I really like this book. It is a number of stories from the streets of Calcutta, India. Set in the Seventies following the ministries and humanitarian work of Mark Buntain. I wanted to give a little review of the book but I have already borrowed out my copy and plan to keep it borrowed out. It is a very touching book and I hope it inspires others and myself to like service. It has a story of a crippled boy that crawls the streets around like a spider--ignored by the world. A story about a leper doomed to die a horrible death as one of the living dead. A prostitute who has to decide whether to join Christ or provide her family with a meager living. A ex-soldier who is totally rejected by his own family lays down to die only to wake up cleaned and washed and a new lease on life that leads him to become an accountant. A drug dealer who seeks out the ultimate high. The story of a Russian circus motor cycle dare devil who lives a life of squalor and becomes accussed of murder. Read the book and see how Christ reaches down into each of these lives and shows hope where other see despair. Of course life has choices that can bring disappointments.
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