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Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray is unavailable, but you can change that!

Robert Jaffray was a missionary statesman of the early 20th century who turned his back on wealth and power to serve in China. He helped open French Indochina to The Christian and Missionary Alliance, an evangelical Protestant denomination that began as two separate organizations to promote a higher Christian life and to mobilize Christians in the work of foreign missionary efforts. Jaffray...

to be held down in that manner. A lesser man might have given up the fight. Everyone was waiting for him back in the homeland. Wealth, comfort, ease—all were his if he would agree to return to Canada and settle down. Had he done so, not a voice could have been raised against him, for he was a sick man. Common sense said that he did not belong in China. But he was a fighter, so he stayed on and got the work done. How he got it done was of little consequence. For all his physical handicaps and his
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