Gladys Aylward: The Small Woman With A Great God (2010) | Full Movie | Carol Puves

[Music] she was quite unassuming and what some people would call ordinary the woman of small stature and piercing dark eyes at first glance she seemed like almost anyone else you would have seen in a busy London Street just one more in the crowd but had you the opportunity to speak with her and broach the subject of God's work and outstanding transformation would take place for it was then that this small woman would show herself to be a giant of conviction they all gave the same picture people who'd met him those who'd hurt her in public meetings said she was very small she was barely 5 foot and she often behind the pulpit she had to stand on a box so she could be seen but it was her eyes that impressed people because she just had penetrating eyes and her charisma she could talk about her subject talk about the Lord for hours on end and people just wouldn't realize nobody be looking at their watches when she was talking she went on for two two and a half hours and she just held everybody spellbound but just what was it that made people flock to her meetings it was the story of an ordinary woman one that had many odds against her who experienced the extraordinary simply by saying yes to God in her own words I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done for China I don't know who it was it must have been a man a well-educated man I don't know what happened perhaps he died perhaps he wasn't willing and God looked down and saw Gladys Aylward and God said well she's willing Gladys Aylward but being willing took a while she was born of a working-class family in Edmonton London in 1902 working as a parlor maid at the age of 14 Gladys gave little thought to anything else but work and then having fun and she loved to go dancing she went with her cousin Queenie to the dances and her theater and one night the crowd of them were going to a dance and she was walking along this very busy street and because she was only five foot tall she got separated from her friends and she was suddenly found herself being pushed with other people into a church and there she was she had to sit the back of this church service oh it's a church meeting and you didn't want to be there but she was too shy to walk out so she had to sit and stay there an array that night taking that church into the church nine nine man that Jesus pray some of the Living God had done it it shipped me it moves me and it was going to alter my whole life and I said God if you're real oh please to yourself to me and if you prove yourself to me tonight I promise I will do anything you are I had no idea what he was going well and God spoke to her then and by the time she went out she was given her life to the Lord and somebody on the way out said to her miss Elwood I think God has a job for you to do and that just stuck in her mind not long after Gladys read a periodical that showed photographs of China the article went on to point out that millions there had never heard the gospel Gladys was shocked to the core so that me yeah and two men as we can I went out I called on somebody either a relation or a friend or somebody I knew and they took on people who I didn't know that it means I saw in the paper with this one right here that I could persuade them that they did have a person who should be going to China for us as they were all very care and educated and made good positions they were doctors they were nurses oh they were wonderful unto me they would check the very people who should be getting and I'm heavy sorry not one of them even took me in it they also had to be sunny in my head and also be touched to their questions a day came out and very disappointed her last try for a missionary recruitment was her own brother Gladys cornered him in the family kitchen and put the question to him promising to support him if he went as a missionary to China after getting over his initial shock he ridiculed her religious overzealousness and teenager then from the kitchen very respect get already a gun app from the dog when he turned back and then boy like put his head round the door and this is what I said if you really believe Sam be able to be going I don't go yourself penguins at all hey you got understood I don't know how long and I think I'm inside me that better go down inside of many of us know this challenge if it moves isn't with me or resolves all your game you know it couldn't be me eventually I just need God to family the first dear Lord Jesus if you will open the way and sure they have I will go myself the chicken I will never again ask anyone to do something that I believe you are asking me the person glad a failure to do it was in 1930 that she actually applied to the C I am the China Inland Mission and she was allowed to go to their College for one year the China Inland Mission was founded by Hudson Taylor on June 25th 1865 this international interdenominational mission was instituted on the principles of faith and prayer and recruited its missionaries from the working class at the time of Hudson Taylor's death the mission had grown to 205 mission stations with over 800 missionaries and 125,000 Chinese Christians it was to this mission school that Gladys Aylward applied and while she was there she had mixed fortunes she was very good at punctuality and being neat and tidy and the various things she was required to do but her scholastic studies she was really bad at she couldn't learn Chinese at all she couldn't do the various studies and theology she needed to do I have seen the reports that the college sent out saying the good things about Gladys you know very nice young lady but no way could she cope with the academic work and it was recommended that to continue would be wasting the money of the college and also wasting her life because she would not be able to be a missionary in China I'm very sorry miss a word but the missionary board finds you unqualified for any type of mission reserves she came out and cried as one would yes she was a very unhappy lady and they put her in touch with two ladies who'd be missionaries in China thinking that this would give her what she felt she should be doing but she wasn't happy because she felt that God wanted her to be in China along with