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It's a privilege to be here
today and what a wonderful

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space. What what a great day
it's been to hear from many

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presenters and we we still have
one yet to go.

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In 2016, I completed a Master of
Theological Studies degree in

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Pentecostal studies here at
Tindale, under the supervision

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of Doctor Van Johnson.

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As I engaged in the serious
study of Canadian

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Pentecostalism, I realized that
this was a field of research

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that was largely untapped and
full of potential.

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There were only a handful of
researchers engaged in this

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study. I mean, one of the most
engaged writers is here today.

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Doctor Linda Ambrose.

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With a few exceptions, this
academic academic treatment of

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the subject had generally been
done within only the last decade

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or so.

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I was astounded to find that
some of the basic research

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materials were not publicly
available and still had to be

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harvested from archival sources
by enterprising students. So I

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dug in.

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Where were the where were the
written Pentecostal stories?

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Pentecostals, as I knew from
experience and research, were

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people of story.

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To borrow the words of an old
hymn written by a Wesleyan

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missionary woman, Catherine
Hanky, Pentecostals love to tell

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the story of Jesus and his love.

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While the Pentecostalism of the
past was primarily an oral

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tradition.

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Where testimonies flowed freely,
there surely must have been a

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few Canadian Pentecostals who
wrote their testimonies down.

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Well, this apparent lack of
available primary research

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materials has led me to two
major projects.

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The first, completed in 2021,
was a textbook collection of

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primary source newsletters
written by Canadian Pentecostals

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between 1907 and 1925. This book
was co-authored and Co edited

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with Doctor Martin Middlestadt,
who teaches a course regularly

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here at Tindale, and we called
it Canadian Pentecostal Reader.

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The second project when I'm
currently working on is an

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ambitious enterprise of
collecting and republishing out

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of print Canadian Pentecostal
autobiographies and biographies.

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I have today collected 28 such
works and, having secured

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copyright permission for each of
them, have been working on cover

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design, typesetting, editing and
other publishing work for these

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over the past two years. These
will eventually be available on

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Amazon and are being published
as a series I am calling

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Canadian Pentecostal Library
Classics. It is from these

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books, this series, that I draw
my material from today.

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Pentecostalism was historically
a woman that affected both men

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and women and motivated them to
mission and testimony.

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Women tended to write more, by
my quick count, in the existing

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issues of two early Pentecostal
newsletters, the promise and the

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Apostolic messenger. There are
roughly twice as many published

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testimonies from women as there
are from men.

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A couple of decades later, in
1931, the first year that the

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census of Canada distinguished
between male and female

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adherents of a religion.

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There were slightly more women
than men.

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In pentecostalism.

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Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran,
Mennonite, Presbyterian, and

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United Churches all had more men
than women. Pentecostals were

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the outliers in this respect,
along with the Salvation Army

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and Adventists.

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Women were quick to apply their
calling.

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In the early years of the
Pentecostal movement, many women

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left Canada as missionaries,
assuming leadership of mission

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stations, preaching and teaching
duties, and many other roles

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upon their arrival in a new
region.

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A very small subset of these
women published autobiographical

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accounts.

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In this paper, I've selected
five books authored a

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co-authored by the following
women, Emma Channer.

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Marianne Keller, Ruth Lapeyre,
Amy Semple McPherson, and

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sisters Jean Bolton and Marion
Bolton.

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In preparing these works for
republication, I've read these

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works multiple times and have
noted instances where they had

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something interesting to say
about themselves. So what did

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they say? The simple answer,
spoiler alert, is not much.

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They were focused on the
missionary tasks that God that

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they felt God had called them
to.

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However, each of these works
include brief moments of

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transparency where the women
allow the reader a glimpse of

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their self perceptions and the
nature of their calling.

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Emma Austin Mckendry, chawner.

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Emma Tonners account occurs in a
book co-authored in 1914 with

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her husband Charles after eight
years of ministry in Africa.

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Their book is called.

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Is entitled called to Zululand a
story of God's leading.

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The chanters were from Toronto.
Emma says that she's writing

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this book to try, with my
father's guidance, to tell

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something to his honor and
glory.

