She regularly visited the Candidates' Department of the China Inland Mission
in London during school holidays until she left school. She then spent six months training at the Mission, confirming her wish to be a...
Cultural formation
Mildred Cable
MC
, in her teens, cut short a holiday to hear a missionary from China speaking in her home town about the China Inland Mission
.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Something Happened. Hodder and Stoughton, 1933.
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Warner, Marina et al. “Introduction”. The Gobi Desert, Beacon Press, 1987, p. xi - xxi.
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Cultural formation
Mildred Cable
At the yearly Convention of the China Inland Mission
, MC
committed herself in public as a missionary volunteer.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Something Happened. Hodder and Stoughton, 1933.
65, 67
Education
Mildred Cable
While MC
attended Guildford Girls' High School, her parents continued to pressure her to spend all her time studiously and did not allow her to participate in school excursions or picnics. After she left school...