her new missionary friends Gladys gave herself wholeheartedly to the work of helping young women in the rough area in which she was living the work was difficult and eventually got the best of her falling quite ill she traveled to her parents home to convalesce and there she prayed for guidance Gladys was certain there was more for her to do in God's work noting discouragement her mother invited Gladys to a church meeting and while she sat in a Pew Gladys overheard two women speaking softly about a 74 year old missionary who after the death of her husband was faithfully working among the Chinese all alone Jenny Lawson was her name and evidently she was praying for help specifically for a young person to assist in her Labor's Gladys just felt that this is what God was asking her to do you know she was the younger missionary who was to going work with Jenny Lawson so she had no doubt about him so she decided that if she couldn't go under the auspices of some organization to China she would go on her own but that meant that she had to save up the money to get there she went into the travel agents in the hay market and she said how much does it costs to go to China and they said well 90 pounds if you go by MC because that was the most comfortable way of going or if you go by train across Europe and across Asia it costs you 45 pounds and so she said right well I'll pay by installments so much every week every months until I've paid off the fare and in the travel agents they said but it's not safe for you to go there is a civil war out there there's a war an unofficial war between Russia and China it's not safe for you to go and then he issued the immortal words we do like our passengers to arrive alive she was absolutely convinced that God wanted her in China and that then became the whole purpose of her life she went back into service mainly because she could earn more money doing that although she didn't want to it was difficult for Gladys to return to work as a maid but it was different now she had a purpose and goal China as she moved into a tiny servants room in her new place of service Gladys placed her Bible and the little change she had left on the old dresser and prayed Lord here is my Bible here is all the money I have and Lord Here I am she worked all the hours that were she washed floors she did washing up for hotels she did waitressing she economized in all the ways she could she didn't go to the theater or the dancing anymore for one thing she didn't want to once she became a Christian these weren't things weren't so important to her she also saved money with her clothes and there's one lovely story she had a pair of leather shoes which were expensive very comfortable in that and she went into wars in Oxford Street in London and there in a bin for serpents three pennies three old pennies there were shoes of all different size and she eventually found two shoes of her own size the only trouble was they were both four left feet but she bought them and then she went round to the Portobello Road and she sold the expensive shoes she was wearing and she said as she always did it's all for China and these two left shoes she wore all the way across Europe across Asia and even when she had a great deal of walking to do she was still wearing these uncomfortable shoes which must have done great harm to her feet in the end Gladys knew she needed a good foundation if she was to teach the Bible she needed to study it and often this she did on her own and if she was to preach the gospel well she needed to practice that too practical as she was she decided to begin preaching in a park crossing an ocean will not make me a missionary if I can't be one at home she thought and so she went to speaker's corner in London to practice and you can just imagine her standing on a box as most speakers do but she was only five foot tall and she would have been heckled she would have had things thrown at her it must have been really good practice for her for what she was going to get when she went to China she knew only things she suffered in London it was going to be far worse in China but it gave her good experience of actually presenting the gospel to people who were antagonistic towards them one time she was working for a young husband who had been working in China and in his library there were hundreds of books about China and of course she didn't know anything about it really so when she dusted the room each day she took one book from the shelf and she devoured it at nighttime and then put it back the next day and took another book until one day he called her into the study and he said Gladys or probably miss Eyre what he would call her you have been stealing books from me and she broke down and said no I've not been stealing books but God has called me to be a missionary in China and I want to know what I can about and from there normally allowed her to read these precious books about China so she could read what God was sending her into GLaDOS saved every penny she yearned to pay for her train ticket soon GLaDOS was at the station waving goodbye to her loved ones and wondering if she would see them and her beloved country ever again going to China as a missionary was her dream though it came a considerable sacrifice she'd never been out of the country she'd never been on a ferry he's never been on the water she's never been on the large train like she was going to go on the trans-siberian railway and she didn't know Russian and she met a couple who I think he worked in the Danish Embassy and they were really interested because they'd been to a Christian convention in England and they said we'd never met a real live missionary before and so they talked and talked and this couple agreed for every night for the rest of their lives they would pray for Gladys and when they left the lady pushed into Gladys his hand a copy of Scofield's Bible and a pound note because they were pound notes in those days and Gladys thought I shall never know what's the use of a pound where I'm going but God even had plans to use that pound the journey took weeks Gladys's meals consisted of the hard boiled eggs she had packed the canned food and the biscuits which got harder by the day on her portable paraffin heated hot plate she would boil water for tea and