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The story of Charles Chawner's
first missionary journey to

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Zululand, the northeastern
section of present day Kwazulu

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Natal in South Africa, is
legendary in Pentecostal

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circles.

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At the introduction of the book
written by a Presbyterian

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minister in Toronto, Stephen S
Craig, he he categorizes it

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well. The story of his talking
about Charles Channer, the story

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of his wanderings and guidance,
reads more like the leadings of

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some of the Old Testament
prophets than any modern tale.

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Charles would receive directions
by way of visions, or inner

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directions through words such as
go to this place or go to that

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place, leading him to places
he'd never even heard of before.

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Even before leaving Canada, he
testifies, my Lord had told me

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that I should find a man between
a column and a post at the

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London, England train station
who would show me a quiet place

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to rest for the night.

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He goes on to say.

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Praise him. This all came to
pass.

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And telling her own side of the
story, Emma speaks of her

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husband's call and subsequent
journey to Zululand, even though

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both of them and their three
children would later join in the

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missionary endeavor.

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Emma had lost her first husband,
Robert Mckendry, while pregnant

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with a daughter, who she named
Roberta. After marrying Charles,

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she had two more children,
Eileen and Austin.

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They came into Pentecostal
experience at the Hebdon

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mission, speaking in tongues,
interpreting tongues, and giving

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and receiving words of prophecy,
often through spontaneous Bible

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verses taken out of context.

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Emma, though reticent at first
to her husband's call, likely in

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light of the thought of losing
her second husband, felt the

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Lord calling her to give up all.

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As her husband was scheduled to
leave for his first journey on a

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Wednesday, she writes Monday
morning, on waking, the word

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strength and glory floated into
my mind. I thanked the Lord for

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his strength and he proved my
strength as at the farewell

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meeting in the evening, he
allowed me to say publicly that

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the Lord was definitely calling,
that I was willing to trust in

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him. She goes on to preface her
story, her husband's story,

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concluding her own with.

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And so on that Wednesday, the
12th of February 1908, my

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husband left all to follow Jesus
to that dark land alone with his

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God.

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Writing in retrospect, she knows
full well the testimony of how

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the Lord had tangibly and
supernaturally directed her

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husband while in Africa and, she
concludes having been left at

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home alone in Canada.

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And we, the children and I, were
cared for by the same loving

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hand that guided and directed
him.

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Her husband returned almost a
year to the day later, and after

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a brief stay in Toronto, the
entire family moved permanently

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00:08:52.821 --> 00:08:56.899
to Zululand. Their son, Austin,
became a renowned missionary to

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Mozambique.

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What does Emma Chawner say about
herself?

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Her words demonstrate that in
parallel with her husband, she

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too trusted the Lord. She too
left all. She too was strong.

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And she too was loved,
definitely called, guided, and

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directed by the loving Hand of
God.

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Marion Weller, whittick Keller.

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Marianne Keller from Parry Sound
ON published a book entitled 20

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Years in Africa, 1913 to 1933,
retrospect and prospect.

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Keller's first husband had died
in 1914, and at the time of

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publication she had been married
for over a decade with her

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second husband. Marianne says
she has written this book for

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God's glory.

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Marion was a school teacher
after receiving the fullness of

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the spirit.

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She left her job to attend a
Pentecostal friendly Bible

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College in New York.

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This course of action was
suggested to her by the same

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minister who prefaced Emma
Chawner's book.

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Stephen S Craig.

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The same Presbyterian pastor.

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Maria describes being questioned
at the US border on her way to

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this New York school.

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Where are you going?

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I replied to Bible school.

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How much money do you have with
you?

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$6, I answered. Who is going to
support you while in school?

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The Lord, was my reply.

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With that, the officials allowed
me to pass, saying if you have

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that kind of faith, we will let
you go.

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This was my first real step of
faith and in all the 20 years in

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Africa, he has never failed me
praise his name forever.

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Marion met her first husband,
Carl Whittick, who was two years

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younger than her, while at Bible
College in Rochester, NY she

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writes that God, by many
infallible proofs, showed us

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that he desired for us for his
service in Africa. We both had

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the call of God upon us.
Emphasis mine.

