Samuel Rutherford prayed for God to enable him to “hold a candle to this dark world.” This was also Amy Carmichael’s prayer—and her privilege, as seen in these letters, written after an accident that left her confined to her room and in constant pain for the last twenty years of her life. From her sickbed, Amy kept in touch with colleagues and friends through a flood of personal correspondence in which she shared the riches of her spiritual experience,offering encouragement, hope, consolation and occasionally reproof. Written to specific individuals on particular occasions, these letters were never intended for publication. Still, they have a wider message that is shared in these selected extracts.Let these words of strength and comfort, from the pen of one who knows both earthly pain and heavenly provision, light your path today.

About the Author:

Amy Carmichael was impressed at an early age that “nothing is important but that which is eternal.” This understanding proved to be a foundation for her service to the Lord among the mill workers of Ireland, the Japanese briefly, and then in India where she began her ministry to children in 1895 and where she remained until her death in 1951.