“Grandmother” Wang

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 1, 1910

“Grandmother” Wang

The organ of Methodist missions reports the death, at eighty-six, of “Grandmother” Wang, of wheelbarrow fame. Long ago her son wheeled his mother four hundred miles, from Anking to Peking, that she might learn to read the Bible for herself. Of late years her strength had been unequal to much travel among the villages, so oftentimes she sat in the gate of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society compound at Tai-anfu, preaching Jesus to the passers-by. As she herself wrote, two years ago: “I do not know whether or not the Lord will still give me so much strength; but if I can do nothing else, here is the earth gate, with many passers-by. I’ll just sit in it, and speak a word when I can.”