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Marion describes that her faith
was strengthened when her sister

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Sarah Weller left her good job,
friends home and all personal

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00:11:28.116 --> 00:11:30.630
property to go to India as a
missionary.

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The newlyweds embarked to German
East Africa's present day

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Tanzania in Africa in 1913.

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In less than a year, her husband
Karl and the young missionary

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who lived with them, Clarence,
died suddenly because of bad

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drinking water.

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Marian was also suffering with
the same sickness and despaired

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at the point of death in her own
words.

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When I realized that my husband
had gone.

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I too long to go. I prayed the
Lord to take me to himself.

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Just then, a voice seemed to
whisper to me, thou shall not

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die, but live and declare the
glory of God. Propelled by this

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and other encouragements she
received from the Lord, she

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stayed in Africa and continued
to work. In 1914, war broke out

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and travel was nearly
impossible. Marian recounts,

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captains and officers in the
armies marvel to find a young

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girl in the lonely jungles of
Africa.

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00:12:34.370 --> 00:12:38.596
They wondered what was keeping
me there. Little did they

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realize that mine was a high and
holy sorry, how high and

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00:12:42.897 --> 00:12:47.569
heavenly calling it is. True,
there were dangers of every kind

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00:12:47.569 --> 00:12:52.166
on all sides. Yet somehow it
never dawned on me. The presence

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00:12:52.166 --> 00:12:56.764
of the Lord was so great that I
did not seem to have any fear

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00:12:56.764 --> 00:12:57.580
whatsoever.

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Marianne made her way to Kisumu,
Kenya, where she met up with

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Otto Keller and the two became
engaged. After an adventurous

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trip back to Canada, she
returned to Kenya in 1918 and

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married him.

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She had a holistic view of
ministry, stating teachers,

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evangelists, agriculturalists,
Masons, carpenters and all kinds

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are needed in the work of the
Lord and each one to his or her

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calling.

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Perhaps the most striking
example of this is her own son,

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Philip Weldon Keller, who became
an agriculturalist, missionary,

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00:13:37.397 --> 00:13:41.867
teacher and author of over 20
books, including the well known

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a Shepherd, looks at Psalm 23.

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Marion's most fulfilling work
was her work with African women.

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According to Marian, African
women were treated as beasts of

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burden, doing most of the hard
labour in the communities. They

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were uneducated and knew nothing
about training or disciplining

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children. Although she faced a
great deal of opposition on all

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sides and educating African
women, she found encouragement.

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From the Lord, she writes. I
taught them how to read, how to

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sing, to pray, to take care of
their babies, to treat their

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00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:19.599
husbands well, and best of all,
to get acquainted with Jesus as

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their personal savior.

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According to Marion, when the
Lord saved and cleaned up a few

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of these women, it was enough
advertisement of God's power.

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As a parent, she believed that
God gives parents a great

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responsibility in the care and
training of their children,

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which is a mother's first duty.

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One of her guiding principles,
borrowed from Doctor James Agri,

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was train a man, you train an
individual, train a woman, you

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train a family.

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What does Marion Keller say
about herself?

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Marianne has a high degree of
faith. The Lord will support her

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00:14:59.244 --> 00:15:00.560
as she pursues his will.

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She knows she has the call of
God upon her specifically for

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00:15:05.209 --> 00:15:08.941
service in Africa. At death's
door, she receives divine

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00:15:08.941 --> 00:15:12.940
confidence that she will live
and declare the glory of God.

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00:15:12.940 --> 00:15:17.139
This leaves her with No Fear, a
great sense of the presence of

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God, and serves to reaffirm what
she terms a high and heavenly

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calling. She understands that
her calling as a missionary into

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Africa is unique to her, but
that God will likewise call

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00:15:29.337 --> 00:15:32.070
other uniquely in their spheres
of life.

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As a strong woman of Faith,
Marianne finds it rewarding to

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see African women rise to a
higher ideal in their culture.

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Marian views herself as sure and
confident about her calling as a

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missionary, as a mother and as a
wife.

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00:15:48.420 --> 00:15:51.678
In this confidence, she trains
African women to recognize their

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00:15:51.678 --> 00:15:52.340
calling, too.

