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Mabel Williamson
Best known for a small but influential book on sacrifice and service, this American missionary writer drew on years in China to speak with unusual honesty, warmth, and conviction.
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Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries
by Mabel Williamson
About the author
Mabel Williamson was an American missionary to China and a writer whose work grew directly out of her life in Christian service. She served with the China Inland Mission, later known as the Overseas Missionary Fellowship, and became best known for Have We No Rights?, a book that has remained widely read in missionary and devotional circles.
Born in 1907 and later active in China from the 1930s, Williamson wrote in a plain, direct style that made demanding spiritual ideas feel personal and practical. Her best-known book reflects on comfort, self-denial, and the cost of serving others, and it continues to be circulated through projects like Project Gutenberg.
Although she is remembered mainly for one classic title, her lasting appeal comes from the clarity and sincerity of her voice. She wrote as someone who had lived the questions she was asking, which gives her work a steady, thoughtful force even today.