So now she had to lead 100 children through the countryside by herself.
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The original poster for the movie (Just as Gladys was packing the few belongings that she and the children owned (including food for those hard weeks ahead) she found another 50 orphans on the inn's porch. She had no choice but to take the children to safety to have a chance to survive through the war, so it was decided - she and the fifty children were going. Lin told her that in the province next to them there were trucks leaving and taking children to safety, but they had to be there within 3 weeks or trucks would leave without them. By the time Lin (a man she fell in love with and was a general in the army) forced her to leave, she had taken in 50 children all under the age of 13. Gladys took these children in and called them her own. When the Second Sino-Japanese War started, many babies were left behind by escaping parents. While she did this job she also became a peacemaker, stopping numerous fights at jails and street ways. The Chinese elected her as foot inspector (a job nobody wanted because they had to go around and check to see if people bound their female children's feet - it was traditional for women to do this to their children because they all wanted them to have small feet in order to be attractive to men). Gladys Aylward also could speak Chinese fluently. Eventually, she took over the inn and named it the Inn of the Eight Happinesses because of an old Chinese philosophy that there are seven happinesses. At the inn they housed traveling merchants and gave them what they wanted - a hot meal and Bible stories. When she got to China she settled in the town of Yangcheng and found a small inn where the owner, Jeannie Lawson, needed assistance. So she saved up all her money that she got from working as a maid and bought a ticket on the Trans-Siberian Railway, a more dangerous but cheaper way to go. She was rejected to become a missionary numerous times because she was not as equipped as other missonaries to serve, because of a minor health issue. Ingrid Bergman, actress who played Alyward (.uk)įrom the beginning, she put her whole life towards becoming a missionary. She lived a well-spent and productive life. She put her all in everything she did, including managing an inn, becoming a foot inspector and peacemaker, and leading 100 orphans out of China to safety during the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. She lived a respectable and healthy life. She has done the unthinkable by showing her bravery and courage while taking a life-changing journey to a town in China called Yangcheng. This is Gladys Aylward with one of her children (Anyone who has heard the story of Gladys Aylward knows how inspirational she is.
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