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As a result of this training and
what she says is God's power,

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many of these women become
literate and engage members of

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their families and communities.

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Ruth lapeyre.

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Ruth Lapaire from Winnipeg
published a book in 1933

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00:16:12.863 --> 00:16:16.450
entitled Living in the Land of
the White Man's Grave.

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The land she writes about is
Liberia, where at the time of

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00:16:20.661 --> 00:16:24.210
publication she had lived for
seven years as a single woman.

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00:16:25.220 --> 00:16:27.690
She remained unmarried for the
rest of her life.

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Ruth was methodical and steady
in her missionary work.

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00:16:33.210 --> 00:16:36.580
Undaunted by daily challenges
and she writes in a more

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00:16:36.580 --> 00:16:38.480
scientific and detached manner.

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In her introduction, she says
she aims to present the human

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interest side of Liberia native
life.

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And that her hope is that the
book serves as a humble channel

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for the message of the Holy
Spirit and speaking to the

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hearts of those who may not
realize their privileges in

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respect to Christians service.

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Ruth describes normal life as a
missionary in Liberia. Clearly

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00:17:02.555 --> 00:17:06.450
from personal experience, she
describes a few of the commonest

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sorts of things.

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You are rudely awakened at night
by the frightful growl of a

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00:17:13.275 --> 00:17:15.640
leopard a few yards from your
door.

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00:17:16.670 --> 00:17:20.578
Compose yourself, get the rifle,
and see if you can shoot him by

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00:17:20.578 --> 00:17:21.180
moonlight.

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00:17:23.300 --> 00:17:26.515
You are for the first time
discovering that in the soup so

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00:17:26.515 --> 00:17:29.785
kindly offered by your native
hosts, there are the odds and

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00:17:29.785 --> 00:17:30.930
ends of a rat or two.

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00:17:31.820 --> 00:17:34.860
Do not be alarmed, but try to
feel at home.

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00:17:36.060 --> 00:17:40.588
She describes her role as a
missionary. The missionaries

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00:17:40.588 --> 00:17:45.593
watchword is undaunted. Whether
man or woman we need to know a

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00:17:45.593 --> 00:17:49.883
great many things. Many
occasions arise where we must

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00:17:49.883 --> 00:17:54.887
act as an architect, builder,
Carpenter, mother, Nurse, Judge,

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00:17:54.887 --> 00:17:59.813
doctor, teacher, preacher and
undertaker. If you would live a

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00:17:59.813 --> 00:18:03.706
life of variety, I know no
better than that of a

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missionary.

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In Ruth's autobiographical
account, she often refers to the

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term the missionary, as opposed
to speaking in personal

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pronouns.

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However, one can almost
certainly read of the

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experiences of the missionary as
if they refer to Ruth herself.

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00:18:22.701 --> 00:18:26.964
She was comfortable with a gun,
occasionally shooting monkeys

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00:18:26.964 --> 00:18:31.020
for meat for the villagers,
though she never ate that meat

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herself.

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She also used the novelty of her
white skin as a way to establish

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friendly relationships with
people who had never seen white

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skin before.

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00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:43.983
The presence of a missionary
station near a tribal community

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00:18:43.983 --> 00:18:47.047
brought a great sense of honor
to that people. The chiefs of

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these tribes knew that this
meant there would be a school

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and gradual, gradual, positive
improvements in the lives of the

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people in their community.

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Thus Ruth writes.

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There is great rejoicing when
the village people hear that a

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missionary is coming to build a
mission station near them.

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Soon after she arrives, she
chooses a site where she wishes

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to build a station.

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The chief man sends the town men
to clear off the site.

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Ruth was theologically engaged
with her mission, reasoning that

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00:19:21.796 --> 00:19:24.960
if Paul had gone E instead of
West, Canadians may be in

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00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:27.220
spiritual darkness instead of
Africans.

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00:19:28.210 --> 00:19:31.080
If Canada were in spiritual
darkness instead of Africa, she

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00:19:31.080 --> 00:19:33.903
would hope that those in the
east would bring the light of

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00:19:33.903 --> 00:19:34.860
the gospel westward.

