Trials and Triumphs of Faith

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ry back to their emigration from Europe; but being so far removed from European environ

from his mother's side he inherited a small portion of Turkish blood. Father's childhood days were spent near some of the Revolutionary battle-fields, where he played with cannon balls that had been used during tha

io near the Pennsylvania

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s great-grandfather and his cousin came over from Ireland and landed in New York, they heard a parrot talking. It said, "A beggar and a clodhopper; a beggar and a clodhopper." The

name of Margret Potter. Mother's stepmother took her drams, had dances, etc.; but Mother was spiritually inclined. In her eighteenth year while attending a Methodist meeting, she was convicted

re, developed without human encouragement; she got help from no one but God. Her older sister said to her one day, "Rebecca, our dear mother died a Universalist; are you going to forsake her faith?" Mother a

-eight sons and four daughters. Two died before the last two were born

im like Jeremiah of old. God chose him for the ministry, and he died triumphant in the faith. He discerned the one body, the chur

try. Out of this family of twelve children, God chose three for the ministry: one

ch was sold for town lots. My parents remained in Iowa until I was a year old, and then moved to Illinois, where they remained for two years. When I was three years old,