. The story of Anthony Coombs and his descendants . ionshad been general, as a loyal Free Baptist, and in particular as acorrespondent of Miss Crawfords. These letters had causedmy mother some anxiety, and before her death she spoke of thetime when I should have become a missionary, though my ownmind had not reached that far, even in desire, much less inanticipation. By a combination of circumstances I found myself an inmateof Professor Hayes family in Lewiston, where the atmospherewas such as to foster interest in missions and, in my case, tocause that interest to develop into a desire to joi
. The story of Anthony Coombs and his descendants . ionshad been general, as a loyal Free Baptist, and in particular as acorrespondent of Miss Crawfords. These letters had causedmy mother some anxiety, and before her death she spoke of thetime when I should have become a missionary, though my ownmind had not reached that far, even in desire, much less inanticipation. By a combination of circumstances I found myself an inmateof Professor Hayes family in Lewiston, where the atmospherewas such as to foster interest in missions and, in my case, tocause that interest to develop into a desire to join those alreadyin the foreign field, and by an assurance from dear Mrs. Hayesthat it is the Jesus in you wanting to go, to make me thinkof the possibility of the fulfilment of that desire. Here I attendedhigh school and worked my board, and afterwards taught ina district school near by, where was good opportunity for mis-sionary work, as well as in a night school In Lewiston itself. Then more restlessness and an application for a teachers post 216. Miss Lavina C Coomus. in Montana, tioiu wIrmkc liail conn- an advertisement for ladyteachers fnun tin- ICast. Wliilr this was pending came the callto India from the Wonums Missionary Society, which I acceptedijladly as an honor, for thouti^li had heen an increasingdesiie for tliis work, vet 1 hail flu- thtii prevalent idra that mis-sionaries are of a hi»;her mouUi and less eartldy tyi)e than othermortals, and I (.oiild luvcr he good enough for one, so w hen thecall seemed iministakal)lc I cagcrK accepted if, helieving hewho called me knew the needs of the work and my limitations,and if he thought me lit to go, I was only too glad to do was in 1SS2. Then in 1894 a trip home in a sailing ship,a stav in the dear homelanil of eighteen months, and the voyageback, made a break of two years, and in December, 1895, againI was ready to take hold with new life and a more determinedgrip. Mv work in India has been varied. But wo
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