Chapters 15 and 16 Summary and Analysis

Chapter 15: The war is over, and Gladys has taken a position at a church to receive war refugees. In this filthy and unkempt church she receives a visit from the Lord, not only a voice but a body. He instructs her he will come back to this church in 40 days to bless it. This gives Gladys forty days to clean it up. Eventually she has several people helping her, and by the 40 days the church is spotless and something of which to be proud. They have a gospel campaign, and to Gladys' joy it seems hundreds of people are converting to Christianity.

Unfortunately, this is a sort of calm before the storm. Communism enters the village in the form of hard-line government officials. They make everyone take a long questionnaire, evaluating their loyalty to the government. Anyone who does...