bouillon finally the train entered Russia and the conflict between the country and China began to have an effect on Gladys's journey on the train people couldn't speak her language and so she didn't know what was happening and at one point rioting in Central Siberia everybody was getting out of the Train and all sorts of Russian instructions were being shouted out of which she didn't understand but she didn't get off the train with everybody else because she had the feeling every mile she was on the train she was one mile nearer to China but eventually she heard gunfire in the distance and the train wasn't going any and somehow the guards managed to communicate with her that up ahead there was a war and the train was going no further so she had to collect her belongings that she had with her still and walk back along the railway track a day and a half to the village the town of cheetah which was where she could get a connection it was very cold it was October November and in Siberia the nights are extremely cold she wrapped herself up in a rug with her cases around her she did wonder whether she would actually freeze to death in the night but the first night she was actually doing this she could hurt hear dogs barking in the distance and she saw or fancy somebody letting the dogs out on a cold night like this and it was only later she realized they were actually wolves finally after a complete night of walking Gladys arrived at her destination and exhausted from her ordeal she fainted coming to she was in for yet another shock Gladys was under arrest and as she was to find out confined to certain parameters of the village they didn't know what to do with her because somebody took her passport and it said on their missionary now they didn't know what a missionary was in the town of cheetah and they thought it was something to do with the Machinists they thought great we need a machinist a police agent escorted Gladys around the village while trying to convince her to stay and participate in their communist way of life after a few hours she was taken to an old hotel room and placed under house arrest desperate and afraid Gladys turned to prayer it was then that a young woman came to her you are in grave danger she warned there have been others like you that have not been allowed to leave you must get out before Gladys could answer the young woman instructed her to be ready to leave in the middle of the night that someone would come for her and so she was there shot she just couldn't sleep that night she was so she was frightened yes she prayed to God but she was very frightened there was a knock on the door she opened it cracked what could crack it was her guide who was actually very drunk by then and tried to force his way into the room but she shouted out at him in English my God will protect me I mean he couldn't understand properly but my God will protect me and she managed to shut the door when it became daybreak there was another knock she hadn't slept at all this night and there was an old man standing there and she went with him just hoping she was doing the right thing she was taken to the dark side and then the girl who'd spoken to other night before to tell us she was in danger materialized by her side uncle Ernie said well you know thank you so much for helping me can can I do anything for you she said well have you got his spare clothes said well he said well his pair of stockings have got in my pocket you can have those and here have my gloves this was just absolutely all she could give at the sound of soldiers approaching the young woman motioned Gladys to run to a certain fishing vessel waiting in the distance with that the young woman turned and fled as Gladys ran frantically towards the ship no sooner was Gladys about to board when she was suddenly pulled back by two strong hands the soldiers had caught up with her desperate Gladys did the only thing she could do she prayed suddenly it came to her the money given to her by the couple on the train Gladys took the pound note from her coat and quickly offered it to the soldiers who decided it was better to walk away with something for themselves than to drag a reluctant Gladys back to the hotel relieved Gladys was allowed to board where to her dismay the Japanese captain announced you are now my prisoner the shock soon wore off however the captain was indeed a friendly man that only wanted to help Gladys and the only way he could legally get her out was by proclaiming her a prisoner and so it was that Gladys Aylward continued her journey the captain sailed on to Japan where Gladys then boarded a ship for her final destination China eventually Gladys got onto Chinese soil she saw the general Tsin would come and meet but they the city where she was it's cool Beijing but she sent to mr. Liu because they had to have a journey on a train which was very uncomfortable but then they had on the Chinese bus again very uncomfortable and eventually she had to travel by mule and it took many days and the great deal of discomfort to even get to the town where she would be working with opinion awesome the the first meeting with Jenny Ross was really interested because Gladys had traveled half the way around the world to get to be with Jenny Lawson and when she appeared with mr. Liu in the courtyard where Jenny Lawson was she turned round and said and who are you which was not a very warm welcome Jeannie last move okay she was sensible and she had said mess with her live in China and now I had come along I am possibly sure that if we admit somewhere outside with the idea of showing up and bluffing and living together we would have passed to mix me God is a great God you know and he didn't allow that he definitely intended with us to be together and say we did not meet until we were right in the middle of China and neither of us could run about him but she did warm a bit after that and Jenny Lawson had it in mind guided by God that she would open and in which the muleteers who came to the village every day who could come to at night they could stable their mules and they could have a meal and listen to stories which is they always like to do Gladys was appalled at the idea of running an inn she had worked hard and risked everything for the sake of coming to China to spread the gospel