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Sandra Wagner-Wright
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Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
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Twelve are Baptized
While Rama was away at the Christian camp meeting, twelve of her students decided to be baptized. Rama's example of simple faith pulled the girls. Rama didn't know if this was a triumph or a disaster. The school was funded as a secular school. Hindus allowed child widows to attend, but wouldn't accept students being baptized. And Rama was still engrossed in her own crisis of faith. This wasn't like praying for a farm. This was Rama's cherished school. But Rama had no time for sponsorship politics. A greater crisis loomed.
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Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
Though no one specifically mentioned the baptisms, word spread. Newspaper reports charged Rama had specifically converted her students and had been required to do so by her American backers. Sharada Sadan, according to Rama’s enemies, was a Christian mission in another guise. Families responded quickly. The student body fell from sixty-five to forty-eight within weeks. Rama hoped at least some of the girls would return but didn’t dwell on it. God was pulling Rama in a different direction.
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