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Genre/Form: | Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hendershot, Kathryn Reese, 1946- E. Stanley Jones had a wife. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press : Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements, 2007 (OCoLC)607614889 Online version: Hendershot, Kathryn Reese, 1946- E. Stanley Jones had a wife. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press : Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements, 2007 (OCoLC)608888962 |
Named Person: | Mabel Lossing Jones; Mabel Lossing Jones |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathryn Reese Hendershot |
ISBN: | 9780810857872 0810857871 |
OCLC Number: | 73926476 |
Description: | xxvi, 179 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Beginnings -- Assignment Sitapur -- Transitions, trials, and travels -- Furlough frustrations -- Round three -- Finishing touches -- Contributions to mission and holiness. |
Series Title: | Revitalization: explorations in world Christian movements.; Pietist and Wesleyan studies, no. 21. |
Other Titles: | Eli Stanley Jones had a wife |
Responsibility: | Kathryn Reese Hendershot. |
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Abstract:
"Mabel Lossing was commissioned to India in 1904 by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She served at the Khandwa Girls' Orphanage and later trained teachers at the Lal Bagh School in Lucknow, India. Lossing was singled out in June 1909 by the British colonial government to start a teacher-training school in Hawa Bagh. After a year on furlough, she returned to India as a missionary for the Methodist Episcopal Church and married E. Stanley Jones in 1911. She corresponded regularly with Mahatma Gandhi on matters of education and discipline, sat on the Municipal Council of Sitapur with ten Hindu men and ten Muslim men for 20 years, and served on the Board of Governors of Isabella Thoburn College."
"Mabel Lossing Jones was an outstanding woman in her own right, warranting the attention of the entire mission-minded community. E Stanley Jones Had a Wife promotes an understanding of a missionary who related graciously and powerfully in both social and professional arenas. Her egalitarian example informs us of a powerful, practical, and personal missiological perspective."--Jacket.

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This volume presents the first biography of Mable Lossing Jones (1878-1978), wife of the evangelist E. Stanley Jones. Hendershot aims to rectify the omission of women in missionary history and empower women in leadership positions. She examines Jones' methods, philosophy, and influence and recounts her life, including her role as a teacher trainer and missionary in India prior to her marriage, her regular correspondence with Mahatma Gandhi, and her positions on the Municipal Council of Sitapur and Board of Governors of Isabella Thoburn College. Reference and Research Book News, August 2007 Read more...
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