certainly not to run an inn I'm gonna need revenge on this night slope and for the first time I heard somebody oh I think granny gee I did you check but I had never heard anybody what I called it at the gate trips so the sounds of men but although Genea never taught me how to eat Chinese who the chopstick I learnt how to play and win the souls of men tomorrow and between them they decided to set up an inn where the muleteers who came into the village each night could stay and when they stayed they would be fed and they would be presented because the Chinese absolutely loved listening to stories and so Jeannie Lawson would tell them stories and they had a Chinese cook who would also tell stories of God and stories from the Bible the only trouble was that this cook this Chinese cook so loved the story of Noah and so every story he told even if it was about Jesus all the disciples or anything like that it had no or in it he really got it muddled up and gradually Gladys had to learn how to speak Chinese they had to get the mirror tears to come in and meals are very stubborn creatures and they were just the owners couldn't do much with them in a way of guiding them once they got into the towns and the villages and so it was great as his job too as they came past the entrance to the courtyard to grab hold of the first Muir and direct them into the courtyard and then everybody would fought all the rest of them would follow and this must have been quite hard considering how short she was but she then managed to pull them all into the courtyard and then she was scared stiff because they were all there and she's you're outside Jenny you know what do I do now I don't know but once they were in no way where the Moors going to move and the point is once the immunity is realized it was a good place to stay their meals to go there each time they came so they built up their own clientele and they were very good stories they listened to as well and again I've ever times when I can honestly tell you I wish every mule was in the bottom of the food now see pasty many obstinate things and then as I got irritated with this mail and the heat my eyes would be gone through that moon gate and I just forget all about them and all the smell would be go and look at Jamie calmly sitting there I'm the man the owners of the mills leaning forward trying to get Audrey blood the facility she became Georgie one can imagine how difficult the changes were for Gladys though she felt called to China there was nothing in her past that could have prepared her for actually living there from her way of dressing to her manner of eating and sleeping nearly everything was to be learned and knew she was considered a foreign devil and as we went round the streets things were often thrown at her and she just had to get used to this until gradually over the years she won their loving respect but she still had things the Chinese where life was so different she never forgot her first beheadings she went to she saw a whole crowd in the street and thought this interesting you know let's join in and see what's happening I'm being short she could riddle her way to the front and there she saw a man who had his head on the block his hands were bound and the the guards around him lifted up the ax chopped his head off and it rolled into the crowd and Gladys was absolutely beside herself with grief and hysteria she didn't know what was going to happen and it had to be explained to her that this was the way of life in China and if she was going to live there I'm going to stay she was gonna have to get used to it as their work among the travelling Mueller tears grew Jenny took to visiting surrounding villages to also share the gospel with them and at that time Jenny Lawson was actually doing some visiting around and she went to another building and she was leaning on the banisters on the first floor and they were rotten and she actually fell down Jenny knows he did die from the ball Gladys was now alone eventually she found solace in the company of a British missionary couple that lived a distance of several days away David and Jean Davies became dear friends to Gladys the long distance between them however did not always make it possible for Gladys to partake of their company and thus she began to experience loneliness I now believe that because I was a young and single girl and alone I should move good-o since live alone anywhere in those days absolutely nothing little time china anybody has been a land of great convention women didn't go out alone Howard wrote they were all of the company fire the Mayo sudden male member of the family and if they hadn't got this and they didn't do it and so the consequence was I couldn't do it I found the dad has gone to the Kolchak simply because I had no sacrum and no one to accompany me and I learned to know the women and on to go into the village and I'd wanted to see Elsa I was happy I wanted to be seen and now I have a bounded to run more focus and every night that cult child was filled with animals and snakes well then know quite what to do about this I decided that I would have to move where but I didn't know I didn't know anybody else but I suppose dog would tell me late again and then two separate strokes came in Tanana the first was that did God put a person for one year in a particular place pour blessings upon them and then because it was uncomfortable and yet knowing that they were the only real Christian bear expect them to move and think that God the God of this and the second part love but I knew the early bit of language I had learned while I was in this place was only understood just there so that if I moved I would have to start learning an entirely new in that I wouldn't understand anybody outside and they wouldn't understand me I couldn't comment I think Gladys was left on her own without any income at all because Jenny Lawson had worked for the China in their mission therefore she had some money from them but with Jenny gone there was the question of how was glad is going to live which was a worry to her but again God had gone before she had a message to say that the Mandarin who was in charge of the town wanted to see her so she ignored that because thought I'm you know Who am I I'm not gonna go and see a Mandarin but eventually