CLOTHED WITH STRENGTH:
Women who built the church and
changed the world
By Sarah Allen
10Publishing. 192 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978 1 913 896 539
Clothed With Strength tells four bite-sized stories of four women whose lives overlap during the period of 1720 and 1906.
I’m neither a historian nor a devourer of biographies, yet I found these accounts an inspiration. They each provide an insight into the impact that God-fearing women of the word have on the ‘world’ in which they dwell. Not because they are great in themselves, but because their Great God is at work in and through them.
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