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I have met some lovely young brides over the years and been delighted by the heart-felt desire of each one to please her husband. The home and its domestic challenges is an area where many brides long to excel and through which they plan to bless their husband.
Yet the domestic role of a bride is [...]

This is the day that … Catherine Booth died, in 1890.
Catherine Booth (nee Mumford), was born to a coachbuilder in Derbyshire, in 1829. She read the Bible eight times by the age of twelve, but was converted at the age of 15, when the words of a hymn led her to assurance of salvation.
At fourteen [...]

This is the day that …Anthony Ashley-Cooper died in 1885 at the age of 84.
Better known as Lord Shaftesbury, he has been described as “the outstanding Christian layman of the 19th century.”
He was born on 28 April 1801 at 24 Grosvenor Square, London, the oldest son of the sixth earl of Shaftesbury. With strong family [...]

This is the day that … Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was born in New York State, in 1839.
She was the middle of three children born to Josiah and Mary Willard in Churchville.
Being a red-headed tomboy, she preferred to be called “Frank”, but the day came when she outgrew that stage. “Next to being an [...]

This is the day that … Charlotte Elliott died in 1871.
Born in Clapham, England (18 March, 1789), she achieved some fame as the writer of frivolous verse and a portrait artist. But by the age of 30 she was a bed-ridden invalid.
The visit of Swiss evangelist Cesar Malan led her to a knowledge of sins [...]

This is the day that … The Marechale was born, in 1858.
She was the second child of William and Catherine Booth … and she, too, was named Catherine (but usually called Katie).
At the age of 22, she was taken to Paris by her mother and left there with a small group of equally young women [...]

This is the day that … Marcus Whitman was born in Massachusetts, in 1802. (Other sources say Rushville, N.Y.)
After studying medicine for eight years (four in Canada and four in New York), he heard Rev. Samuel Parker plead for missionaries to work on America’s western coast. He travelled to Oregon with Parker and at the [...]

Aussie males have a problem getting the help they need. This is probably true in other cultures as well. It’s the problem of ego and ignorance making people think that to need help makes one ‘helpless’. That thought is not true, and it’s a mental stronghold that needs to be pulled down. So, I’m starting [...]

Just a few days ago the thought crossed my mind that older women probably don’t know how to teach young women anymore. The Bible advocates that older women teach the younger women how to love their husbands, among other things.

“That they (older women) may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, [...]

This is the day that … Miss Mildred Cable, and two sisters, Misses Evangeline and Francesca French, set out from Suchow, China, to cross the Gobi desert! They would push westward through Mongolia, Chinese Turkistan and Siberia.
Four months later, on 12 October, 1926, these three middle-aged women arrived in London. They had travelled over 6000 [...]