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Title: 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
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Nind, John Newton, 1854-1921
Subjects: Nind, Mary Clarke, 1825-1905 Methodist Episcopal Church. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Missions
Publisher: Chicago : Published for The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society by J. N. Nind
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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: The year 1885 is gone and its recordis on our hearts and lives and with the Master who knows andweighs all. To me it has been the most eventful year of my life. Per-sonal disability and sickness, financial losses and the greatest loss ofall, my precious husband, your honored and now glorified father.As I review the year and realize how much the Lord has broughtme through, how heavy have been my responsibilities, how arduousmy duties with my own business and the heavy work of the Branch,and how much of love, care and help I have lost, and then realizehow graciously the Lord has helped, prospered, sustained, comfortedand helped me to triumph, yea, to glory in tribulation and thereforeto grow in grace and have an inmost consciousness of the ever-abiding Christ and Comforter, my soul exults and gratefully andhumbly I declare it to be the best and happiest year of my life. Nothappy because of sickness, infirmity, losses and sore bereavementbut happy in the Lord and his gracious dealings.
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THE FIRST WOMEN TO BE ELECTED TO THE GENERAL CONFER-ENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Mary C. NindEHzatett D. Van Kirk Francis E. ^Villar(l Amanda C. R.ippeyAngie F. Newman CHAPTER IX ELECTED TO THE M. E. GENERAL CONFERENCE Early in the year 1887 the question of the admission of womento the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church wastaken up by the ladies of St. Pauls church in Lincoln, Neb., anda definite movement started to secure the election of a woman dele-gate to represent the Nebraska conference at the next session ofthe General Conference. A systematic correspondence was insti-tuted among the Methodist women of the state, and special stresswas laid on the importance of sending women as delegates to thelay electoral conference. When this conference assembled in Lin-coln it was found that about twenty women were among the ac-credited delegates. The night before the conference met, a delega-tion of ladies waited upon Mrs. Angle F. Newman of that city,and request

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