On the face of the mountain wall, two thousand feet high, back of the leper settlement at Molokai, is a ledge that can be reached neither from above nor below, and on it stands a temple of their construction.
Judas then told his story; he was roasting in hell when the Lord remembered that once in Joppa this disciple had thrown his cloak over the shoulders of a leper who was agonized by a wind that blew sharp sand into his sores.
Kenneth Stuart, and Christian people, have made it possible to record, as in Christ's days, that the leper is cleansed and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Carey did not rest until he had brought about the establishment of a leper hospital in Calcutta, near what became the centre of the Church Missionary Society's work, and there benevolent physicians, like the late Dr.
With outstretched arms the leper mother was making a way through the crowd for a hooded man and, on the steps of the church, I caught a brief glimpse of Master Theodoros near a pale female face.
But my cousin, the leper mother, was still standing next to me, wrapped in her black cloak.
And his hitherto so solid feet could not support this poor leper longer in his mixture of misery and unspeakable good fortune.
And the place where the treasure was was also shown to him and the leper went there in his dream and followed a bright light leading him on.
In vain the grey-haired leper mother threw herself in Mechthild's way and tried to push her back with outstretched arms.
What I had borne alone in deference to my unhappy friend and the leper mother as long as I could keep it secret, had now to come out and there were no dams to throw up against it.
Konrad the leper made a promise to God that he would use anything he found in the service of the poor and sick, and behold: a great treasure really was excavated from the garden of the Hainzen of Pegnitz and Konrad kept to his vow.
The leper mother told me how the poor man had spoken to her softly out of the blue before the sick bay of St John's Church.
The shadow of the hooded leper never once left my side.
She was supporting old Stollhoferin, theleper mother and greeted me quietly.
We stood on the bridge at the New Gate and those who guarded it had already uncovered their heads before the leper mother.
The Blacksmith who could handle Fire without Hurt and Abu Al Hasan and Abu Ja'afar the Leper will suit our purpose admirably.
The leper is an outcast, so treated by his own race even more than by Europeans, but this does not prevent him from wandering at will through the crowded streets and bazars.
So long as subsistence can be gained by begging, many prefer change of scene to the more certain comforts of the Leper Home.
Such was the brand put upon the leper and his awful affliction, under the Mosaic law.
After a time arrangements were made to send her to the Leper Asylum at Mandalay, over two hundred miles away.
The orphanages are most successful, and the leper establishments--where those living dead are cared for by the nuns at the sacrifice of their own lives--cannot fail to excite universal admiration.
Kneeling down and beseeching Him, theleper said, If thou wilt, thou can make me clean.
And they were in Tiberius by the sea, and as they taught a leper came a-near and said, Lord, I believe, and if you will but speak the Word I will be clean.
Bar-Simon, who was once a leper and was cleansed by Jesus by the sacred Word, abode in Bethany.
The island of Molokai, then, on which the leper settlement has been located by the Government, is long, and shaped much like the leaf of the willow-tree.
The news had spread throughout the leper settlement.
During the early hours of the morning, which broke dark and inexpressibly sad for us, a few bodies were found washed ashore, among them those of two leper girls of Honolulu.
It had been feared that it would soon be sunk or dashed to pieces, and as quickly as possible a boat had been put off, in which were the leper girls that were being brought from Honolulu.
The two lepervillages are actually situated in the cup of an ancient crater.
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One day a miserable leper was brought in so covered with sores that he could not be placed with the other inmates.
Next morning the leperwas whole, the charity of Poppo had healed him.
It is commonly said that St. Finan the Leper was the founder of Innisfallen.
St. Finan the Leper is said to have been a disciple of St. Columba, and to have been placed by that saint over his own foundation at Swords; but at what time it is difficult to determine.
Is theleper enriched by the cure of his foul disease?
Leper asylums are maintained in Norway and at two or three places in the Baltic, San Remo, Cyprus, Constantinople, Alicante and Lisbon.
Leper asylums have been established at Robben Island near Cape Town, and in Tembuland.
The flesh of the leper became wrinkled with old age; Jairus' daughter fell again on sleep; the generation which had been benefited by the mighty works, passed away without handing on a legacy of health to succeeding time!
In Eastern countries the leperis compelled to cry, "Unclean, unclean," upon the approach of any one not so cursed.
The palsied hand moved, the blind saw, the leperwas made whole, the dead spake, despite the ridicule and scoffs of the spectators.
We often detect in the eye and in the manner the black leper spots of impurity long before the youth suspects they have ever been noticed.
The leper was driven from society; he could not dwell in the camp nor in the city.
But now let our almoner do what best he may, I doubt not many a leper sleeps cold, and many a poor man goes lean with hunger.
For in those days it was not lawful that a leper should abide in the companionship of men, and he was set apart lest his malady should bring others to a misery like his own.
He carried the basket of flowers and fruit to the Priory, and told what he had seen; and the Prior, marvelling greatly, came to the place and gave the poor leper brother a blessed burial.
With sudden shock the prison-clock Smote on the shivering air, And from all the gaol rose up a wail Of impotent despair, Like the sound the frightened marshes hear From some leper in his lair.
With sudden shock the prison-clock Smote on the shivering air, And from all the gaol rose up a wail Of impotent despair, Like the sound that frightened marshes hear From a leper in his lair.
It might be noted that Mangalore has acquired a world wide reputation for its leper hospital which was founded by Father Mueller, formerly of the New York province.