he came to see her and he was dressed in his magnificent robes carried in a sedan chair and he had his learning men round him as well and it was quite a sight that entered the courtyard and Jonathon know what to do so she bowed and then still didn't know what to do so she bowed again you know she was really over awed by this figure and he said to her did you know that it's now illegal in China for the children's feet to be bound because young children young girls had their feet bound fairly soon or when they were really quite young I was the only woman with unbound when the little girl is from two to four years old and she could totally balance on both baby sings and walk those baby steps her people bounded by the time she was from 11 to 14 her feet were finished they were they were crippled for life and this became outlawed and therefore all the feet had to if the damage hadn't been done the feet could be unbound but when new babies and new young girls came along their feet were not to be bound and the Mandarin has a job of finding somebody who could go around to the villages and educate the mothers and he asked Gladys to find somebody and she couldn't so he said right you would have to do it we heard on each side of the courtyard getting no nearer to each other and if using all those who listens with I wish in any way into my heart was the thought that I had gone to China for Jesus Christ and I didn't want to be mixed up with governments and things and politics and all these sort of things I wasn't thinking I was interested in Seoul for the load of blocks but you know I I couldn't get rid of this man they just stayed on and on and on it seems is it a way of the distance somewhere in the medieval it sounded just like my brother it wasn't even still hear anything and I was in the middle of China but the very words for their son across the kitchen of me all those years was all if you really believe somebody ought to be jelly why don't you go yourself hey there nothing to do with me you really believe they should ban missing why don't you do something about it and I and expected to jump something I had never dreamed also from Buddha saw something new in work I became an employee of the Chinese national government the official office I didn't get the job because I said the Chinese which I get all because I knew how to climb mountains which again I didn't saw that I knew anything about the people of those mountains we took off ideas simply because of the time they said that's what you have to purchase all of his healthy God that that murmur didn't need my hands that he needed nothing any come so she sits the Mandarin quite boldly yes I will do this so long as I am allowed to talk about my god as I go and so she did she went to around the neighboring villages seeing the mothers helping them encouraging them and telling them about the Lord so it was just a wonderful way of spreading the good news but people have arrived in a village and I'm standing on the middle of the fishing grounds which is also in the middle of every village which the morass everybody else and says we filled up but anyway you do the same exam and they learn to see and they listen to stories on this the book and they read the diary it created men and women as little babies and the seat for the same because expected them to the me Gladys could now see how God's providence had led her to little yang Cheng these were happy years for her she had passed the test of her calling by making her way to China even alone she had passed the test of being the only foreigner among the Chinese who had now come to respect her they named her iWay de the virtuous one eventually she took yet one more step to identify with the people she had grown to love she decided that if she was going to work with the Chinese she just had to become one of them and so she destroyed her British passport to citizenship and she did become she applied for and she gained to get Chinese citizenship she dressed like the Chinese mean she just became as much like than she possibly could and God was blessing in a most amazing way those villages of tanah for Jesus Christ I'd had burned out the bonfire of their idols and their ancestral God and literally sang in my heart as they knelt to take Jesus of their fame but added hello I ate with Lainey well I came to the final conclusion I got the solution to all the problems in the black in my heart and in my life and in the need of the city if I had I then I believe because God answers pray that one day I would see coming on a mule train or on a camel train a young me o dejoy having somebody to climb the mountains with somebody to discuss things with somebody that thing wasn't appraising pretty didn't a well-known author Elizabeth Elliott widow of Jim Elliot the martyr had an opportunity to meet with Gladys in Alberta Canada she recounts the encounter she and I were sitting on the sulfur together one day talking about what it's like to be a missionary and single I had then become a widow and she herself had never married but she said when I realized what I had missed in not being married I prayed that the Lord would send a man straight from England right to where I was and to have him propose and I can remember how she looked at me with her piercing black eyes and she shook her little bony finger at me and she said Elizabeth he called him but he never came you can imagine I never forgot that well she she carried on working going around the villages doing this work the mandarins and she thought well this is what God wanted to do and that was the end of it and then she was out in the village one day and a woman approached her holding a bundle and said would you like this so Gladys said no not really and said well you know give me whatever money you've got for it you can have it and it's so what Gladys said we're only got nine prints on me and that that the woman thrust this bundling to her hands and she burn us it was a little girl and she had just bought a little girl Bernanke's which was the sort of thing that was darling in China in those days and so of course that having happened she just had to call this little girl nine pence if she realized that nine pence wasn't eating all the food she was given and that is questioned why this was an UMP and said well