. Mary Clarke Nind and her work : her childhood, girlhood, married life, religious experience and activity, together with the story of her labors in behalf of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. way from home, for in those early days there weremany hardships to be encountered and our mother was subject tofrequent attacks of severe headache and also acute tonsilitis. To-gether these women conducted many most successful revival meet-insfs in the Northern and Western states and visited in theirmissionary work most of the states and territories of the Northwes
. Mary Clarke Nind and her work : her childhood, girlhood, married life, religious experience and activity, together with the story of her labors in behalf of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. way from home, for in those early days there weremany hardships to be encountered and our mother was subject tofrequent attacks of severe headache and also acute tonsilitis. To-gether these women conducted many most successful revival meet-insfs in the Northern and Western states and visited in theirmissionary work most of the states and territories of the Northwest. They were always most zealous, not only in their work, buteager to make every cent count for the missionary society, and sothey traveled without Pullman or dining cars, and often sat up agood part of the night in some cold or dingy depot, waiting fortheir trains or traveled in freight or accommodation cars. In theearly seventies there were few wealthy people in the West, andwhile friends were most hospitable and kind, these good womenendured much hardness as good soldiers. Cyclones and railwaywrecks were not infrequent and yet, as mother often wrote in herdiary, Out of all these disasters the Lord has mercifully delivered. LUCY E. PRESCOTT (Vane) MARY CLARKE NIND These pictures were taken about tke time they hegan their lahors together in behalf ofForeign Missions in 1872 Womans Foreign Missionary Society 33 us. Mrs. Prescott was most successful in leading childrens andyoung peoples meetings, and in all their evangelistic efforts theywere made glad by seeing people of all ages and of every conditionin society brought to the foot of the cross, and believers strength-ened and built up in the faith. Over and over again in her diariesand in her letters to her children mother expresses her joy at thesalvation of those for whom she labored in such words as these:No joy like seeing souls saved and the work of God movingforward. How can we rest satisfied with anything less? Verywear
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