. 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. onand endorsement. It made possible also generous provision for theeducation of her children, and enabled her to give more freely ofher time to the cause of foreign missions than otherwise wouldhave been the case. Soon after the death of her father, accompanied by her husband,she sailed for England, returning in June of the same year. Thiswas the first visit of Jam
. 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. onand endorsement. It made possible also generous provision for theeducation of her children, and enabled her to give more freely ofher time to the cause of foreign missions than otherwise wouldhave been the case. Soon after the death of her father, accompanied by her husband,she sailed for England, returning in June of the same year. Thiswas the first visit of James G. and Mary C. Nind to the scenes oftheir childhood since their marriage. The writer recalls that thething which most impressed his father was the apparent growth ofthe drink habit in England in the quarter of a century which hadintervened, and that nothing interested him more than a brochurewritten by Ebenezer Clarke, Jr., on the temperance question, whichhad enjoyed wide circulation in England and was not without itsinfluence upon a question which had grown in importance in thatcountry. In later years it was mothers good fortune to spend manyhappy days with her brothers and sisters in old England. Hw ao3; wI—I2: o>. CHAPTER VII WOMANS FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY April 4, 1870, the western branch of the Womans Missionary-Society was formed with Mrs. Lucy E. Prescott as its correspondingsecretary and Miss Isabella Leonard its assistant correspondingsecretary, and entered upon her work of organizing in Minnesota,During this visit to Minnesota a strong society was organized andMrs. Mary C. Nind was first enlisted in the work. Mrs. Nind hadfrom her childhood been interested in missions and, as alreadystated, had in her early girlhood days desired to give her life to thatwork. When, therefore, this new call to work for women came toher, she was glad and willing to pay her two cents a week andaccompany it with a prayer. She did not at that time see how abusy wife and mother,
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