Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
Here is an excerpt from a book about a wonderful Christian lady who founded an orphanage in Egypt.
LILLIAN HUNT TRASHER -
The Great Mother of the Nile (1887-1961)
Lillian was not a preacher, although at one time in her life, she pastored a successful Pentecostal church in the United States. She was a smart businesswoman, and clever. She had to be to feed her charges. Food was cooked twenty-four hours a day to keep all of the children and widows fed.
She was a woman of such courage that it did not matter who you were. When it came time for her to get money to feed her children, you had to cough it up, because she was going to have it. I like that kind of person. They are very exciting to me. From the king on down, when she came in the door angry, they knew to get their pocketbooks ready.
Lillian Trasher knew how to handle people whether they were Americans, Britishers, or Egyptians. She was very bold in her approach. When she could not get any money from America to feed her children, she went to the wealthy Egyptian people.
If she needed something, she would go knock on the door of a rich man who would say, "Come in and have some food with us." She would say, "Not until I get money, I won't. My children are hungry. Give me the money to feed my children. I want to buy a thousand pounds of rice."
People gave her money, because she literally demanded it. After they gave her the money, she would say, "Now I will eat with you."
When the presidents and prime ministers held banquets, Lillian Trasher was always invited. As she was escorted into these formal events, she would come in spreading sunshine, and the whole court would applaud. The master of ceremonies would introduce her this way: "Ladies and gentlemen, the great Lillian Trasher, the Nile mother."
She was more than six feet tall and weighed more than two hundred pounds, and she would enter those formal rooms with all the dignity of a queen, dressed beautifully. She never dressed poor.
Sometimes she would be the only person to receive applause out of all of the dignitaries present at the festivities. Although Lillian Trasher lived with the poor in a little room on campus, she also knew what it meant to go neck and neck and face to face with the millionaires of Egypt.
When I first saw Lillian's operation in Egypt, I asked, "Has anyone ever written a story about you?" When she said, "No," I promised to write a book about her. I was on my way around the world, but when I got back to America, a stack of her monthly letters and all kinds of papers were there to greet me. From these materials, I wrote her story, Lillian Trasher, Nile Mother.
Dr. Lester Sumrall ( The Pioneers Of Faith )
