Tel Sono (Classic Reprint): The Japanese Reformer; An Autobiography - Couverture souple

Sono, Tel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330434498 ISBN 13 : 9781330434499

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover a woman’s lifelong mission to heal and reform through faith, education, and action. This biography follows Tel Sono, a Japanese reformer who leaves her homeland to study, learn, and apply practical methods for lifting women and the poor. Read how she battles poverty, crosses cultures, and uses education as a tool for transformation.

In this engrossing account, the narrator traces a path from a family of scholars in Nagoya to a bold life abroad. Readers see how she embraces Christianity, pursues schooling in America, and begins reform work that challenges traditional roles. The narrative highlights her dedication to helping others, even when it means hardship and self‑education.

What you’ll experience:
- A front‑row look at a pioneer’s efforts to learn a new language, teach, and live by her values
- Stories of starting anew in San Francisco and Chicago, and shaping charitable, educational, and reform work
- Moments of personal growth as she negotiates faith, public life, and cultural expectations
- The early history of a modern woman’s mission across borders and communities

Ideal for readers of memoirs about cross‑cultural reform, women’s history, and the beginnings of social change through education and faith.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Tel Sono: The Japanese Reformer; An Autobiography

To write the introduction to this autobiography is indeed a pleasure and privilege. Though not a year has passed since Miss Tel Sono and I first met, we have learned "to know each other's hearts," as she so sweetly expresses it, and to enter into each other's hopes.

God's hand in the history of nations is oftentimes traced; his hand in the history of a life is here as easily traced. The groping of a heathen mind after the true God through long, weary years, until the glad finding day, is here shown. The picture of a remarkable career crowded with worthy deeds, and yet but the shadow of one more sublime toward which it looks, is here drawn. And a purpose high, noble, and Christ-like is here found.

From the "Land of the Rising Sun" Tel Sono came to where the beams of the Sun of Righteousness could find their way into the misty darkness of her heart and dispel the gloom. With a woman's heart she felt for woman's woe, and came with a woman's fixedness of purpose, determined, at whatever cost, to alleviate that woe.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330434498
• ISBN 13: 9781330434499
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 68
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