Chapters 13 and 14 Summary and Analysis

Chapter 13: Gladys continues to improve from her bout with typhus with the kind help of fellow Christians. She hands all her children over to a mission, so she can concentrate on preaching. A group of college students stay near one night, having been driven from someplace else by war, and she finds them huddled over a map of northwest China, taking turns putting pins in parts of it like it was Pin the Tail on the Donkey. They explain that wherever they put their pin, they are praying for that village or region and especially praying for someone to bring God there, as northwest China is a very rural, forgotten place. Gladys feels she has seen this for a reason, and she volunteers to visit this region.

With the help of a doctor, Dr. Huang, she goes deep into...