AMERICAN CHRISTIAN #27
INDIA – The Mukti Revival & Pandita Ramabai
Pandita Ramabai, a Sanskrit scholar from Calcutta, travels to England to teach and is converted to Christianity. She then sets her sight on American to further her studies.
Ramabai taught Sanskrit in England beginning in 1883. While in England she converted to Christianity and was baptized in the latter part of 1883 and subsequently traveled to the United States to study. In 1889 she returned to India and began her social reform work, initially focusing on the education of girls and widows. By 1905 Ramabai had the responsibility of over 2,000 people who were living at the Mukti Mission. That ministry is still in existence today.
At 3:30 a.m. on June 29, 1905, Minnie Abrams, the American missionary working at Mukti, was awakened by a dorm supervisor with the news that one of the senior girls had suddenly awakened “with the fire coming down on her.” The supervisor related how she had seen the fire, ran across the room for a pail of water, and was about to pour it on the girl when she discovered she was not on fire—it was a manifestation of the Holy Spirit, like what is found in Acts 2:3.
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