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Title: "God first" : or, Hester Needham's work in Sumatra : her letters and diaries
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Needham, Hester
Subjects: Needham, Hester Missions
Publisher: (London) : The Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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neously in our home lessons, and it onlywanted a little regulating. So we had an object lessonon the love that was brought into the world! At theclose Mr. Wiebe gave an address, and before leaving allthe children present received a handful of good things toeat. There were nineteen children, including the visitors,and seventeen grown-ups, one of the visitors being a hadji. On Christmas morning we had service like Sunday,and I have begun now to go too, for the sake of fourMohammedan men whom I have engaged permanently tocarry my bed, as this gives them a good opportunity ofattending without being laughed at. Then they returnhere, and drink cofiee, and have a talk. Dec. ij8.—The visiting of the people here is interest-ing, though slow compared to Silindung. There it wasconsidered the correct thing for the village to assemble inthe house which we visited; here each house has to betaken separately, although even here people do often dropin. Once as many as nine men came in and were quiet

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LIFE IN LITTLE MANDAILING 235 listeners, but I have myself only been to about ten housesas yet, many things coming in to hinder. At no househave we been refused an entrance, though, in the gossipof the market, Bartimeus has heard people tell each otherthat they will do so. The native Mohammedan magistrate, who holds the chiefposition in Sipongi, with his wife, have treated us w^ithmost marked respect. Once Bartimeus said, after receivinga very special salaam from this man, Why do you, sir,treat me with such unexpected respect 1 Because I knowyou are a servant of God. This testimony gave me muchjoy, especially as both these people are natives of Mandail-ing. So you see some people are accessible, and some arenot, as everywhere else. Jan. 15, 1896.—This week we had a grand time. Thereis a crippled young man, extremely poor, who lives fivemiles off in a wretched little house, with six sisters, allorphans, only cared for by their widowed grandmother;so by dint of a so-called self-denial

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