Thou Givest... They Gather [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION In the extreme south of India, near the village of Dohna-vur, God has brought into being a work which centres around Indian children saved from an upbringing leading to an evil life. Miss Amy Carmichael, a British missionary who arrived in India in 1895 and continued there until her death in 1951, was one of the first on whom God laid the burden of these children's need. Through her response in obedience and faith, the foundations were laid of what later became the Dohnavur Fellowship, as in the course of the years she and her Indian helpers were joined by a number of men and women from overseas. Beginning with two or three children, there are now many hundreds in the "Family". Some have already grown up and become fellow-workers, caring for the children, tending the sick in Hospital (which is open to the people of the countryside) , or sharing in various other activities of the Fellowship, There is a small holiday home in the forested mountain country, about 3000 feet up, with its river and pool which are sometimes referred to in these pages. This is a few miles west of Dohnavur, which itself is set in the plains. ac Aynrnn ^^ Indian and European alike as Amma, which is the i ama r^r mother By this name she also became known, through her books and through her letters, to friends all over the world who by their prayers and gifts set forward the work. An accident in 1931, followed by illness, confined her almost entirely to her room for the remaining years of her life. Although often in pain she wrote much during that time, and also for the greater part of it continued as leader of the Fellowship and Family. One of the ways in which she kept in touch with her Family was by sharing through written or dictated Notes some spirit-