The Irish missionary Amy Carmichael settled at Dohnavur in the Tamil south and built a family of refuge for children rescued from temple servitude, staying in India for over fifty years without a single furlough. Her early book Things as They Are told the hard truth of that work to readers back home.
Her profile in Missions in India →Amy Carmichael, Things as They Are (1903) — public domain; Elisabeth Elliot's A Chance to Die is copyrighted and cited only.
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