This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...helped in no small measure to rehabilitate the scattered church, for she daily, in all modesty, bore testimony to the truth for which her husband was cruelly suffering, at the same time sending him messages to brace his courage, and enable him to bear up bravely until the day of justice should come. Some time ago a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...helped in no small measure to rehabilitate the scattered church, for she daily, in all modesty, bore testimony to the truth for which her husband was cruelly suffering, at the same time sending him messages to brace his courage, and enable him to bear up bravely until the day of justice should come. Some time ago a native pastor came in to say that a Christian woman was in great trouble. Her husband was opposed to her being a Christian, and refused to let her go any longer to service. With much self-denial she had already saved enough money to buy a New Testament, and, being more than usually intelligent, had succeeded in learning to spell her way through portions of her precious book. One day her husband came in unexpectedly from the fields and found her reading, which greatly exasperated him; and who shall say that jealousy of her superiority had nothing to do with his excitement! He seized the book from her resisting hands and, laying hold of the wood-chopper, hacked it over and over again, turning it into a very ragged specimen of literature. The poor woman managed to recover her mangled treasure and daily succeeded, with many struggles, in spelling her way down a page of its contents. Now, the pastor was desirous of comforting her heart with a good copy. Would we be willing to make her a present of one? To this a ready response was given, on condition that the chopped Bible be brought in exchange. It is with us still. So are both husband and wife, who are now living happily together in the Christian faith. In a remote mountain village, situated in the gorge through which the head waters of the " Smaller Fount " of the North River rush over their rocky bed, lives an elderly woman. She is blind and poor--was blind for many years before the eyes...
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