This Is My Beloved

Jewish Christian Lady Evangelist. Combinations of these words can cause a fuss. A little over a century ago, even more so. Back then, crowds of thousands of women and men, of all classes, in cities, towns and villages across Australia, New Zealand, North America and Britain, ocked to hear Emilia Baeyertz tell her story and exhort them to follow Jesus the Messiah.For decades, a ticket to hear Mrs Baeyertz was one of the hottest going. Yet, Emilia has been largely forgotten, even among those many whose spiritual ancestors found new lives through her message.We have no sound recording yet we do have her voice. She published her own lectures and biography. Everywhere she spoke, the newspapers recorded what she had to say and how her audiences responded. Drawing from some of those records, and from what we have had to imagine, we present for you Emilia's remarkable true story of romance, tragedy and hope as an historical novel.