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Article: My pilgrimage in mission.
- Article from:
- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
- Author:
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Born in 1922 in Charlottesville, Virginia, I was called to God's service even before I knew the Gospel. At the age of fourteen, because of my father being ill, I stayed out of school for a year and worked on the farm to support my three younger brothers and two sisters. During long hours alone I began, secretly, to read a pocket New Testament. It frightened me so much that I purposed to devote my life to God in hope of escaping eternal death.
I was so shy, however, that I mentioned my soul's awakening to no one. My family never guessed that I was praying continually while alone. My parents led me to join their local Presbyterian church at age fifteen, but nothing ...