"A schoolgirl, the best in the school, became suddenly very ill one night, and was immediately made fully aware that the time had come for her by death to go home. The evening before she sickened, she had put every everything right with God and man, and went to bed that night for the first time with...
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Marie Monsen (1878 - 1962)
Was a Norwegian missionary active in North and Central China between 1901 and 1932. Marie Monsen was born in 1878 in Sandviken, Norway. Monsen started her working life as a graduate teacher and arrived in China on 1 September 1901. She began a three-term, 30-year mission, becoming an important figure in the history of the charismatic renewal in China. While popular with the Chinese, she was nonetheless marginalized by some traditionalists in Norway due to her heterodox Christian beliefs.Monsen figures prominently in the introduction of The Heavenly Man, a true account of the life of Liu Zhenying, a contemporary Chinese Christian better known as Brother Yun. In 1999 Yun asked the congregation of a church in Bergen to prepare a monument representing Monsen's missionary work in Henan, his home province. The monument was completed in 2001.