{"id":1244,"date":"2017-07-05T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2017-07-05T07:06:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T07:06:52","slug":"christian-india-ella-luce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/christian-india-ella-luce\/","title":{"rendered":"Glimpses of Christian India with Ella Luce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-1246\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1246\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/glimpses-of-christian-india_luce.jpg\" alt=\"Ella Luce [1860-1943], Glimpses of Christian India\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog?longdesc=1246&amp;referrer=1244\" \/>Ella Luce [1860-1943] vividly recalls her long service in India with the Zenana Medical mission extending from 1888-1922. My thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/redcliffe.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redcliffe College<\/a> for providing a copy of the book to scan. This title is in the public domain.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/pdf\/e-books\/luce_ella\/glimpses-of-christian-india_luce.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Ella Luce [1860-1943], <em>Glimpses of Christian India<\/em>. London &amp; Edinburgh: Marshall, Morgan &amp; Scott, [1933]. Hbk. pp.216. [Click to download complete book in PDF]<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>Contents<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Earliest Recollections<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>School and Life in London<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mission and Conversion<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Voyage to India, and the First Year There<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Beginning Work at Sultanpur<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Work at Sultanpur &#8211; and Marriages of My Sisters<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Building the First Orphanage, and Famine of 1897<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Accounts of Some Girls Saved in the Famine<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Missionary Friends and Expansion of the Work<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Building the Hospital, and Plague in Cawmpore<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A Difficult Girl and a Serious Illness<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Weddings and Consumption<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Building Large New Dormitories For 100 Children<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Part Two: Tours in India After Retirement<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First Tour After Retirement<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Second Tour After Retirement<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Deputation Tours in England and Closing Work in Sultanpur<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Chapter 1: Earliest Recollections<\/h3>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230; <strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/pdf\/e-books\/luce_ella\/glimpses-of-christian-india_luce.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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