The Small Woman: Gladys Aylward |
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Alan Burgess
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Pages: 272 (Paperback)
ISBN: 033010196X
Pub: Pan Books
Pub date: 1969-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 254888
Reader Reviews:
The Small Woman (0/1 people found this helpful)
This is a very challenging book.
Firstly it shows us God's magnificent hand in the life of an ordinary woman, who was used to do extraodrinary things in the name of the Master.
Secondly, it challenges us to attempt great things for God in our everyday lives.
Gladys Aylward (27/27 people found this helpful)
This book tells the true story of a small but determined woman, who, feeling that she was called by God to serve Him in China, took herself there, through dangerous territory during a war, and accomplished great things in His name.
She came from a very ordinary background and had little education or training. The big missionary organisations of the day would not support her and yet she knew that she must go. The journey there is enough to fill a book. Once in China she ran a hostel, worked in a prison, became an official foot-inspector at a time when the practice of binding small girls' feet to prevent their growth was being outlawed, and adopted a great many orphans. She became a Chinese citizen and was there at that difficult time in the 1930s when the Japanese, the communists and the nationalists were all contending for power. In this situation she led 100 children to safety over high mountains.
Her story is inspirational. She really was a small woman, of whom small things were expected ( she was formerly a parlour-maid in London). Yet against all the odds and against all expectations Gladys Aylward went forward bravely, a solitary British Woman in a strange land, to do that to which she was called. She returned to Taiwan after the war and lived out the rest of her days there, founding and running an orphanage. She is an example of a selfless life given for others .
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