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She has done a beautiful thing for me : portraits of Christian women in Asia

Print Book, English, 2005
OMF Literature, Manila, Philippines, 2005
Biographies
375 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9789715118941, 9715118941
64201090
1. Introduction: She has done a beautiful thing for me
2. Women in mission
3. Mother of four rulers : Sorkaktani (d. 1252)
4. A teenaged pioneer missionary : Harriet Atwood Newell (1793-1812)
5. Letters home from Japan : Margaret T.K. Ballagh (1840-1909)
6. The law of service : Isabella Thoburn (1840-1901)
7. A woman's voice in India : Pandita Ramabai Dongre (1858-1922)
8. Physician to the Korean queen : Lillias S. Horton Underwood, M.D. (1851-1921)
9. Healing among the poor in Manila : S. Rebecca Parrish, M.D. (1869-1952)
10. She became the tiger of the school : Tena Holkeboer (1895-1965)
11. Do it! Do it! Do it! : Geertruida J. Dreckmeier (1895-1992)
12. Mother of ten, woman of prayer : Tong Tan Tjien Nio (1909-1977)
13. I am fifth-generation Japanese Christian : Minato Akiko (1932- )
14. A missionary to her own people : Lucy del Carmen Apostol (1937- )
15. Thinker, writer, Christian activist : Melba Padilla Maggay (1950- )