The Parlour Maid Who Walked to China

In 1930, a London parlour maid named Gladys Aylward sat in a small room and wept. The China Inland Mission had rejected her application. At twenty-eight, she had failed her theological exams. The mission board's verdict was final: she was not suitable for overseas service. The builders had examined the stone and set it aside. But Gladys refused to accept that verdict as God's verdict.…