Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries

China Inland Mission Overseas Missionary Fellowship
Moody Press Chicago

Copyright ©, 1957, by The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago Reprinted, 1973 Printed in the United States of America


Note: Most of the Scripture quotations have been taken from the American Standard Version.

Well, said mother, setting down a cup she had just wiped, and picking up another, the older I get, and the older my children get, the more I realize how little right a person has even to her own children. By the time they get—well—into high school they aren't yours any more.
But, Mother, I protested, dropping a dripping dishcloth into the dishpan and looking at her in amazement, of course we are yours! Whose else would we be?
There was silence for a moment. Then, You—you belong to yourselves, she said quietly.