This little woman, who in the world’s eyes who had very little to offer, was a great tool in The Lord’s Hands. The people who came to know her gave her had given her a Chinese name, Ai-weh-deh, meaning “virtuous woman” which then became her official national name. After just four years, she applied for Chinese citizenship and was accepted. ![]() ![]() The language, culture, food, customs and dress was a complete contrast to England, and though it took some getting used to, she fully embraced China as her own. Gladys, seeing the hand of God, believed she was that woman and after making contact, in 1932 she left her home and all that she knew to join Jeannie Lawson in the little town of Yangcheng, set between high mountains. Sadly the husband had recently passed away and the aged widow was trusting God to send a young single woman out to join her in a new work for The Lord. According to God’s perfect timing, one day at church Gladys was told of a Scottish missionary couple who were in China. What should have taken three years to pay for was hers, by God’s grace, within a year. This couple were a great encouragement to the disheartened Gladys as they shared with her wonderful stories of God’s interventions and dealings on their past mission trips, and she grew in faith that with God nothing is impossibleĬhina was still burning in her heart, and by faith she worked every hour she could until she’d paid the £47 fare for a third class, one-way ticket to China on the Trans-Siberian railway. But after three months of struggling with the Chinese language studies and academic assignments, her enrolment was ended and she took work as a house keeper for a retired missionary couple in Bristol. ![]() After being challenged, she saw that she was the one to go, and applied to the China Inland Mission where she was taken in to be trained. In her early twenties, her self-indulgent life changed when she was saved one night in a church meeting she’d found herself in, and her interest was shifted from herself to the souls of others.Īfter hearing of the great need in China, the burden became hers to find someone to go there with the glorious Gospel that brings people out of darkness into light, but she found no one. Gladys was born into a working-class family in London, and on leaving school entered into working life as a parlour maid and lived very much for her own pleasure. This article is from Issue 4, Called to Trust
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