Everlasting Pearl: One of China's Women
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Chapters (45)
- EVERLASTING PEARL
- ONE OF CHINA'S WOMEN
- ANNA MAGDALENA JOHANNSEN
- FOR SIXTEEN YEARS A MISSIONARY IN CHINA
- WITH PREFACE BY WALTER B. SLOAN
- SECOND IMPRESSION
- CHINA INLAND MISSION LONDON, PHILADELPHIA, TORONTO, MELBOURNE AND SHANGHAI MORGAN & SCOTT, LTD. PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, LONDON, E.C. MCMXVIII
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- EVERLASTING PEARL . . . . . . Frontispiece A PRECIOUS BUNDLE PLAITING SILK BRAID A SOURCE OF GREAT DELIGHT WRITING THE ENGAGEMENT DOCUMENT ADORNED AS A BRIDE THE OUT-STATION OF KUCHENG ANOTHER JEWEL FOR CHRIST
- EVERLASTING PEARL
- CHAPTER I BIRTH AND INFANCY
- [Illustration: A precious bundle.]
- CHAPTER II FOOTBINDING
- CHAPTER III CHILDHOOD DAYS
- [Illustration: Plaiting silk braid.]
- [Illustration: A source of great delight.]
- "Is there too great a burden on the shoulders of the Chinese Christians? Surely not. A little girl once was carrying a little boy on her back. Some one said, 'I see you have a big burden, haven't you?' 'No,' replied the little girl, 'that is not a burden; that is my brother.'"—Rev. Cheng Ching Yi, Edinburgh Missionary Conference.]
- CHAPTER IV ENGAGEMENT
- [Illustration: Writing the engagement document. As binding as a marriage certificate.]
- CHAPTER V MARRIAGE—PART I
- CHAPTER VI. MARRIAGE—PART II
- [Illustration: Adorned as a bride. A proud day in the young girl's life.]
- CHAPTER VII DARK DAYS
- CHAPTER VIII MISERABLE COMFORTERS
- CHAPTER IX BROKEN CISTERNS
- CHAPTER X WAYS NOT KNOWN
- CHAPTER XI THE MESSENGERS OF PEACE
- [Illustration: The out-station at Kucheng. The place where Everlasting Pearl was converted.]
- CHAPTER XII THE BEGINNING OF CONFLICT
- CHAPTER XIII THE BATTLE GROWS FIERCER
- CHAPTER XIV LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS
- CHAPTER XV SAVED TO SERVE
- CHAPTER XVI PERSECUTION AND TRIAL
- CHAPTER XVII LABOUR AND FRUIT
- CHAPTER XVIII FRUIT MORE ABUNDANT
- CHAPTER XIX PREPARATION FOR FURTHER SERVICE
- CHAPTER XX DAYS OF SHADOW
- CHAPTER XXI THE SHADOW DEEPENS
- CHAPTER XXII ENTERING THE VALLEY
- CHAPTER XXIII ANOTHER JEWEL WON FOR CHRIST
- [Illustration: Another jewel for Christ.]
- "You are early at your worship, old grandfather. You are very earnest about it."
- CHAPTER XXIV CONCLUSION
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