Mildred Cable

Alice Mildred Cable盖 群英( born February 21, 1878 in Guildford, † April 30, 1952 ) was a missionary of the China Inland Mission.

Life

Cable was the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant in Guildford and had decided early in life to become a missionary. She studied pharmacy and Human Sciences at the University of London. She was first romantically involved with a man who wanted to be a missionary, but he then changed his mind and did not want to marry her, without that she would give up this intention. She broke off the engagement and joined in 1901 the China Inland Mission to. There she met Evangeline (Eva ) French, a missionary who wanted to return to their first home leave to China. Both worked for the rest of their lives together.

Cable and French were stationed in Huozhou, Shanxi and traveled the environment. Eva's younger sister Francesca was true both in 1910 ( according to some sources in 1908 ) and they became known as the "trio". After 20 years in Huozhou they thought that the mission should be placed in the hands of Chinese employees. They then wanted to work in the relatively unknown, predominantly Muslim western China. While there were concerns, however, to let proselytize women in this region, but their proposal was finally adopted in 1923. Starting point of the " trio" was Jiuquan, in the far west of Gansu Province.

Travel in Central Asia

The next 13 years, according to the words of Mildred Cable: " From Etzingol to Turpan, from Jiuquan to Chuguchak, we spent ... years following the trade routes, caravan routes, studied countless paths and explore hidden oases .... Five times we crossed the wilderness, and became a part of her life. " About Cables and Frenchs book " The Gobi Desert " was told that "this is perhaps the best of many good books on Central Asia and the ancient Silk Road through the deserts of western China. "

In June 1923, she traveled to Central Asia 1500 miles ( 2414 km ), to evangelize, and reached Zhangye ( then called Kantschou ). Zhangye was the last city within the Great Wall. A Chinese evangelist already worked there, and at his request they stopped at a Bible school over the winter. When the summer came, they traveled on, by the Hexi Corridor to the west, this time with some of the Chinese faithful who had trained. They rented houses for themselves and a building for a church in Jiuquan, which then their mission was. From Jiuquan out they went on extended trips, sold and gave away Bibles and Christian literature, to the Tibetan villages in Qinghai Province to Mongolian settlements and Muslim communities in the province of Xinjiang. They studied the Uighur language in order to speak with Muslim women can, where there were few converts among the Muslims. Crescent Lake was one of the oases, the Cable and the French sisters visited.

The female trio was independent, strong-willed and courageous. Eva French was criticized for because in its Chinese community Christmas Eve 1924 Communion celebrated, which at that time only men were allowed. She let herself but not intimidated by the critics, and Mildred Cable celebrated on the following Easter also communion. Your mode of travel in Central Asia differed from the contemporary expeditions of the Asia - researchers, as Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin, who often traveled in large caravans with armed guards. The female trio loaded the car with religious literature and crossed the Silk Road alone or only with a few Chinese employees.

The interpersonal relationships in the " trio" were designed so that Mildred Cable, the ' father figure ' was Francesca 's mother, Eva and the strong-willed wonderful child. Mildred was described by some of her colleagues as "Napoleon".

In their journey into the home leave to England in 1926 they traveled through Russia's Siberia. Upon her return in 1928 she undertook a year long journey in Xinjiang (then known as Chinese Turkestan ).

Other activities

The trio left China in 1936 and could not return it because in August 1938, all foreigners were ordered by the local warlords, Gansu and Xinjiang to leave. Cable and the French sisters moved to Dorset. After her retirement Cable has been a much sought-after speaker and undertook several international lecture trips. You and Francesca French were book authors. Mildred Cable was Vice -President of the British and Foreign Bible Society until her death in Dorset in 1952 In the obituary of the Times it was said to Mildred Cable:. . "There are few people whose death is a loss for thousands She was one of those make it easier to believe in the communion of saints. "

Bibliography

The majority of these works has been authored with Francesca French.

  • Mother India 's daughters: An Impression, London: Page & Thomas, ( 189 -? )
  • Something Happened, Hodder and Stoughton (1933 )
  • A Desert journal: Letter from Central Asia ( 1934)
  • Ambassadors for Christ (1935 )
  • Toward Spiritual Maturity: A Handbook for Those Who Seek It ( 1939)
  • A Parable of Jade ( 1940)
  • The Gobi Desert (1942 )
  • Wall of Spears: The Gobi Desert (1951 )
  • Important to Motorists (1935 )
  • The Book Which Demands a Verdict (1946 )
  • George Hunter Apostle of Turkestan (1948 )
  • The Red Lama (1927 )
  • Journey With A Purpose, Hodder & Stoughton (1950 )
  • Grace, Child of the Gobi (1949 )
  • The Story of Topsy; Lonely Little of Central Asia ( 1947)
  • Dispatches from North -west Kansu (1925 )
  • China. Her Life and Her People ( 1946)
  • Why Not the World? The story of the work of God through the Bible Society, London: The British and Foreign Bible Society (1952 )
  • The Challenge of Central Asia a letter survey of Tibet and its Borderlands, Mongolia, north -west Kansu, Chinese Turkistan, and Russian Central Asia, London; New York: World Dominion Press ( 1929)
  • The Bible in mission lands, Fleming H Revell Co ( 1947)
  • The Making of a Pioneer. Percy Mather of Central Asia ( 1935)
  • The needed gesture to the Church in China, London: World Dominion Press, ( 1927)
  • The Bible in the world, London: Bible Reading Fellowship ( 1947)
  • Powers of darkness: being a record of some observations in demonology (1920 )
  • Fulfillment of a dream of Pastor Hsi 's: the story of the work in Hwochow (1917 )
  • With the Bible in Central Asia, London: British and Foreign Bible Society, (1937 )
  • Towards Spiritual Maturity - A Book For Those Who Seek It ( 1939)
  • What it Means to be a Christian ( 1950)
  • Through Jade Gate And Central Asia (1939? )

Biographies

  • WJ Platt: Three Women: Mildred Cable, Francesca French, Evangeline French: The Authorized Biography ( 1964).
  • Cecil Northcott: Star Over Gobi: The Story of Mildred Cable
  • Protestant missionary
  • Missionary ( China)
  • English
  • Born in 1878
  • Died in 1952
  • Woman
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