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Title: Everlasting Pearl
One of China's Women

Author: Anna Magdalena Johannsen

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EVERLASTING PEARL

One of China's Women

by

ANNA MAGDALENA JOHANNSEN

For Sixteen Years a Missionary in China

With Preface by Walter B. Sloan

Second Impression

[Frontispiece: EVERLASTING PEARL. The photo was taken after her
marriage to Mr. Lue.]

China Inland Mission
London, Philadelphia, Toronto, Melbourne and Shanghai
Morgan & Scott, Ltd.
12 Paternoster Buildings, London, E.C.
MCMXVIII

First Edition October 1913
Reprinted January 1918
Completing 5000 copies

PREFACE

Thirty-five years ago missionary work was commenced in the city of
Yueshan, situated on the Kwangsin River in Kiangsi, one of the central
Provinces of China.

The conversion of "Everlasting Pearl," which is the subject of the
following narrative, is a part of the harvest which has been reaped in
later years by the missionaries of the China Inland Mission, who still
continue to carry on the work in this city and neighbourhood.

In April of last year I had the privilege of spending ten days there,
and of addressing the Church on the Sundays. On the first Monday
morning we watched, with great interest, the departure of some of the
country Christians to their homes. The party consisted of a
simple-looking company of men and women, clad in the plain blue
garments that the country people usually wear. The men were walking,
but the few women, with their diminutive feet, were perched on barrows,
and one of them was pointed out as being "evangelist, pastor