there's a little boy out there who's got nothing to eat so if I eat less and you eat less we can give the extra bit to this little boy and so eventually this little boy was brought in and it just couldn't be traced who we belong to at all so he joined it as a growing family and what other name could he be called but this that was how let's join the family I never dream that I was buying my first daughter a little girl who was going to come into my life and mean so much from her there came run by Ram the others all in different ways all under different circumstances are so different in their temperaments and characteristics that's okay and I praise God for them he kept the second he closed it I said oh no I don't think I can bear anymore I believe so she out of program number four one woman and please those same two anymore but you know God doesn't over than see our prayers to expand that was the year the world began and down being pushed in front of the ever advancing Japanese enemy came hundreds and thousands of lonely pathetic refugees and then they had passed through our little plate there are always a few children left behind so the family grew and grew and told about over eight the Mandarin came to respect Gladys very much and one day Gladys had a message from the Mandarin saying there's a right in the prison would you go and sort it out now prisons in China were not like prisons in England or any of the other countries around the prisoners were in there for life because they they couldn't get out and they had no money they had no clothes they didn't have enough food they had nothing to do and then they were just desperate desperate men even if they were imprisoned for a crime that wasn't very great they were completely desperate and this one day somehow one of the prisoners got hold of an axe and he was rushing around the the jail brandishing the axe and actually managed to kill a couple of people and the prison officials were absolutely petrified and so Gladys was sent for and she was absolutely petrified but as she went through the barriers to get into the prison she just had to pray god I can't cope with this you must you must just take over for me she was pushed inside the gate was shut behind him and there she was faced by the blood splattered walls of the people who died the man was rushing around burnishing the X the other prisoners were huddled against the walls absolutely scared and he turned and approached Bertus and she held out her hand and said in Mandarin which he had enough to say then give that to me and she looked into the crazed eyes of them the crazed eyes of the man and the man looked back into her blue eyes and gradually he know at the X and she took herself outside and then she went to the prison governor and said no wonder these prisoners are rioting they've got nothing to do no hope at all and she was eventually able to arrange that they could keep rabbits so they could then actually have food they could breathe the rabbits she arranged it that there were various trades for them to do and they had hope and quite a few of the prisoners did actually become Christians though yang Cheng was tucked away in the mountains news of the Japanese invasion of China soon reached the village however no one in the village expected the war would actually reach them they thought they were quite safe and one morning when Gladys and her staff were at prayers there was a drone overhead now instinctively Gladys knew what it was when she had heard bombs going over London in the First World War she heard the planes going over but the people who village didn't know they all rushed out to see what was happening and stood in the village square looking up at the sky as the bombs rained down on them and many many of the Chinese were killed Gladys was injured and then gradually Gladys was able to organize people to help each other and she again was great help to the Mandarin when they just tried to cope with the devastation in the city which is something they'd never known before as a result of war casualties Gladys's family grew instantly she not only had her own adopted children but after the bombs on yang Ching more children were left orphans and Gladys took them under her care the village was changed forever but people tried to cope and continued with some normality once again Gladys was soon on the road as the official foot inspector she had taken on Chinese nationality and therefore she was going to look after the Chinese and as she went around the villages she took note of where the enemy was and then she did report back to the the ninth army to say where they were and so she was a spy and there was a price on her head and there was a poster that went up in the city saying you know if you know where she is pandering and and we will pay your reward it was during this time that Gladys decided to take the children to one of the nearby mountain villages for both safety and security before her departure however the Mandarin called for one final audience with his foot inspector when eventually the whole village had to be deserted because it was being attacked by the Japanese the Mandarin and all his learned men had a meeting to decide what would happen and Gladys was invited to this and it was absolutely unknown for European to be invited to this sort of meeting so she won completely won his respect uncertain they would ever meet again the Mandarin wanted to express his gratitude to Gladys for her sacrificial care and devotion to his people even when she was initially rejected after years of observing her dedication Gladys's example had deeply affected the Mandarin and he wished to join her in her faith the Mandarin of yang Cheng became a Christian as she was overjoyed Gladys was at the same time deeply saddened as she bid farewell to the ruler of her village and her friend vladus made her way to the mountain village they never saw each other again Gladys's group of children had now grown to well over 100 and their safety was of utmost importance and so it was decided that gladly should be sent out she was actually quite a danger because she was known to be a missionary and she needed to be cut out the area at any rate and so children were brought to her from all connections around the town nearly a hundred children she had