Dear Helpers together By Prayer,

Some of you have asked for this book. Some of you have prayed it into being. Please pray more than ever now!

With the exception of the "Life of Faith" Notes, these little letters were written just for "home"; remembering this, your kindness will excuse mistakes and informalities. And the same plea applies to the little sketches scattered throughout, which, with the exception of a few drawn from curios by friends, were also and only "just for home."

Others could tell you far more, and far more worthily, of the showing forth of His Hand in their part of the great Mission Trust. Will they believe that this thought presses, and that the more conscious of it we are, the more grateful we shall be for their prayer.

Please pray! Please ask that the Master may stoop to use a thing so simple and so small, to lift even one into the Love wherewith He loves.

For sympathy and help from many a Hidden One, many a time?for lessons learned from and with our Leader, Rev. Barclay Buxton, and his band in far Japan?for the love many waters cannot quench, binding us close, Japanese and English Brothers and Sisters together,?I thank Him now.

Yours in The Service,

AMY WILSON-CARMICHAEL.

So begins the first of Amy Wilson-Carmichael's many books. She describes the 15 months spent in Japan on her first missionary trip, before her best known work in India. With both humor and great passion she describes her part in the work of the China Inland Mission as they began work in Japan after the country re-opened to foreigners.
This version contains the full original text and all of the original artwork.