Things as They Are

Amy Wilson-Carmichael

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Amy Carmichael's first-hand account of missionary work among the women and children of Tamil Nadu in South India — the joys, the hard realities and the call to prayer that moved a generation of readers.

Chapters 33
  1. Front Matter
  2. About the Book
  3. Three Afternoons off the Track
  4. Humdrum
  5. Correspondences
  6. The Prey of the Terrible
  7. Missed Ends
  8. "The Dust of the Actual"
  9. Roots
  10. The Classes and the Masses
  11. The Creed Chasm
  12. Caste viewed as a Doer
  13. Petra
  14. Death by Disuse
  15. What Happened
  16. "Simply Murdered"
  17. Wanted, Volunteers
  18. If it is so very important.,.?
  19. The Call Intensified
  20. "Attracted by the Influence"
  21. The Elf
  22. Deified Devilry
  23. Behind the Door
  24. "Pan, Pan is Dead"
  25. "Married to the God"
  26. Skirting the Abyss
  27. From a Hindu Point of View
  28. Though ye know Him not
  29. How Long?
  30. What do we count them worth?
  31. Two Safe
  32. Three Objections
  33. "Show me Thy Glory!"
AuthorAmy Wilson-Carmichael
LanguageEnglish
First published1903
Era1900s
CategoriesMissions · Christian Biography
TopicsMissions · Prayer · Evangelism
Length264 pages · 32 chapters · ≈ 7 h 24 min read
FormatsWeb Book · PDF
SourcePDF from a scanned edition (calibre conversion).
Status Public Domain

Public Domain. Published 1903; author died 1951 — public domain.

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