Things As They Are - Mission Work in Southern India, by Amy Carmichael, was a controversial book in its time.
Most missionaries wrote flowery accounts of their experience with mission service, skipping over the difficult times.
Amy Carmichael stunned the Evangelical community in England by writing was South India was really like.
Amy wrote what others left in between the pages.
She served in India for fifty-six years without furlough and authored many books about the missionary work.
About the Author Amy Carmichael (1867- 1951) was a Protestant Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur.
She was born in the small village of Millisle in Northern Ireland to devout Presbyterians, David and Catherine Carmichael and was the oldest of seven children.
After her father's death, she was adopted and tutored by Robert Wilson, cofounder of the Keswick Convention.
In many ways she was an unlikely candidate for missionary work.
She suffered neuralgia, a disease of the nerves that made her whole body weak and achy and often put her in bed for weeks on end.
It was at the Keswick Convention of 1887 that she heard Hudson Taylor speak about missionary life.
Soon afterward, she became convinced of her calling to the same labour.
Initially Amy travelled to Japan for fifteen months, but she later found her lifelong vocation in India.
She was commissioned by the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society.
Much of her work was with young ladies, some of whom were saved from forced prostitution.
The organization she founded was known as the Dohnavur Fellowship.
Dohnavur is situated in Tamil Nadu, just thirty miles from the southern tip of India.
Under her loving guidance, the fellowship would become a place of sanctuary for more than one thousand children who would otherwise have faced a bleak future.
In an effort to respect Indian culture, members of the organization wore Indian dress and the children were given Indian names.
She herself dress.
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