A chance to die : the life and legacy of Amy Carmichael

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Tide pools, pink powder, and prayers -- The hope of holiness -- Mutton chops don't matter -- The tin tabernacle -- The inescapable calling -- Small shall seem all sacrifice -- The rending -- The romance of missions -- The unrepealed commission -- The school of prayer -- Japanese head -- Not much of a halo in Ceylon -- To the India of the Raj -- Fashionable Christianity -- Company, church, Crown, and Hindu -- Straight against the dead wall -- Blissful work -- The cost of obedience -- The uninteresting, unromantic truth -- A small and desolate mite -- Children tie the mother's feet -- The vault beneath the meadow -- The impress of the signet ring -- Strife of tongues -- Place of dragons -- Love is not a sentiment -- The lesson of the weaned child -- Across the will of nature -- Grey jungle, crystal pool -- A life without fences -- Where are the men? -- Damascus blades -- Rendezvous with Robin Hood -- The sword smites sharp -- The DF is born -- A secret discipline -- Place of healing and house of prayer -- The road less traveled -- No milk biscuits -- Scrub-land -- The toad beneath the harrow -- The servant as writer -- Saint, fishwife, vegetable marrow -- Broken by the waves -- I hold me fast by thee -- The voice from the sanctum -- The razor edge -- Maintain a constant victory -- The river breaks out -- Fettered and yet free -- One thing have I desired -- Epilogue.