Chapter 114—The Case of Hannah More
The next Sabbath we met with the Orleans church, where my
husband introduced the case of our much-lamented sister, Hannah
More. When Brother Amadon visited us last summer, he stated that
Sister More had been at Battle Creek, and not finding employment
there, had gone to Leelenaw County to find a home with an old friend
who had been a fellow laborer in missionary fields in Central Africa.
My husband and myself felt grieved that this dear servant of Christ
found it necessary to deprive herself of the society of those of like
faith, and we decided to send for her to come and find a home with us.
We wrote inviting her to meet us at our appointment at Wright, and
come home with us. She did not meet us at Wright. I here give her
response to our letter, dated August 29, 1867, which we received at
Battle Creek:
“Brother White: Your kind communication reached me by this
week’s mail. As the mail comes here only once a week, and is to leave
tomorrow, I hasten to reply. We are here in the bush, as it were, and an
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Indian carries the mail Fridays on foot, and returns Tuesdays. I have
consulted Brother Thompson as to the route, and he says my best and
surest way will be to take a boat from here and go to Milwaukee, and
thence to Grand Haven
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“As I spent all my money in coming here, and was invited to have
a home in Brother Thompson’s family, I have been assisting Sister
Thompson in her domestic affairs and sewing, at one dollar and fifty
cents per week of five days each, as they do not wish me to work for
them on Sunday, and I do not work on the Sabbath of the Lord, the only
one the Bible recognizes. They are not at all anxious to have me leave
them, notwithstanding our difference of belief; and he says I may have
a home with them, only I must not make my belief prominent among
his people. He has even invited me to fill his appointments when on his
preaching tour, and I have done so. Sister Thompson needs a governess
for her children, as the influences are so very pernicious outside, and
the schools so vicious that she is not willing to send her dear ones
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