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Username: easeltine
Post Number: 1562
Registered: 5-2005
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"Until I was well along in my teens, I attended the public schools; but when I was eighteen years old, Mr. Guild sent me to Mr. Moody's school for boys at Mount Hermon, Massachusetts. I had been there but six weeks when, through the personal efforts of my Sunday school teacher, Miss Jessie Ironside, I gave my heart to Christ, and realized a great spiritual change in my life. All desire for worldly pleasures and rewards was taken away, and I threw myself whole-heartedly into Christian service.
...From the time of my conversion, I had a great desire to lead my unconverted young friends into the way of repentance and faith, and to see them take the same definite step I had taken. To this end I prayed and worked day and night. The greatest joy I ever felt was when some of them accepted Christ as their Saviour.
Just about that time, the Student Volunteer Movement was organized at Mr. Moody's school, and I completely absorbed in the subject of foreign missions. My heart was stirred to its depths as I listened to the appeals for consecrated men. At six o'clock in the morning, MR. MOODY PERSONALLY LED LARGE MEETINGS FOR BOYS AND YOUNG MEN WHO FELT THEIR NEED OF THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. ALTHOUGH I ATTENDED THESE MEETING, I DID NOT GAIN THAT FOR WHICH I SOUGHT; BUT LATER, AT A METHODIST CAMP MEETING, FAITH WAS REWARDED, AND MY HEART WAS FILLED AND SATISFIED WITH HIS SACRED PRESENCE."
Fruit From the Jungle by M.D. Wood, Pacific Press Publishing Assn. Mountain View, CA 1919.
M.D. Wood was a missionary to India. Grandma is the cute little girl in the picture on pg. 11. Della Wood Knoernschild married Erich Knoernschild a Missouri Synod Pastor and Missionary to India |