"Only I, the weakest of all, am still here. ... I am not anxious about anything; my ticket is in the hands of my Savior in heaven, and He will let me know when I reach my station. Meanwhile, since the Lord has let me live so long, He must have His purpose. ... Though I am old, ill and weak, with ever-increasing limitations, I gladly answer Him: I must go forward!"
— Christiana Tsai
Source: Christiana Tsai, Jewels from the Queen of the Dark Chamber, ch. 25 (English rendered from the Chinese translation by Yuan Houdai)
Life, Value, Health, Journey, Love, Glory
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"Mary Stone (Shi Meiyu, 1873–1954) was born into a pastor's family in Jiujiang. In 1896 she and her classmate Ida Kahn (Kang Cheng) graduated from the University of Michigan medical school and returned at once to practise in Jiujiang, treating more than 2,300 patients in their first ten months. From 1920 she and Jennie V. Hughes founded the Bethel Church and Bethel Hospital in Shanghai, adding primary and secondary schools, a seminary, an orphanage and a nursing school, and the two women took thirty-six poor children into their own home. The nurses and doctors she trained cared for bodies and also spread the gospel; as a preacher in the Chinese church she became even better known than as a physician."
— Yading Li, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Source: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (BDCC), "Shi Meiyu"
Time, Christ, the cross, glory, joy, life, kingdom, eternity
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"Zhao Maijia (born Zhao Chongyi, 1919–2007) set out west alone in the spring of 1948 and, by way of Dunhuang and Hami, reached Shule, becoming the first Han Chinese missionary to preach the gospel in southern Xinjiang; the following year he founded a church there. In 1953 he married the woman evangelist He Enzheng, and the two served together in southern Xinjiang. During the Cultural Revolution he was brutally denounced in Yarkand (Shache), while He Enzheng took their two sons out of Xinjiang for two years. He served in Xinjiang for nearly sixty years and died on March 7, 2007."
— Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (BDCC)
Source: "Zhao Maijia," Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (bdcconline.net)
Mission, Grace, Prayer, Suffering, Glory
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"The long fight for Tibet has continued for many decades and will be carried on and on until at last it is His. … Let no young man think that it was a mistake that he should bury his particularly fine abilities in mission work in Asia; for it requires in the service of the Kingdom of God just as high an order of intelligence, just as great concentration, just as fine tact, and just as much "punch" as are required to run any great business concern. Come on, young men, and let's help to make the last nation on earth a part of the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."
— Albert L. Shelton
Source: Pioneering in Tibet (1921), ch. XXXV "Come On!", p. 214
Tibetan, Tibet, Christ, soldier, service, land, people, life
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"At the time I was immensely chagrined that I could not get a proper teacher, but now, after the lapse of only a few months, I can see good reason for thanking God for leading me by that way. This should teach me to trust God more than I do when things seem to thwart my purpose. ... Here again I have to praise God for not giving me my own way. "Thy way, not mine, O Lord; However dark it be.""
— James Gilmour
Source: James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters, and Reports
Walking with God, Joy, Outcomes, Guidance, The Way
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"My darling, do you know, for these ten years past there has not been even a cloud between my soul and my Savior? How could I be sad to go to Him? I am only sad to leave you alone at this time..."
— Maria Jane Dyer Taylor
Source: Record of Maria's conversation with Hudson Taylor before her death, July 23, 1870
Soul, Savior, Sadness
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