Paul Arnott
A significant new biography was launched last week at the 2013 Church Missionary Society Summer Conference in Katoomba.
Called View From The Faraway Pagoda it tells the story of Sydney woman Sophie Sackville Newton who served as a missionary in Fukien province in China from the Boxer Rebellion to the Communist Insurgency.
Written by Robert Banks, who was Sophie Newton’s nephew, and his wife Linda, the book documents her thirty five years in China.
Sophie Newton and her co-workers not only shared their faith in Christ with the people of China, but also played an important role in helping to end the practice of female foot binding and the widespread use of opium.
Speaking at the launch Paul Arnott, the chair of Acorn Press, which published the book, said he believed Sophie Newton’s work was ‘one of the great untold stories of Australian mission history.’
www.acornpress.net.au
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