Glimpses of Christian India with Ella Luce
Ella Luce [1860-1943] vividly recalls her long service in India with the Zenana Medical mission extending from 1888-1922. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of the book to scan. This title is in the public domain.
Ella Luce [1860-1943], Glimpses of Christian India. London & Edinburgh: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, [1933]. Hbk. pp.216. [Click to download complete book in PDF]
Contents
- Earliest Recollections
- School and Life in London
- Mission and Conversion
- Voyage to India, and the First Year There
- Beginning Work at Sultanpur
- Work at Sultanpur – and Marriages of My Sisters
- Building the First Orphanage, and Famine of 1897
- Accounts of Some Girls Saved in the Famine
- Missionary Friends and Expansion of the Work
- Building the Hospital, and Plague in Cawmpore
- A Difficult Girl and a Serious Illness
- Weddings and Consumption
- Building Large New Dormitories For 100 Children
Part Two: Tours in India After Retirement
- First Tour After Retirement
- Second Tour After Retirement
- Deputation Tours in England and Closing Work in Sultanpur
Chapter 1: Earliest Recollections
How or by whom I was informed I cannot say, but I know somehow that my father was sitting by a fire at twelve o’clock on the night of July seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty, when a nurse appeared and told him that another daughter had been born to him. This was a disappointment, as he had naturally hoped that his second offspring would be a son.
The old house looking more or less like a large farm house covered with many creepers, had a long narrow hall with drawing-room and dining-room on each side, a study with steps leading to the garden, six fairly large bedrooms, two dressing-rooms and an upper storey containing several rooms used by the servants… [Continue reading]