Fritzuius, copyright 2005, Sam Wellman’s Biography Site, Photo from Evening Standard/Getty Images. 1988 Published in electronic form by Logos Research Systems, 1996. 1105Ĭhristian History: Russian Christianity. Alresford, Hampshire: John Hunt Publishers Ltd., 2000, p. The New Encyclopedia of Christian quotations. Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House, 1999, p. She remained there until she died on January 3, 1970. Gladys, as the most chaste of women was miserable over what she considered to be her ruined reputation.Īfter living in England for 10 years, in 1958, she moved to Taiwan and started another orphanage. Gladys was horrified when Hollywood portrayed her in “love scenes” with Colonel Linnan.
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Hollywood had produced a movie about her called “Inn of the Sixth Happiness.” Although it was heart-warming and well-produced, it was incredibly full of inaccuracies. In her later life, she had a constant thorn in her side. Denying her fleshly desires, she said good-bye to him and never looked back. She wanted to get married, but knew that she could not marry him and continue the work God had for her.
While she was recovering, the man she loved, Colonel Linnan came to visit her. At first, she wasn’t going to leave, stating that “Christians never retreat!” When the Japanese offered a reward for several important people, including Gladys, she decided to make that trip with the children to safety. Once she arrived, she collapsed into delirium from exhaustion, malnutrition, pneumonia and typhoid fever. In 1940, shortly after being severely beaten by Japanese soldiers, Gladys Aylward walked with 100 children from the ages of 5 to 15 over mountains and other rough terrain into Sian. Less, the little boy, was the second individual added to a quickly growing orphanage. Not long after, Nine-pence (for that was the girl’s name) brought in a little boy, and said she would eat less so they could feed him. She discovered that the beggar had kidnapped the girl to help bring in more money. Sometime between 19, Gladys noticed a beggar with a very sickly child. A card hung on her wall saying “God hath chosen the weak things – I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” She lived in a small room with just two planks for a bed, two stools, two cups and a basin. The Chinese were much more willing to listen to her because not only did she look like them, but she lived like them too. In 1936, Gladys became a Chinese citizen. She accepted, realizing this would give her a wonderful opportunity to spread God’s Word. They needed a woman whose feet were not bound to go about the country inspecting women’s feet to see that they were not bound. Soon after, a government official informed her that a law forbidding the binding of women’s feet had been passed. Lawson, Gladys built and ran an Inn, providing, food, beds, and Bible lessons to travelers. In China, she praised God for her different looks, because every person around her was also short and dark haired. After a harrowing journey through snow, bitter cold, and gunfire from the Russo-Chinese war, she reached Tiensin. Working as a parlor-maid for two years, she was only able to save up enough money for a train ticket to China, and left on Octowith one suitcase and 2 pounds, equivalent to about 4 US dollars. Although she was told that she would never be able to learn Chinese, or survive in China, Gladys was determined that God wanted her in China. She studied for three months in a missionary society college before she was turned down. Later in life, when she was twenty-eight, she read about China, and felt called to be a missionary there. As a child, she was disappointed in two things: one, that she had black hair, while her school-mates and light colored hair two, that she was short-only four feet ten inches. She was the daughter of a mailman and oldest of two sisters and a brother. Gladys Aylward was born in Edmonton, London on February 24, 1902.
On October 15, 1932, a poor, short, dark haired parlor-maid boarded a train in London with a one-way ticket to China.
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