A Christian Book Review
By Jere Stansel

Mimosa, by Amy Carmichael

A friend gave me a little book for Christmas, Mimosa by Amy Carmichael, and I would like to recommend it especially to the women in the church. It’s an easy read, some 150 pages with brief chapters, three to five pages each. Mimosa is a young Hindu girl who spends only one afternoon with missionaries in a Christian school in India. Without owning a Bible or even knowing how to read, Mimosa is nevertheless supernaturally changed by that one afternoon’s engagement. The book chronicles Mimosa’s love for an almost-nameless God, as she follows Him, with no Christian support, through trials, temptations, and hardships in a rigid, cruel caste system in India. Mimosa is a spell-binding story of the “Gardener who had not forgotten His little plants.”

Against the backdrop of Mimosa’s captivating story is the beauty and delicacy of the storyteller’s diction and style. The author, Amy Carmichael, is of Irish descent but spent most of her adult life (from 1895 to her death in 1951) as a Presbyterian missionary in India. The story is universal in its appeal and will give new wings to your faith and certainly heighten your trust in God’s care of His children.