When the 20th Century began, China was a land very different from what it is today, and very different from the United States. Few people in China had even heard of Jesus, the one true God. Some Americans believed that God was waiting for them to take the message to China, so they and their church started a mission in South China.

One day a very sick little girl was brought to the hospital they were running. Her mother was afraid to take her there because some people said the Americans poked out the eyes of little children. A relative who knew this was not true took the little girl there when her mother was not looking. At the hospital the Americans were kind to little Jeanette (her English name) and made her well, but she cried and cried. She had been crying for a long time because so many sad things had happened to her.

When she was born, some of her relatives were so disappointed not to get a boy baby that they wanted to give her away. But her father loved her and ...