. 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. er was giving birth to numerous manufac-turing enterprises, offered greater opportunities. A brother and asister had already settled there, and to that place the young coupleremoved in the spring of 1851, and with such capital as he couldcommand James Nind engaged in the hardware business. The diaries which have been preserved of the first year of themarried life o
. 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. er was giving birth to numerous manufac-turing enterprises, offered greater opportunities. A brother and asister had already settled there, and to that place the young coupleremoved in the spring of 1851, and with such capital as he couldcommand James Nind engaged in the hardware business. The diaries which have been preserved of the first year of themarried life of Mary C. Nind developed that she was homesick,but homesick only for opportunities. Orangeville did not afford theopportunities for her activities in religious work which she hadenjoyed during all her girlhood. Apparently the chief expressionof her desire to do something for the uplifting of men and womenin the community in which she had become a resident found a ventin her warm advocacy of her temperance principles. Her fatherand her elder brother had early allied themselves with the cause ofteetotalism in England, where total abstinence principles were littlepracticed and little taught. Naturally Mary imbibed much of their. JAMES G. and MARY C. NIND Plus picture is reproduced from an old daf^uerreotype made soon after tlie marriage ofMr. and Mrs. Nind and is tke earliest kno^vn picture of Mary C. Nind Early Married Life 13 devotion to this cause. When, however, the new home was made inSt. Charles, which was then a growing and promising manufactur-ing city in the center of a rich farming country, and which had apopulation of about three thousand, wider opportunity was given forthe exercise of her religious and philanthropic activities, James and his wife had no sooner removed to St. Charles than theypromptly allied themselves with the Congregational church, of whichboth he and his wife were members until a later date. James was active in church work. He was the s
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