Jesus, do make me care much
less about jewels for my body and much
more about jewels for my heart.
Go to sorne doctor you know and ask him
to tell you a story of his own experience
how his profession has given him opnor
tunity to serve Christ Perhaps he will
suggest some practical ways In which
Christian people might help Christian doc
tors to do good.
Parallel Passages: Matthew, viii:5,6;
Luke iv:33, IS, 49, James. VIA, Is; Psalms.
cii:2, 3; Psalms, cvii:20; Matthew, XII; Mat
thew, fx:2S, 80; Acts, xiv:S-10; Matthew,
xxit:23; Mark. v:22, %. AZ.
Hints to the Leader.
The Endeavor Hymnal, 81. 14O. 142, IA,
100. 22e.
Get from your UNCONVENTIONAL board
items of facts about hospital work in diff
ferent countries. There are many beauti-
full true stories easily obtainable Try to
arouse the interest and sympathy through
these, and you may be able to have some
practical result at the close of the meeting
In the shape Of pledge on the part of the
society to support bed In some hospital,
home or foreign, or the paying of doctors
bill for some poor family in your neighbor-
hood. Do not omit prayer for the medical
missionaries,