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Amy Carmichael - Irish Missionary Pt.2

2/8/2015

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 Amy Carmichael, (1867 – 1951), had left Belfast thinking that she would be in China soon; she had said goodbye to the Belfast ‘Shawlies’ and the Tin Tabernacle meetings, and had gone to London to train and be prepared for life in China.  But having being turned down by the China Inland Mission’s doctor, on the grounds of ill health, she was asked to move up to Keswick in England to help with the very busy Administration of a very dear old family friend, Robert Wilson, who played a major role in the meetings held at Keswick to which preachers, missionaries and believers travelled from far and wide. During this time of waiting back in the England, Amy read and heard about mission work in Japan. The Japanese mission did not have the stringent health regulations of the Chinese mission and maybe this was the place. Arrangements were made and Amy headed out to Japan. Amy got ‘stuck in’ right away and it was not long before she was wearing a kimono and blending in with the Japanese women. She preached the Gospel from village to village and saw one, then two, then three, and then four saved at each meeting she held, but her poor health rose once more to conquer her and the doctor’s diagnoses was, “Get out of Japan as soon as possible!” Once again it seemed that her missionary dreams were shattered. Her voyage home took her through Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where kind missionaries took her in and nursed her back to health. Nothing could stop Amy from getting back in to outreach work as soon as she could. Just when she thought Ceylon might be a great place to stay a letter came from England, from her beloved Robert Wilson, asking if she could haste home to help him as he was in bad health. After all that this godly old man had done for her, Amy could not refuse, so she took the next possible voyage to England. It was during this time back there that she received a letter from a nursing friend who was working in a Mission station hospital in Bangalore, South India, where, as the friend put it, the climate was mild and gentle yet warm and dry enough for Amy’s ill health. Amy wondered if it was ‘right’ to suit her own health needs when looking for a missionary post, but she was desperate to be back in mission work and after doing all the interviews, she was accepted immediately, and one last time Amy Carmichael made an ocean voyage in the direction of Asia, only this time it would be the last time she ever saw the British Isles, as she would never return from India.

Amy’s first experience of meeting other missionaries in India, was a shocking one to her. A group of missionaries sat in their starched English clothes, eating cucumber sandwiches, whilst being served their tea, bemoaning the fact that they could not find any local volunteers to assist them with outreach work. Amy felt like a fish out of water. She knew exactly why these men and women had not succeeded in the mission field. Just as in Belfast where she had donned a shawl and lived in the slums, and as in Japan where she donned a Kimono, Amy knew that if she could live as an Indian, like an Indian, with Indians, learning to speak their language, she would immediately have more success than the cucumber sandwich missionaries. She was right, and it wasn’t long before Amy, now wearing a Sari, had a group of God-fearing women who travelled with her from village to village sharing the Gospel. There were far more challenges in India than Chinese or Japanese culture, as the complex caste system of India meant that they could get themselves in serious trouble for talking or even looking at someone of a different caste. Amy had to use wisdom to know which lady should share the Gospel with which inquirer, according to the caste system. 

After some years of travelling and sharing the Gospel, God gave Amy a new direction as very suddenly a young girl was put in her charge, and this young girl was followed by another and then a baby, and then more. These girls were rescued from being Hindu temple prostitutes (sold to the temples by their families), or from families where they had been sold as child brides. Soon Amy had reason to set up a permanent compound with houses for her growing family and the missionaries. Although never married, Amy was mother to hundreds of girls, and later boys too, who were raised in the Lord and protected from the evils of their culture and religion. Many of her ‘children’ were raised up as missionaries and greatly affected the nation of India.

Buried in India in her late 80’s, Amy, though from Belfast, is regarded as one of the most important ‘Indians’ of her time.
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Amy Carmichael- Irish Missionary Pt.1

1/8/2015

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“I am afraid you are not fit to survive in the Chinese climate. I am sorry but I shall be signing a report to forbid your travel to China.” Having already packed her tin chest with clothes and supplies for her life in China, the young lady looked at the doctor shocked—she was devastated. She begged the doctor to consider that she might get stronger once out in China, but he was certain; her previous illnesses, suffered as a result of over-work amongst the squalid, vermin and lice–infested Belfast slums, had left her body too weakened.  Turmoil rose up within her as she wondered whether she had misheard God, because she was certain that God had shown her that she was to go as a missionary to China. How was she to return to her native Belfast now having bid farewell to her loved ones and mission work she had left behind? Such are the trials of one who is to be used mightily for God, and certainly this young lady could never have imagined what God had in store for her. She had not misheard Him, for in not being permitted to join the missionary work in China, God was able to direct her to where she would remain for all her adult life—India!

Amy Carmichael (1867 – 1951), was born the eldest child to wealthy Mill owners in Belfast, who were devout and sincere Christians. Amy attended church and took part in prayers and devotions at home, but was very protected from the ‘real’ life of the majority of those ‘slaving’ to make Irish linen and Irish flour famous. One day when walking home from church, Amy and two of her siblings were moved to help a very elderly lady carry her burden of sticks back to her home. The ragged, old woman smelled and people whom Amy knew, crossed the road to the other side of the street to avoid the strange foursome. As Amy was walking with the old lady a scripture she had heard time and again came back to her with such life, it was as if someone was reading it aloud to her: “Gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay and stubble; every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.”   (I Cor3:12-15)

This marked Amy’s life and although just a teenager, she began to do everything she could to share the Gospel. She held children’s meetings in the back garden and wrote tracts and classes for them. Hungry for more outreach work, she began to go with older brethren in to the Belfast slums to share the Gospel. One day, she was shocked to find that a woman she had mistaken for a very old woman, was in fact a girl the same age as herself. She learnt that these young women laboured so hard in the mills that their bodies were bent and beaten from physical wear. They were known as the ‘Shawlies’ because they could not afford hats, so they pulled their shawls up over their heads to bring some warmth against the bitter Belfast winds. Within a year of going to the slums, Amy had around 400 ‘Shawlies’ attending her Gospel meetings. The church hall in which she was meeting was growing too small and Amy began to pray for their own meeting house. Without asking for the finances, money came to Amy within a very short period of time to buy a piece of land and erect a ‘Tin Tabernacle’ which accommodated meetings everyday for the ‘Shawlies’. This principle of not making her needs known to anyone but God was one she continued all her life. After around two years of working night and day—and even living in the slums—Amy became very ill and weak. It was this illness which weakened her and resulted in the devastating diagnoses some years later. BUT GOD had other plans for Amy.  She could never have planned the years ahead, and all the work she had done in the Belfast slums prepared her for the more than 50 years on the mission field.

(to be continued…)
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