Monday, May 19, 2008

Amy Carmichael's "Gold Cord"

The story of Amy Carmichael's mission to India in her own words. Taking place in the early half of the twentieth century this book was recommended to missions students at Covenant Seminary by Jerram Barrs of the Francis Schaeffer Institute. Amy is an example to us from Church History of one of the most "unblemished" and simplest examples of a life wholly dedicated to Christ. She gave of herself to a people that could never possibly repay her and the whole mission was one in which all glory went to God. Her life shows us what the spirit of Mary's "fiat" must have been like in the life of an individual Believer.