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A Greatheart of the South

A Greatheart of the South

Poteat, Gordon

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151544965
ISBN13: 9781151544964
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.12 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... will be a time in which I will be able to deepen my spiritual life in a way that I have never been able to before. Most of next week will be spent in my room trying to prepare myself in every way to get the most out of the Kansas City Convention. I feel that it is a great opportunity that has been given me to attend this convention and I feel that this will be a greater Christmas present than any one could give me. I know of a number of students who want to go and are not able, and still as large a number who are able to go, but who could not get into the meetings if they were to go. God has given me this great privilege and has given me so many opportunities of a similar nature and I have not made use of them as I should. I surely want to make use of the one that is ahead of me. One other incident in connection with the work of the Kentucky Union should be recorded. A young woman, Miss Carrie Reaves, a graduate of Winthrop College in South Carolina, who had been active in the South Carolina Volunteer Union, had come to the mountains of Kentucky to teach in a small mission school. It was her thought that such service would best prepare her for work as a missionary in China. With her were two other girls. They did their own housekeeping, bringing water from the spring and sometimes cutting their own firewood. The salary from which all expenses had to be paid was $20.00 a month. John heard that she had come to Kentucky, but he did not know just where she was located. He wrote back to South Carolina for her address and then invited her to come to one of the Kentucky Union conferences. At that meeting she was elected VicePresident of the Union. It was not long thereafter that she was taken ill with typhoid fever. Isolated in the mountains there was...

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