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LOTUS BUDS The Great Rock. (Page 338.) The Great Rock. (Page 338.)LOTUS BUDS BYAMY WILSON-CARMICHAEL Keswick Missionary C.E.Z.M.S. AUTHOR OF "THINGS AS THEY ARE"; "OVERWEIGHTS OF JOY"; "THE BEGINNING OF A STORY," ETC. WITH FIFTY HALF-TONE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOS SPECIALLY TAKEN FOR THIS WORK MORGAN AND SCOTT LD. 12 PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS LONDON MCMXII Copyright, Morgan & Scott Ld., 1909 FIRST EDITION, Quarto (Fifty Photogravure Illustrations) 2,000 Nov., 1909 EDITION DE LUXE (Fifty Photogravures on Japon Vellum) 250 Nov., 1909 OCTAVO EDITION (Fifty ...
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Lotus Buds, by Amy
Carmichael
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almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
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Title: Lotus Buds
Author: Amy Carmichael
Release Date: July 16, 2009 [eBook #29427]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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LOTUS BUDS
The Great Rock. (Page 338.) The Great Rock. (Page
338.)LOTUS BUDS
BYAMY WILSON-CARMICHAEL
Keswick Missionary C.E.Z.M.S.
AUTHOR OF
"THINGS AS THEY ARE"; "OVERWEIGHTS OF JOY";
"THE BEGINNING OF A STORY," ETC.
WITH FIFTY HALF-TONE ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PHOTOS SPECIALLY TAKEN FOR THIS WORK
MORGAN AND SCOTT LD.
12 PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS
LONDON MCMXII
Copyright, Morgan & Scott Ld., 1909
FIRST EDITION, Quarto (Fifty Photogravure Illustrations) 2,000 Nov., 1909
EDITION DE LUXE (Fifty Photogravures on Japon Vellum) 250 Nov., 1909
OCTAVO EDITION (Fifty Half-tone Engravings) 5,250 July, 1912TO THOSE WHO CARE
Dohnavur, Tinnevelly District,
South India
Christmas, 1909.
Each for himself, we live our lives apart,
Heirs of an age that turns us all to stone;
Yet ever Nature, thrust from out the heart,
Comes back to claim her own.
Still we have something left of that fair seed
God gave for birthright; still the sound of tears
Hurts us, and children in their helpless need
Still call to listening ears.
Owen Seaman.
From "In a Good Cause."FOREWORD
TO THEPRESENT EDITION
HEN first "Things as they are" trod the untrodden way, it walked as a small child walks when for the first time itW ventures forth upon young, uncertain feet. It has to walk; it does not know why: it only knows there is no choice
about it. But there is an eager looking for an outstretched hand, and an instant gratefulness always, for even a finger.
A whole hand given without reserve is something never forgotten.
It was only a child after all, and it had not anticipated having to find its way alone among strangers. It had thought of
nothing further than a very short walk among familiar faces. If it had understood beforehand how far it would have to
walk, I doubt if it would have had the courage to start; for it was not naturally brave. But once on its way it could not turn
back; and thanks to those kindly outstretched hands, it grew a little less afraid, and it went on.
Then another small wayfarer followed. It also was very easily discouraged; an unfriendly push would have knocked
it over at once. But nobody seemed to want to push so unpretentious a thing, so it gained courage and went on.
And now a more grown-up looking traveller (though indeed its looks belie it) has started on its way; more diffident, if
the truth must be told, than even its predecessors. For it thought within itself—Perhaps there will be no welcoming
hands held out this time; hands may grow tired of such kind offices. But it has not been so. And now the sense of
gratefulness cannot longer be repressed.
All of which means that I want to thank sincerely those kings of the Book World—Reviewers—and those dwellers in
that world who are my Readers, for their insight and the sympathy to which I owe so much.
Once I read of a soldier who wrote a letter home from the midst of a battle, on a crumpled piece of paper laid upon a
cannon ball. His home people he knew would overlook the appearance of the paper and the lack of various things
expected in a letter written in a quiet room upon a study table. And he knew he could trust them not to bring too fine a
criticism to bear upon the unstudied words hot from the battle's heart.
I have thought sometimes that these books were not unlike that soldier's letter; and those who read them seem to
me very like his home people, for they have been so generous in the kindness of their welcome.
Amy Wilson-Carmichael.
Dohnavur,
Tinnevelly District
S. India.
Feb. 19, 1912.THE WRITER TO THE READER
HE photographs (except two) were taken by Mr. Penn, of Ootacamund, whose work is known to all who care toT possess good photographs of the South Indian hills. The babies were a new experience to him, and something of a
trial, I fear, after the mountains, which can be trusted to sit still.
The book has been written for lovers of children. Those who find such young life tiresome will find the story dull, and the
kindest thing it can ask of them is not to read it at all.CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. LOTUS BUDS 1
II. OPPOSITES 5
III. THE SCAMP 15
IV. THE PHOTOGRAPHS 23
V. TARA AND EVU 31
VI. PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, RULERS 41
VII. HOW THE CHILDREN COME 51
VIII. OTHERS 61
IX. OLD DÉVAI 67
X. FAILURES? 75
XI. GOD HEARD: GOD ANSWERED 85
XII. TO WHAT PURPOSE? 95
XIII. A STORY OF COMFORT 103
XIV. PICKLES AND PUCK 113
XV. THE HOWLER 121
XVI. THE NEYOOR NURSERY 129
XVII. IN THE COMPOUND AND NEAR IT 141
XVIII. FROM THE TEMPLE OF THE ROCK 153
XIX. YOSÉPU 159
XX. THE MENAGERIE 169
XXI. MORE ANIMALS 183
XXII. THE PARROT HOUSE 191
XXIII. THE BEAR GARDEN 201
XXIV. THE ACCALS 215
XXV. THE LITTLE ACCALS 227
XXVI. THE GLORY OF THE USUAL 235
XXVII. THE SECRET TRAFFIC 245
XXVIII. BLUE BOOK EVIDENCE 253
XXIX. "VERY COMMON IN THOSE PARTS" 261
XXX. ON THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSORS THERE WAS POWER 269
XXXI. AND THERE WAS NONE TO SAVE 279
XXXII. THE POWER BEHIND THE WORK 291
XXXIII. IF THIS WERE ALL 301
XXXIV. "TO CONTINUE THE SUCCESSION" 309
XXXV. WHAT IF SHE MISSES HER CHANCE? 321
XXXVI. "THY SWEET ORIGINAL JOY" 331