the job of taking them as the only adult she had a few teenage girls a couple of teenage boys but she was the only person to take them on this long dangerous journey away from the invading armies the trip was a grueling one weeks and weeks of climbing over high mountain ranges wore on the young children as well as Gladys they experienced cold and hunger and the lack of shelter forced them to sleep in the cold night air the older children tired as they were themselves helped to care for the very small ones no doubt it was a difficult time for Gladys both physically and emotionally it was very dangerous so they never knew when they were going to meet enemy soldiers they were tired that they were hungry their shoes wore out and they must have thought they were never going to actually to get to safety they had to cross the Yellow River and it was a wide river they had no means of getting across and there was nobody around the villages were deserted they hoped they would get help from their local villagers but there was nobody there and so they just sat on the shore and didn't know what to do the younger children thought it was great they splashed in the water and sword it was fun and GLaDOS at this point was really really no and one of the older girls said to her it's like Moses he needed to cross the that I'd see and GLaDOS snapped back at her and said yes but I'm not Moses and that this isn't the Red Sea and the girl turned round to her and said no but gods the same they absolutely brought her up short and thought of yes it's the second God if God saved Israelites he can save us and so they prayed and suddenly into the distance appeared some soldiers who were friendly soldiers who were amazed to see them there they thought everyone was deserted and they did eventually arranged for boats from the other side to come and take them over hoping they wouldn't be bombed by the enemy meanwhile but they were and quite a few crossings taken over the Yellow River and cope was just the same as he'd helped Moses he helped Redis once safely across glados procured a coal train that provided the children a much-needed rest while they continued their journey sadly the very next day the train stopped short of its goal due to close enemy presence they could go no further devastated but undeterred GLaDOS encouraged the children as they continued their way across the mountains on foot days later on the verge of collapse the group finally arrived at Xian only to be met with further disappointment to Gladys's horror the village closed its gates to them though she pleaded for the sake of the children the guards told GLaDOS that the city was overwhelmed with refugees they could not possibly take more once again vladus and the children were forced to walk to the next village which was days away as they neared the village of foo Fang GLaDOS was ill and fatigued as were many of the children with little strength left she waited to see if the village would welcome them in welcome to foofy the words rang in Gladys's ears as the children rejoiced elated GLaDOS fainted from exhaustion she was ill she was delirious typhoid fever typhus pneumonia and it was only because the the doctor in the area had been sent some drugs from America as an experimental almost but he was able to save her life but it was many months before she got back her physical strength or her emotional and mental strength her health was really quite undermined by this tremendous responsibility and journey she'd made GLaDOS remained there working nearly a year later a reporter made his way to the city while in conversation with GLaDOS he inquired have you heard about the English woman who rescued some children by trekking across the mountains I hear she was called away de GLaDOS turned to the man I am she realizing that she had not been back in England for nearly 20 years the reporter helped raise money for her trip and soon thereafter GLaDOS found herself on a train platform in London the city of London was as foreign to her as she looked to the Londoners her parents had promised to meet her but they could not seem to find her anywhere finally when all the other passengers had gone the old couple found themselves the only people on the platform save for an old Chinese woman to their surprise and delight they finally realized this was their GLaDOS when she eventually got back to England she was approached by a man called Adam Burgess who was doing a programme of people who done famous outstanding things and he had to go to him and to see this lady and he was greeted by somebody in very ordinary clothes who looked extremely ordinary so oh dear I've made a mistake here but he he said well you know I want to come and talk to you about your life in China and the exciting thing is you've done so well you know I haven't really done anything exciting at all and then eventually he thought I really have made a mistake this timely around did you sort of tell me about something you did well I did take a few children across the mountain to escape from the Japanese about how many more nearly a hundred and who did you have with you well no I was the only adult and we did have to free from the army and then she went on he just realized he had the most fascinating story and he had to drag it out of her because she really didn't think it was anything amazing as her story became known Gladys was invited to speak at many churches and gatherings though she found joy in sharing about God's faithfulness and her beloved yang Cheng Gladys's heart off an egg for her adopted children which had to remain in China and each time I brought my hat I praise God for them and handed them over to him they've given to me to laugh and to bring her and I prayed and long the third should go out to be the Testament in the witness which I learned to be in the place where they were going I don't know the trainer's lots of them was read great work in her her break your heart but protect the smaller ones of it as you drove as long as possible if you had a time in England and while she was in England she went and she talked all over the country and many people at that time heard her speak and then when her father had died earlier on and then her mother died she felt free to go back she went back to Hong Kong because she couldn't go into