The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1928, Page 62

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

great love and goodness. Surely I will remember
this Yesu Swami about whom you have told me,
because I know you bow to Him only. Yes, He
must be a very great Swami to have such a follower
as you, and hereafter I shall pray to Him, and not
to Krishna and Hanuman, as I used to, for I know
that He must be the true God.”

One of the staunchest friends of Dr. Kugler is
an Indian rajah, M. Bhuyanga Rao Bahadur of
Ellore. Dr. Kugler had restored his beloved wife,
the rani (queen) Chinnamma Rao, to health. Later
she had saved the life of his son and heir. When he
asked what he might do to show his gratitude,
Dr. Kugler suggested that he build a rest-house in
which Hindu relatives could stay while attending
patients who were in the hospital. This rajah got
two other Indians to give the land, and he built the
rest-house. But that was not all. He had wanted
to know the secret of her power, and she had told
him that it was in Jesus Christ and had given him
a copy of the New Testament. He eagerly read the
book and saw in it the medicine that his land
needed even more than physical healing. So he
translated it into Telugu poetry, which Brahmans
and all educated Telugus would delight to read.
When the new rest-house was dedicated, he gave
away five hundred copies of his translation to the
guests. His youngest child is named Annamma in
honor of the doctor. On his very letter-head this
Brahman rajah has printed a picture of the Christ,
whom he now regards as the hope of India and
whom, as he says in the preface to his translation,
he first saw reflected in the pure and beautiful life
of this American doctor. :

The British Government has twice recognized
the services of Dr. Kugler to India by giving her
“honors.” But it is the love of the people that is
her priceless decoration. Mrs. McCauley says: “We
make bold to say that no white person in the whole
Telugu country, among a population of far more
than twenty million people, is so widely known and
revered as Dr. Kugler. She is honored by govern-
ment officials, both English and Indian, by the
educated Brahman lawyer, by the prosperous
merchant, by the thrifty farmer, by the poor out-
caste Christian — by all classes. All seek to do her
honor. All seek her presence and help in times of
trouble and her approbation and praise in times of
success and prosperity.”

In her office she has hanging this motto: “Our-
selves your servants for Jesus’ sake,” and most
wonderfully does she carry out its ideal in her daily

life of service to women and children of India.

Dr. Kugler’s hospital is one of the great chain
of missionary hospitals and dispensaries which you
can now find over India. There are five hundred
of them in all. Some are as crude and primitive as
that with which Dr. Kugler began. Others are great
plants. Training-schools are preparing Christian
nurses. Several medical schools have arisen to train
Indian men and women to go out as Christian
doctors, to bring healing to the millions of Indians
who now suffer without help or hope.

,From India on the March.

Eprror’s Nore.— Dr. Anna §. Kugler, though seventy-

two years of age, has recently returned to the hospital
in Guntur, India, which she founded forty-four years ago.

The Lesson from the Hebrew Grammar.

A man of high character, but ordinary educa-
tion was addressing a roomful of schoolchildren.
“All of you,” he said, “know the verb which says,
‘I am, thou art, he is’; and all of you know that
verbs in English, French, German, Italian, and
Latin run in that way: ‘I love, thou lovest, he
loves; or, I walk, thou walkest, he walks.’ But do
you know that that is a very bad way for a verb
to run? Do you know that the old Hebrew people
arranged their verbs the other way round: ‘He is,
thou art, I am’?”

Then he added: “That is the way to look at life.
Say to yourself, looking up to God, ‘He is’; then
look at your neighbor and say, ‘You are”; last of
all think of yourself and say, ‘I am.’ First God,
then your neighbor, then yourself. That is the way
to think and to live.”

One who heard this story was so struck by the
thought that he could not rest until he found a
Hebrew scholar able to tell him whether it really
was true that Hebrew verbs are conjugated in this
way. He sought out a scholar and put his question.
“Yes,” said the scholar, “the Hebrew verb is con-
Jugated as you say. Why do you ask?” So the
other told him what the man had said to the school-
children.

“Well, well!” exclaimed the scholar with radiant
face. “I have been studying Hebrew forty years,
and never once has it occurred to me that Hebrew
verbs have that wonderful and beautiful signifi-
cance |?”

He sat for some moments, saying: “He is, thou
art, I am. How beautiful! Yes, to be sure: He
is, you are, am. Wonderful, wonderful!”

Youth's Companion.