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Few missionaries have experienced the adventure, mystery and danger that Miss Aylward did in her work for the Lord in China. Rescuing children from battle zones during a time when China was wor-torn was a secondary goal to her, compared to winning them to Christ. A woman of great faith who worked against enormous odds to manifest the power of God unto salvation. Written for children, 8 to 12.
Gladys Aylward was born February 24, 1902 in the outskirts of London, England and was raised in the Anglican church. She was never married, and in 1930 she took a train across Russia to China to help the aging missionary Agnes Lawson found an inn. In 1932, the province of Mandarin appointed her "foot -inspector" - a job she used to evangelize villagers all over his province.
Her conduct during a prison riot in 1933 cemented her reputation as a godly woman of good judgment. She became a Chinese citizen in 1936. During the 2nd World War, she was wounded by Japanese soldiers, only months before she shepherded 100 orphans across a dangerous mountain range to safety. Nearly dead, she recovered by God's grace to evangelize until the Communists evicted her from China in the late 1940's. The Small Woman won her fame in 1957, increased by the inaccurate but popular movie version of her life, "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness." She founded an orphanage in 1958 in Taiwan, where she died, January 3, 1970.