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Leaving the comfort of life in
Canada was a necessary decision

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00:19:39.844 --> 00:19:43.973
for Ruth. In one of her most
transparent passages, she speaks

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00:19:43.973 --> 00:19:46.770
about the sacrificial nature of
her work.

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00:19:47.990 --> 00:19:52.001
To Gary, to carry God's message
to the heathen is a privilege. I

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00:19:52.001 --> 00:19:55.520
feel that I owe my Lord a great
debt which I cannot pay.

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It is emphatically no sacrifice
if we are only doing our duty.

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Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or
danger now and then with a

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00:20:05.829 --> 00:20:09.940
forgoing of the common
conveniences and charities of

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life may make us pause and cause
the spirit to waver and the soul

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00:20:15.059 --> 00:20:15.680
to sink.

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00:20:16.900 --> 00:20:19.100
But let this be only for a
moment.

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We are must do our part to carry
the good news to those who wait

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in distant lands.

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What does Ruth Lapeyre say about
herself? In the same way she

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00:20:31.438 --> 00:20:34.546
speaks of her book, she
considers herself a humble

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00:20:34.546 --> 00:20:36.740
channel for the Holy Spirit to
use.

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00:20:37.760 --> 00:20:41.419
Ruth illustrates that she is
independent and comfortable with

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00:20:41.419 --> 00:20:45.196
a gun. Whether to hunt monkeys
or to chase off leopards. She is

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00:20:45.196 --> 00:20:48.915
undaunted by different foods or
customs. She describes herself

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00:20:48.915 --> 00:20:50.450
in her missionary context.

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As a grand list of occupations.

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Ruth acknowledges the novelty
and privilege of her white skin

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and how it has opened doors for
her in various villages. Yet she

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acknowledges occasional
difficulties and such as

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anxiety, sickness, suffering,
danger and the lack of common

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00:21:09.378 --> 00:21:10.130
conveniences.

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But with gratitude, Ruth speaks
of these sacrifices as a

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privilege of serving the God who
has extended forgiveness and

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00:21:19.431 --> 00:21:23.456
salvation to her. Ruth views
herself as a highly capable yet

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00:21:23.456 --> 00:21:25.700
human vessel for the Lord's
work.

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Amy Kennedy, Semple McPherson.

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Amy Semple McPherson was from
Salford, Ontario, and in 1919

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00:21:37.707 --> 00:21:40.760
first published her
autobiography, this is that.

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00:21:41.840 --> 00:21:44.859
Before she became a famed
evangelist and denominational

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00:21:44.859 --> 00:21:45.830
leader in the USA.

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She was a Canadian missionary to
China.

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In the preface, Amy says that
she writes this book because the

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realization that Jesus is coming
soon and that whatever is done

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00:21:59.266 --> 00:22:03.281
must be done quickly has put a
hurry up in my soul to get the

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00:22:03.281 --> 00:22:06.973
message to the greatest number
of people in the shortest

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00:22:06.973 --> 00:22:09.500
possible time by every possible
means.

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More than the other women so far
in this paper, Amy provides a

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much fuller account of her inner
dialogue about the nature of her

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00:22:18.857 --> 00:22:22.183
role and calling. She was
confident and had ready answers

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00:22:22.183 --> 00:22:24.190
for those who might challenge
her.

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She dramatically rehearses her
salvation as she writes of a

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moment of intense prayer. Oht
God. If there be a God, reveal

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00:22:34.384 --> 00:22:35.550
yourself to me.

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She continues. Oh, if every
doubter and professed infidel

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00:22:41.204 --> 00:22:46.318
would just breathe that one
sincere prayer to God, he would

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00:22:46.318 --> 00:22:51.945
reveal himself to them as he did
to me, for he is no respecter of

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00:22:51.945 --> 00:22:53.650
persons. Hallelujah.

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Amy came into Pentecostal
experience listening to her

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00:22:58.403 --> 00:23:01.410
first husband, Pentecostal
evangelist Robert Semple.

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00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:06.707
After their marriage, they went
to Chicago, where Amy

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experienced a miraculous
instantaneous healing of her

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00:23:10.215 --> 00:23:11.060
broken ankle.

