Introduction
Introduction
Black pages in history—every nation has them. What of pious Victorian England when the age of consent was twelve and little girls on their way home from Sunday school were kidnapped, drugged, crated, and shipped to houses of ill fame in South America? What of Turkey, China, and Japan? What of America in the 1980s?
In order to examine the life of one woman who daily for fifty-five years laid down her own life to save abused children, it is necessary to see her work set against its dark background. She herself said so: “The significance of this work depends upon its background—the existence, I mean, of that evil of which the lotus pool may be taken as a symbol. The waters of that pool are not clean but mirey; its depths are very deep.”
It is necessary to learn certain dark facts that instead of corrupting have the opposite effect. Confronting evil in the power of God does not defile or corrupt a Christian. On the contrary, as Scripture says, evil is overcome by good.