Emphasis Preaching Journal

George Nicholson writes in his Faith at Work about Gladys Aylward, a British woman missionary who went to China. Although she was not supported by a church, she did have seventy cents with which to buy an unwanted child. As an elderly woman, she moved to Formosa, too old to raise children. One day in a bus station she observed a parcel package that moved a little. After two hours the custodian claimed it for himself. Unwrapping it he found a baby, dirty, weak, and malnourished. He gave it to her and she said, "No, Lord ... not again! I'm too old. I've brought up eighty.