What? You came back for more bookshelves? You must be a book lover! *hands out chocolate* Let’s go upstairs again, but this time we’ll head to the room at the top of the stairs.

This is my bedroom. Please excuse the messes on the desks. I get them cleaned off, but they never seem to stay clean very long. This is also my sister’s room. Her books are over there by her bed. (She has some shelves in the other room too.)

But here we are at my last bookcase. It contains 8 shelves. We’ll take a look at some of them today. Are you ready?

I don’t know if you can read many titles on these shelves, but if you could, you might notice that nearly all of these books are about missionaries to China. Yep, China. I’ve had a heart for China, her people, and especially her children, for over 20 years now. I’ve read biography after biography of missionaries to China. (And a percentage of the sales of all my books go to two organizations who help China’s orphans.)

No, I have not read quite all of these books, but a lot of them I have. We’ll start top left. If you don’t recognize them, those two matching, fat volumes are on Hudson Taylor. Then there’s Hudson and Maria. Skip the blue book, because I don’t remember what it is (okay, I had to look, it’s Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret), and stop at the green one. That is With P’u and His Brigands written by and about Mrs. Howard Taylor (daughter-in-law of Hudson Taylor) and her husband. The little book next to it is Pearl’s Secret which you probably won’t find many places as it’s out of print as far as I know, but it was so good, and it is about the daughter of the missionary in the next book. That fat, red book is one I saved my money for a while to get as it’s also out of print. It was well worth it though! Guinness of Honan. Mrs. Howard Taylor was a Guinness before she got married. 🙂 That is followed with By Faith. Then there’s another book that is so worth reading if you can find it, Heirs Together by Marshall Broomhall. (If I am remembering right, his mother was the sister of Hudson Taylor, or somehow related to him. It’s been years since I’ve read this book.)

All right. Moving on. I don’t think I’ve read the next two books by Marshall Broomhall, but I’m sure I’ve skimmed them. The black book is Goforth of China, followed by By My Spirit. Then a a couple more books by Rosalind Goforth. Let’s move on to Behind the Ranges. Then D. E. Hoste. I think I read that one. Boy, there are so many books that overlap in time and place and people. That first yellow book is The Small Woman. I think that is my favorite biography of Gladys Aylward. I have not read C. T. Studd, but I did read Grace McBride Missionary Nurse. 🙂

Oh, those two books lying on the shelf are there because they don’t fit on my shelves. I need to do a little rearranging.

 

Okay, now on to the lower shelf. Here we start off with seven books by Mildred Cable and Fransesca French. I have read Grace, Child of the Gobi (that is the 6th book from the left) and The Story of Topsy. Loved them both! The Story of Topsy was written for children and I wish it was republished.

Moving on. Isobel Kuhn and then four of her books which I have read. Ascent to the Tribes, In the Arena, Green Leaf in Drought, and Nests Above the Abyss. All well worth your reading. On Her Own is the story of Lottie Moon. A Boy’s War is a must read if you like missionary stories, WWII, and biographies. The author recounts his story of being a boy in a Japanese prisoner camp in China. He was in the same one as Eric Liddell!

If you want to learn about Billy Graham’s wife’s father, read A Foreign Devil in China. I never get on an elevator without remembering that book! Don’t ask me why, just go read it. 🙂 And now two books that most people don’t know about, but they are extra special to me because the author of the second book lived in the same city I do, and I actually met him! I don’t remember it though. I was young. His mother wrote the first book. The Dogs May Bark but the Caravan Moves On. How’s that for a title? Then Exodus to a Hidden Valley. This book is sort of like Swiss Family Robinson only with missionaries and Christians who fled from communist China to the jungles of Burma who didn’t want to be found.

The New Lottie Moon Story. Wait a minute, why is that book not with my other Lottie Moon book? I think I need to rearrange a bit more. A Promise is to Keep. Eric Liddell (though I have read and like Pure Gold better than this version; I just don’t happen to own my own copy) brings the China books to a close.

And I’ll finish off the shelf with Take My Hands (if you like medical and missionary read this), Evidence Not Seen, and A Chance To Die. Oh, the other two books lying down are George Muller and The Hiding Place.

And that, my readers, is enough for today! How many of these books have you read? Are there some missionaries that you now want to read about? What missionary stories do you like?