I did not have missionary train ing or missionary status. “I have been a fisher of men,” she said in a sermon de livered here in 1959. In 1950, Miss Aylward fled to Taiwan where she established an orphanage. In his review of Alan Bur gess' biography of Miss Ayl ward, “The Small Woman,” in 1957 in the New York Times, Orville Prescott wrote that it “stands or falls as a record of one remarkable woman's great adventure.” “I think,” he con tinued, “it stands four‐square and proudly straight.” Ayl ward, the brown‐eyed, modest missionary was virtually uncon scious and delirious with typhus and fever. At the end of the 27‐ day march, which was the basis of the motion picture, “Inn of the Sixth Happiness,” starring Ingrid Bergman as Miss. Steadfastly preaching the Gos pel, Miss Aylward gained her greatest fame in 1938 when she led almost a hundred children, mostly between the ages of four and eight, on a 100‐mile trek to safety from advancing Japanese invaders. I don't care if they're sprinkled or Immersed.” “We're all after the one thing-souls for Jesus Christ. “I work kind of alongside everyone,” she once remarked. She made converts, some Bap tists, some Methodists. Lawson, died within a year of her arrival but Miss Aylward persevered as a missionary de spite the fact that she had dropped out of the missionary training course of the Protes tant nondenominational China Inland Mission in England. Miss Aylward learned the dialects, eventually became a naturalized Chinese citizen and earned the sobriquet, “The Virtuous One.” Her mentor, Mrs. The Chinese came to eat and rest and were told simple Bible stories. The first Chinese Miss Aylward learned was a chant, “We have no bugs, we have no fleas. Together, they started an inn for mule drivers. Jeannie Lawson, an old‐time China missionary. Her zeal to carry the message of Christ to the Chinese led her to Yangcheng in northern China where she joined Mrs. God is sufficient.” She then set out from London to China with a bedroll, a kettle, a saucepan, a suitcase of canned food, a lit tle change and much religious fervor. Famous as the subject of the 1957 book The Small Woman and the 1958 movie The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, this English missionary brought her evangelical brand of Christianity to China during the 1930s and 1940s. She was popular for being a Religious Leader. In 1930, a petite parlorntaid told her parents: “Never get me out or pay ransom for me. Gladys Aylward was born on the 24th of February, 1902. 3 (UPI) -Gladys Aylward, a British missionary whose life story was depicted in the motion picture, “Inn of the Sixth Happiness,” died today here of pneumonia.
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