China because it was communist and as a Christian and a missionary she couldn't go back so she did the best she could she went to Hong Kong and she works there for a few years and her I took a little room and I sort of set by the door - he does it right I prayed and expected that God would show me what to do and rain a miracle happen I miss one day in the street one of my own girl I thought he was dead he's old I was dead and now right there in the middle verse great crowds of people women and we join them we opened right there in carloon what is now the hope mission then in the midst of all this didn't God is it rare for the first time I went home one night to the little room that I was living in to discover that Humber they had already been in it they had not stolen anything but they had left right there in the brush spell a newborn baby and I picked up the bell with the baby in it and I said oh no loads of some mistake here now I do not run under burn baby and you know that I have nothing to feed it on close it in or any change in the classrooms and also may I remind you that mothers are young I am well over fifty yellow Jesus I promise I will never again ask anyone to do something that I believe you are asking me the person that is over to do and I took the baby so it but before long there were other babies people got the idea that I love babies the number of children dropped off at Gladys's door soon grew and with the help of her son she found an old hotel which she turned into the Gladys Aylward children's home once the home was established Gladys made her way to Taiwan where she continued her work with children it was while there that a Hollywood studio released a movie about her rescuing children from yang Cheng the movie was a success and gathered many accolades and Academy Award nominations but brought little joy to Gladys although the movie was inspirational and in many ways brought glory to God internationally Gladys was uncomfortable for the way in which she was portrayed she was dismayed that a love interest was created to enhance the film eventually setting the story straight prompted her to write a book the small woman shunning any fame Gladys decided to quietly continue her work with orphaned children in Taiwan fruit that is seen to this day not only in the many accounts written of this courageous woman's life but in the lives of those she touched and helped to change one day they told me they said oh well versa evangelist here her name is a great l word Gladys Aylward she came to our town from Taipei and then she's a very good they said do you like to go I said well let's go and listen and then so we win and then that's the time I made her and the Holy Spirit is working my heart I teared Anu down and accept Jesus little story because I accept Jesus my father do now want me he said if you you have a your Heavenly Father you don't need me so my father didn't allow me and then the greatest greatest word is it's a mercy to me unless he accept me as her son and then take me and support me go through my high school and also help me to go to seminary all the kids call her mother and then I saw her that can't call your mother - she said of course you are my son in in Lourdes before before she died she said it do you like to have my ring and you can pick up my ring my watch my necklace or my Bible you can pick up one I said can I have your Bible she said of course I feel so great you like to have my Bible doesn't the bad thing I want to give to you she lives in a very simple house and then she doesn't have a car every time she goes out she just have a tricycle you know somebody right in front and then she sit on the back that's a tricycle to herself like three meals a day like a bagel with a salty egg that maybe that's just the food for her and then if she won't buy some time the people outside her say whether you have a good salary why don't you do in there she likes she said I want to use every penny I saved for my children and for the children in orphanage and supported my children to go to school she really inspired me I can see the love of Jesus through her life and then through her face she had given her all for God and it made me want to give more and more of myself for God and so it really did as I as I wrote the book and as I studied her life it did increase the depth of my Christianity from my love for God and desire to serve Him she persevered to the end whatever she went through she had just one direction to please God and she didn't do it for half her life she did it right to the very last day of her life in spite of everything she talked to God as her friend he was a friend and he was her Savior klog did not send me to Africa you haven't been good in it it doesn't send me into your slums of London II knew I wasn't any good he sent me into the middle of Chang they got a new rights attorney and I believed in him that this way he does so with each one I had not done that I wanted to I have not beaten but I wanted around that I would have chosen I have not lived in a house that I would have ever looked at twice around as I've told you for a husband and baby secures and laughs didn't did left me alone for 17 years the Friends of Chinese back I don't know anything about your latest novels pictures period I live in a rather al-jadid world and I suppose you say well is our miserable friend I remember the heaviest women that I've ever stepped in said I had a great friend and someone else's children Marad loved with a great love because Jesus Christ loves me and I'm now receiving love back from oh lord give us freedom freedom and reason that you might be able to pick us up put a stand and uses women there and how you like the Fremen might know how much you love them we pray right now not only flowers rose but for those when we should be upholding and keeping those lone remission me sick present tired of the heat or the cold surrounded by hedonism superstition royalty and sing give us vision no Justin team dream that we may know something of careless what it touched under law so that we may learn not only how to play that how to do other beam how to go and have again [Music]

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Length: 61min 55sec (3715 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 09 2020