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Rebekkah Simeon Walker Reformer Educationist and Philanthropist

1925

While druding along in the awful anxiety to find ways and means out of the embarrassed circumstances providentially there appeared on the scene a staunch friend of the late Benjamin in the person of Samuel Elijah Varulkar Gubbay—a champion of every thing that was good and gentleman of high repute and unblemished character to prove the validity of the proverb "a friend in need is a friend ind [...] This novel idea of imparting knowledge to her ignorant sisters in the form of dispensary lectures came to her mind from the observation of a practice among the Christian missionaries' free dispensaries where the patients were allowed to gather in a sufficiently large nmmber for a preacher to read certain texts from the Bible and deliver a sermon as if to bless the skill of the physician and the e [...] To make sure that the woman was doing her work correctly she called next day and when she was convinced of her efficiency she turned to the patient and told her that the cooly woman would relieve her and act as her doctor ; requesting her to return the instrument29 as soon as she was cured. [...] account of a public meeting held in Bombay in which one of the speakers mentioned her as a mother of the poor another called her a benefactor of humanity and a third a guardian angel of the distressed. [...] On entering the dark and insanitary tenament she was convinced of the poverty of the patient and gently asked her the nature of her ailment.
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Pages
170
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147229
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-viii I. A. Issac view
Preface
1-i I. A. Issac view
Childhood
5-8 I. A. Issac view
Her Intended Husband
9-11 I. A. Issac view
Marriage
12-15 I. A. Issac view
New Life
16-19 I. A. Issac view
Foreign Lady Doctor
20-24 I. A. Issac view
Professional Celebrity
25-29 I. A. Issac view
Large Heartedness & Benevolence
30-39 I. A. Issac view
Kindness to Servants
40-42 I. A. Issac view
Help to Her Husband
43-47 I. A. Issac view
Society for Promoting Morals
48-50 I. A. Issac view
Rebekah’s Lecture Hall or Temple of Hygiene
50-76 I. A. Issac view
Confiagration of the Hall
77-i I. A. Issac view
Children and Their Education
79-81 I. A. Issac view
Rebekah’s Seven Lettter
82-vi I. A. Issac view
Simeon’s Services to Rebekah
103-105 I. A. Issac view
The Death
106-109 I. A. Issac view
Appendices
110-131 I. A. Issac view
Summary
132-146 I. A. Issac view

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