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To Light A Candle
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298 pages, Hardcover
First published September 12, 2007
About the author
Welthy Honsinger Fisher
20 booksWelthy Honsinger Fisher began writing under her maiden name, Welthy Honsinger.
Welthy graduated from Syracuse University in 1900. She was teaching at a high school and commuting to voice lessons in New York City when she attended a missionary meeting at Carnegie Hall. She suddenly changed her plans to become an opera singer and instead she sailed for China in 1906 to become the head mistress of the Bao Lin Girls’ School in Nanchang. She explained that “Modern China was coming into being amidst Old China, but it would be different from Modem America or Modern Europe. I wanted only to help my girls be the best they could.” When the school burned to the ground in 1911, Welthy returned to the United States and spoke to 600 groups over the next 15 months, collecting donations to rebuild.
In 1918 Welthy turned Bao Lin School over to her Chinese assistant and went to Europe as a member of the YWCA’s War Work Council. When World War I ended, she traveled, wrote, edited a church magazine, and lectured on her experiences. In 1924 she married the Methodist Bishop of India and Burma. When she was widowed in 1938, Welthy resumed writing, lecturing and traveling – to Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia. She took classes, learning Hindi. In 1947 her travels took her back to India and Gandhi urged her to “come back and be with the villagers who have nothing… if you do not help the villages, you do not help India.”
In 1958 Welthy founded Literacy House in Lucknow, India. World Education saluted her by launching the Welthy Fisher Centennial Celebration at the UN Plaza on her 99th birthday. Welthy received many other tributes including, an honorary M.A. from Syracuse University in 1921 and an honorary Ph.D. in 1965, an honorary Ph.D. from Western College for Women in 1963, the Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding in 1964, the first Nehru Literacy Award in 1968, and the 1970 Humanitarian Award of the Variety Clubs International. In 1980 she received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Delhi University and the Government of India issued a commemorative postage stamp in her honor.
Welthy graduated from Syracuse University in 1900. She was teaching at a high school and commuting to voice lessons in New York City when she attended a missionary meeting at Carnegie Hall. She suddenly changed her plans to become an opera singer and instead she sailed for China in 1906 to become the head mistress of the Bao Lin Girls’ School in Nanchang. She explained that “Modern China was coming into being amidst Old China, but it would be different from Modem America or Modern Europe. I wanted only to help my girls be the best they could.” When the school burned to the ground in 1911, Welthy returned to the United States and spoke to 600 groups over the next 15 months, collecting donations to rebuild.
In 1918 Welthy turned Bao Lin School over to her Chinese assistant and went to Europe as a member of the YWCA’s War Work Council. When World War I ended, she traveled, wrote, edited a church magazine, and lectured on her experiences. In 1924 she married the Methodist Bishop of India and Burma. When she was widowed in 1938, Welthy resumed writing, lecturing and traveling – to Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia. She took classes, learning Hindi. In 1947 her travels took her back to India and Gandhi urged her to “come back and be with the villagers who have nothing… if you do not help the villages, you do not help India.”
In 1958 Welthy founded Literacy House in Lucknow, India. World Education saluted her by launching the Welthy Fisher Centennial Celebration at the UN Plaza on her 99th birthday. Welthy received many other tributes including, an honorary M.A. from Syracuse University in 1921 and an honorary Ph.D. in 1965, an honorary Ph.D. from Western College for Women in 1963, the Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding in 1964, the first Nehru Literacy Award in 1968, and the 1970 Humanitarian Award of the Variety Clubs International. In 1980 she received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Delhi University and the Government of India issued a commemorative postage stamp in her honor.
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June 23, 2023
A very interesting story about a woman I had never heard of before but who was clearly very influential and contributed much to education, especially in India.
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July 31, 2011A true story about a missionary to China in the early 1900s, who later marries a Methodist bishop & serves in India. They become good friends with Gandhi. What impressed upon me was their openness & acceptance of others who were not like them...that they befriended them not just for the sake of converting them, but knowing this person could add value and insight into their lives even if they never got 'saved', which was the point of their 'mission'. They were very controversial for this in the Christian world. I enjoyed this read.
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