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At the same time, Amy describes,
my husband and myself were made

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to realize in a very definite
way that the time had come for

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00:23:21.889 --> 00:23:26.823
us to obey the call to China,
which the spirit had been laying

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00:23:26.823 --> 00:23:30.270
upon his heart more and more for
some time.

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Although she makes it clear it
was her husband's call to China.

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Amy's language demonstrates 2
things. First that she was

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00:23:38.811 --> 00:23:42.588
included in this call, and 2nd
that the Lord had made her

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00:23:42.588 --> 00:23:46.755
realize it was time to obey this
call as well. They returned to

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00:23:46.755 --> 00:23:51.053
Toronto and prepared to leave by
train to St. John, NB where they

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00:23:51.053 --> 00:23:54.570
would leave for London, England
and then on to China.

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Amy's writing is full of hymn
lyrics. These also serve to

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00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:02.870
illustrate her inner dialogue.

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At her marriage, looking to a
future of Christian ministry,

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00:24:07.690 --> 00:24:11.663
she cites the hymn lyrics,
perhaps with dual commitment to

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00:24:11.663 --> 00:24:13.010
Lord and to husband.

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Love. So amazing.

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So divine demands my love, my
life, my all.

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00:24:23.820 --> 00:24:28.614
She recalls leaving Toronto by
train on route to China. Two

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00:24:28.614 --> 00:24:32.690
people singing God be with you
till we meet again.

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00:24:34.320 --> 00:24:38.080
And upon leaving Pentecostal
people in London, England, by

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00:24:38.080 --> 00:24:41.969
boat, she remembers them singing
as she embarked further for

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00:24:41.969 --> 00:24:45.220
China, singing the hymn God will
take care of you.

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00:24:47.120 --> 00:24:51.170
Together, these songs and lyrics
reinforced her calling and her

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00:24:51.170 --> 00:24:54.903
conviction that the Lord would
indeed be with her and with

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00:24:54.903 --> 00:24:55.409
Roberts.

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However, not long after their
arrival in China, Robert

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00:25:00.687 --> 00:25:02.850
contracted malaria and died.

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At his bedside, beside his
lifeless body, she describes.

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Then at that moment when all the
world seemed to be crumbling and

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00:25:12.937 --> 00:25:14.900
slipping from beneath my feet.

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00:25:15.570 --> 00:25:20.274
The comforter, the blessed Holy
Spirit, whom Jesus had sent,

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00:25:20.274 --> 00:25:25.056
made the will of God so sweet,
showed the prepared mansion so

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00:25:25.056 --> 00:25:29.760
real that I showed a glory by
the deathbed of Robert Semple,

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00:25:29.760 --> 00:25:32.999
from whom I had never dreamed of
parting.

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Waves of joy rolled over my
soul, and I was lifted from

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00:25:37.862 --> 00:25:41.962
Earth to heaven, and it seemed
as though I accompanied him

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00:25:41.962 --> 00:25:43.770
right to the pearly gates.

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The Lord gave, and the Lord
taketh away.

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Blessed be the name of the Lord.

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Later on, as she prepared for
her husband's funeral with

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little money remaining, she
prayed for provision.

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00:25:58.630 --> 00:26:03.267
And that afternoon in the mail,
she received a letter from two

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00:26:03.267 --> 00:26:07.904
sisters in Chicago with $60.00
dated a month previous, stating

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00:26:07.904 --> 00:26:12.321
that the Lord had awakened them
in the middle of the night,

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00:26:12.321 --> 00:26:17.032
saying little sister Semple is
in trouble, rise immediately and

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00:26:17.032 --> 00:26:18.210
send her $60.00.

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This further demonstrated her
belief that, yes, the Lord was

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with her.

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Amy returned to the USA and gave
birth to her and Robert's child.

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Naming her Roberta.

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Not long after, she married her
husband, her second husband,

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00:26:37.557 --> 00:26:41.860
Harold McPherson, whose name she
never once mentions in her book.

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00:26:43.570 --> 00:26:47.893
Amy again heard the call of God
of God. Preach the word. Preach

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00:26:47.893 --> 00:26:52.352
the word, will you go, go do the
work. In event of an evangelist,

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preach the word. The time is
short. I am coming soon.

