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

Author: Mabel Williamson

Release Date: February 6, 2008 [EBook #24528]

Language: English

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A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries

Have We No Rights?

Mabel Williamson

China Inland Mission
Overseas Missionary Fellowship

Moody Press
Chicago

Copyright (C), 1957, by
THE MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE
OF CHICAGO

Reprinted, 1973

_Printed in the United States of America_

_Contents_

CHAPTER PAGE

1. Rights 7

2. The Right to What I Consider a Normal Standard of Living 11

3. The Right to the Ordinary Safeguards of Good Health 23

4. The Right to Regulate My Private Affairs As I Wish 33

5. The Right to Privacy 39

6. The Right to My Own Time 47

7. The Right to a Normal Romance, If Any 55

8. The Right to a Normal Home Life 67

9. The Right to Live With the People of My Choice 81

10. The Right to Feel Superior 91

11. The Right to Run Things 103

12. He Had No Rights 125

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

CHAPTER 1

_Rights_

"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 dripp