IN FARTHEST TIBET
HOW A LAMA BAN AWAY FROM A NEW TESTAMENT. LONDON, January. 18. Two -Salvation Army officers, .Ens-gn and Mrs Mortimer, have just arrived in London from tho extreme limits of civilistaion on the confines of Tibet. To a pressman tho’Ensign explained that their station is Ghini, in tho State of Bashahr, which is inaccessible from the Indian side for seven months of the year owing to snow. Some of the Tibetan villages they visit are 15,000 leet above sea level. The Salvationists are the only white people ever seen by the villagers, who at first were so hostile that they attempted to starve them out. One dav a herdsman was found terribly mauled by a bear, which had torn one half of his face completely away. Under careful treatment ho recovered, his cheek and mouth wero restored, and a new nose was grafted on. News of the cur/ quickly spread, and many natives subsequently applied for treatment. One day a lama to whom he gave a portion of the Now Testament to read, when ho came across the name of Jesus, dropped the book and bolted for fear some evil spirit should seize him.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9615, 22 March 1917, Page 6
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197IN FARTHEST TIBET New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9615, 22 March 1917, Page 6
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