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She resisted this call in part
because her second husband was

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00:27:00.871 --> 00:27:04.896
not of the same mind, nor was he
interested in the Pentecostal

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00:27:04.896 --> 00:27:09.049
experience of the spirit. At the
same time, Amy was hospitalized

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00:27:09.049 --> 00:27:13.138
with symptoms of depression and
physical conditions requiring 2

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surgeries that further climaxed
with acute appendicitis.

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In agony, this led her to a
prayer of oh God, please Take Me

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00:27:23.139 --> 00:27:24.890
Home to be with you.

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Shortly thereafter, on the edge
of consciousness and on the

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brink of death, she heard God
call one more time. Now will you

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00:27:34.107 --> 00:27:34.290
go?

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She responded.

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Yes, Lord.

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I'll go.

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Immediately the pain left and
she was healed of all of her

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physical ailments.

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This experience bolstered Amy's
confidence in her calling and

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00:27:49.788 --> 00:27:53.611
also fueled her rhetoric to
defend her calling despite the

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inconvenient matter of her
gender.

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She writes, ohhh, don't you ever
tell me that a woman cannot be

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00:28:00.800 --> 00:28:04.691
called to preach the gospel. If
any man went through 100th part

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00:28:04.691 --> 00:28:08.338
of the hell on Earth that I
experienced those months when I

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00:28:08.338 --> 00:28:12.290
was out of God's will and work,
they would never say that again.

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00:28:13.740 --> 00:28:17.413
What does Amy Semple say about
Semple McPherson say about

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00:28:17.413 --> 00:28:17.920
herself?

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She had the assurance of her
salvation.

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She felt that Jesus was coming.
Soon, Amy knew she was called by

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God first to missions and then
subsequently to preach the

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00:28:30.694 --> 00:28:35.500
gospel as an evangelist. Through
her her, through her own words,

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00:28:35.500 --> 00:28:39.714
and through words she expressed
in song, she continually

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00:28:39.714 --> 00:28:44.225
rehearsed that God would take
care of her. Through every day

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or all the way. Amy was aware of
the obstacles she faced as a

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woman in a man's world.

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But was ready to admonish any
who opposed her based on her

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gender. She used her life
experiences and spiritual

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experiences to legitimize her
call to others who might

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00:29:02.368 --> 00:29:03.179
question it.

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How we doing for time, OK.

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Gene and Marion Bolton.

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Self effacing missionaries.

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Gene and Marion Bolton from
Regina SK, published he sendeth

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forth two in 1970. These two
biological sisters never

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00:29:29.792 --> 00:29:34.407
married, and they work together
as vocational missionaries for

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several decades.

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00:29:36.310 --> 00:29:40.015
At the time of their book, the
Bolton Sisters had worked for

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00:29:40.015 --> 00:29:43.842
six years in Zimbabwe, six MORE
in Thailand and 1 1/2 years in

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Nicaragua.

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They write this book to the
honor and glory of our Lord and

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00:29:50.064 --> 00:29:54.543
Savior Jesus Christ. They go on
to quote Revelation one, verse 7

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00:29:54.543 --> 00:29:58.678
in full uppercase to demonstrate
that they believe Jesus is

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00:29:58.678 --> 00:30:03.088
coming soon. Behold, he cometh
with clouds, and every eye shall

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00:30:03.088 --> 00:30:03.640
see him.

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Gene and Marianne were self
effacing despite their

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remarkable accomplishments.

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Aside from a brief dedication,
their very first words in this

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book are.

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As we took pens to compile the
work, it was fitting that we

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00:30:19.860 --> 00:30:24.210
should offer an apology for a
memoir of two non entities.

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Just shorten this up a little
bit here. Marion was called to

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00:30:31.055 --> 00:30:34.897
Africa in a vision at age 16 and
over a decade later embarked as

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00:30:34.897 --> 00:30:38.740
a vocational minister missionary
to Africa with her sister Jean.

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00:30:39.860 --> 00:30:44.988
In their book, they describe
miracles such as a miraculous

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healing of Marion's eyesight.

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00:30:48.460 --> 00:30:52.698
They describe Miriam's gift of
visionary premonitions of things

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00:30:52.698 --> 00:30:53.890
that would happen.

