The Parlor Maid in God's Quiver

Gladys Aylward stood barely five feet tall, a parlor maid from Edmonton, London, with no university degree and no missionary board willing to send her. In 1932, the China Inland Mission rejected her application — she was too old at thirty, too uneducated, too unlikely. She might have believed her calling was a mistake, that the fire God had kindled in her heart since girlhood had been for nothing.…