A Chance to Die by Elisabeth Elliot

Author:Elisabeth Elliot [Elliot Elisabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Amy Carmichael (1867-1951);Missionaries—India—Biography;Missionaries—United States—Biography;Dohnavur Fellowship;REL012030;FAM043000;YAN051040
ISBN: 9781493434459
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

1. The Continuation of a Story, pp. 35ff.

2. Overweights of Joy, p. 264.

3. Gold Cord, p. 56.

Chapter 24

Strife of Tongues

Early in 1907 seven Dohnavur girls were baptized in one of the “shallow sheets of water that make our countryside so beautiful after rain. . . . Behind the calm, bright water, more present in a sense than even the hills whose shore that water washed, we saw the striped walls of the temples. There are joys that are unearthly in their power and in their sweetness.”

Amy had learned to expect attack from the enemy of souls whenever an Indian took an uncompromising stand as a Christian. As the Assyrian king Sennacherib swept down upon Israel just after a time of feasting and gladness, so the enemy struck the little company of Dohnavur. This time it was a triple attack. Amy herself, thoroughly exhausted to the point of breakdown, was ordered home. Of course she disobeyed the order. Home? India was home. To leave it was not an option. But she did go to Ooty where climate and civilized comforts provided respite. While she was gone, a particularly virile kind of dysentery swept the nursery in Neyoor. One baby with dysentery is a full-time job for a mother. Ponnammal, with sixteen babies ill at once, wrote to Amma, “All is windy about us now, but the wind will not last always. The waves beat into our boat; but when the Lord says, Peace, be still, they will lie down. Let all your prayer for us be that we may rest in the will of God while the wind lasts.” Ten of the babies died. Sometimes a grave had to be dug to hold two of them. “My little heart’s joy, my own little jewel-of-the-eye has gone. But Jesus stays with me,” wrote Ponnammal.

News of the worst of the three attacks came in a letter from Walker, who was holding the fort at Dohnavur. The enemy had triumphed this time. What Amy called “a great wind from the wilderness” blew on a girl named Jeyanie, one of the convert workers, so that she was under serious suspicion of wrongdoing. It is not named, but in Amy’s eyes was “worse than illness and death,” and Jeyanie was sent away. Then another was involved in “a coil of trouble” which ultimately rendered her useless.

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