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00:30:54.770 --> 00:30:59.513
And they express a great deal of
faith for numerous projects,

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00:30:59.513 --> 00:31:02.420
both in finances and other
provision.

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As missionaries abroad, the
Bolton sisters worked for a

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00:31:07.252 --> 00:31:10.150
department store and
International College, an

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00:31:10.150 --> 00:31:13.787
embassy and engineering firm,
and the United Nations while

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00:31:13.787 --> 00:31:16.870
simultaneously pursuing their
missionary purpose.

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00:31:18.580 --> 00:31:22.612
Marion had a vision of a large
building where classes were

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00:31:22.612 --> 00:31:26.713
being held with forty teachers,
Gene writes. Launching this

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00:31:26.713 --> 00:31:30.814
program would necessitate a
great step of faith. Marion had

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00:31:30.814 --> 00:31:35.188
no doubt regarding the supply of
teachers and students, and the

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00:31:35.188 --> 00:31:39.425
Lord gave to me faith for the
finances. They were soon joined

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00:31:39.425 --> 00:31:43.389
by numerous highly qualified
reinforcements for teachers.

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I'll just read one more quote
before I conclude this this

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section.

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At one point, Marion
transparently broaches the

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subject of marriage.

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She says now, considering the
all important theme of marriage.

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It was at the age of 21 that I
turned this matter completely

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over to God's control, praying
that if it were his will, I

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00:32:06.133 --> 00:32:10.359
should not marry, he would erase
from my mind the contemplation

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of conjugality.

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So what did Gene and Marian
Bolton say about themselves?

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00:32:19.345 --> 00:32:23.001
These resourceful sisters speak
about themselves as non entities

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00:32:23.001 --> 00:32:26.263
and downplay their role in any
success they may have had,

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00:32:26.263 --> 00:32:29.412
attributing it only to the
Lord's work. Through prayer.

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00:32:29.412 --> 00:32:32.899
They expressed faith in God's
healing power and for finances.

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00:32:32.899 --> 00:32:36.386
They write about trust in God's
communication to them through

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Mariano's visions, which led
them to Africa in the first

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00:32:39.592 --> 00:32:39.930
place.

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Varian speaks about turning the
matter of marriage completely

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00:32:43.975 --> 00:32:47.030
over to God's control, which is
the pattern for their lives.

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00:32:47.750 --> 00:32:51.862
In soliciting teachers for their
school, they write or they wrote

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00:32:51.862 --> 00:32:55.414
that God could use anyone,
regardless of rank, colour or

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00:32:55.414 --> 00:32:58.530
education, when that one is
fully yielded to him.

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Thus the reader can assume.

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That this has been their
experience, and they consider

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00:33:04.031 --> 00:33:05.510
themselves fully yielded to God.

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What are we to conclude about
these Canadian Pentecostal

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00:33:10.561 --> 00:33:13.010
missionary women who wrote about
themselves?

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00:33:14.080 --> 00:33:17.473
Curiously, two of these women,
Emma Chawner and Amy Semple

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00:33:17.473 --> 00:33:20.982
McPherson, had first husbands
named Robert, who died shortly

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00:33:20.982 --> 00:33:22.190
after their marriage.

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00:33:23.250 --> 00:33:24.660
While the women were pregnant.

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00:33:26.280 --> 00:33:29.039
Both subsequently named the
daughter Roberta. So I wonder,

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00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:31.752
should we conclude that it is
best not to marry a husband

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00:33:31.752 --> 00:33:32.360
named Robert?

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OK. I just sorry, Robert.

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Yeah, 38 years, you're you're
good.

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Sincerely, these women believed
that Jesus was coming again

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soon.

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And they wrote their accounts to
give God glory and honour and to

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motivate others to Christian
service.

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If we take these women at their
word, we can conclude that God

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calls and empowers women for the
task and privilege.

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Of Christian and vocational
service.

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God continues to call women to
all areas of ministry and

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leadership today.

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May we listen to their voices
acknowledging and celebrating

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their calling.

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We do this for the glory of God,
as Co laborers with Christ until

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he comes again. Thank you.