THE RAMABAI MISSION
When the news of the death of Pandita Ramabai reached her many friends in New Zealand, they resolved that a memorial should he established, to take the form of a fund of £5.000 to be expended in the printing of Ramabai’s translation of the New Testament into Marathi, and the free distribution of 100,000 copies among the 19,000,000 of Marathispeaking people in India. There are something like 25,000,000 child-widows in India, many thousands of them under the age of ten, all doomed to neglect and life-long wretchedness. It was for -the purpose of rescuing these that the Pandita Ramabai established her mission at Mukti,. During the frequent famine periods Ramabai sent out her workers and gathered in many children abandoned to death. Last year 200 of these were saved. It is to help such work as this, tl\at a sale of Indian and Eastern goods is be- f big held Thursday 7th and Friday Bth Scptenbcr at the’ Methodist School Ilail, London Street.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15033, 2 September 1922, Page 4
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