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Leonard Woolsey Bacon

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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:III. 1822-1860. RETROSPECTIVE. Recollections of Mrs. Goulrfs ParentsEmity's Forty Children in the Sunday-schoolMarriage to Dr. James B. GouldDeclining HealthAggravations of the VoyageInvignration by Mountain Walks. WHAT sort of youth it was that ripened into such beautiful and fruitful maturity ; under what training those fine qualities were developed which won universal love and admiration in later life ; by what title of spiritual inheritance these qualities were possessed, are questions not in the least difficult or obscure in the case of Mrs. Gould. The story of her parentage and girlhood answers them plainly. Emily Bliss was born in New York May 30, 1822. Her father was Dr. James C. Bliss, an eminent and beloved physician, of whom one who knew him well for fifty years writes : " He was the purest and most noble-minded man I ever knew. Every thought seemed to be governed by an enlightened conscience. I believe that hundreds owed their lives to his unselfish and benevolent care." The same writer, a venerable lady still living, gives her recollections of Emily's mother, Maria Mumford Bliss, which go back to 1816to the days when they were girls together in the old Garden Street Reformed Dutch Church, under the charge of Dr. James Matthews. It was in that year that she became a member of this church. She says of herself: " I was very anxious and very ignorant ; and Dr. Matthews introduced me to Miss Maria Mumford as one of his most efficient helpers. She was just the instructress I needed spiritual, intelligent, well versed in the Scriptures, with a most cheerful and loving spiritand she soon became to me as a dear sister. The next year the Sunday-school movement began. Mrs. Divie Bethune (if I mistake not) was the first to propose it. Miss Mumford an...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Life Worth Living: Memorials of Emily Bliss Gould, of Rome. To get started finding A Life Worth Living: Memorials of Emily Bliss Gould, of Rome, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:III. 1822-1860. RETROSPECTIVE. Recollections of Mrs. Goulrfs ParentsEmity's Forty Children in the Sunday-schoolMarriage to Dr. James B. GouldDeclining HealthAggravations of the VoyageInvignration by Mountain Walks. WHAT sort of youth it was that ripened into such beautiful and fruitful maturity ; under what training those fine qualities were developed which won universal love and admiration in later life ; by what title of spiritual inheritance these qualities were possessed, are questions not in the least difficult or obscure in the case of Mrs. Gould. The story of her parentage and girlhood answers them plainly. Emily Bliss was born in New York May 30, 1822. Her father was Dr. James C. Bliss, an eminent and beloved physician, of whom one who knew him well for fifty years writes : " He was the purest and most noble-minded man I ever knew. Every thought seemed to be governed by an enlightened conscience. I believe that hundreds owed their lives to his unselfish and benevolent care." The same writer, a venerable lady still living, gives her recollections of Emily's mother, Maria Mumford Bliss, which go back to 1816to the days when they were girls together in the old Garden Street Reformed Dutch Church, under the charge of Dr. James Matthews. It was in that year that she became a member of this church. She says of herself: " I was very anxious and very ignorant ; and Dr. Matthews introduced me to Miss Maria Mumford as one of his most efficient helpers. She was just the instructress I needed spiritual, intelligent, well versed in the Scriptures, with a most cheerful and loving spiritand she soon became to me as a dear sister. The next year the Sunday-school movement began. Mrs. Divie Bethune (if I mistake not) was the first to propose it. Miss Mumford an...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Life Worth Living: Memorials of Emily Bliss Gould, of Rome. To get started finding A Life Worth Living: Memorials of Emily Bliss Gould, of Rome, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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