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Corrie Ten BoomCornelia Johanna Arnolda ten Boom, generally known as Corrie ten Boom, (April 15, 1892 – April 15, 1983) was a Dutch, Christian Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II. Ten Boom co-wrote her autobiography, The Hiding Place, which was later made into a movie of the same name. In December, 1967, Ten Boom was honored as one of the Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel. BELOW ARE LINKS OF INTEREST ABOUT CORRIE. Back to Top
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Fanny
Crosby
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| Birth: | Mar. 24, 1820 | |
| Death: | Feb. 12, 1915 |
Queen of American Hymn Writers
Fanny Crosby wrote many hymns in her lifetime! Having written
over 9,000 hymns, she was known as an American hymn writer and poetess.
Although she was blind from the age of six weeks, she wrote more than
three thousand hymn lyrics, including "Jesus Keep Me Near The
Cross", "Blessed Assurance" and "Safe in the Arms of
Jesus." Of course, many
of those have been forgotten today, but a large number remain
favorites of Christians all over the world. She was pronounced blind
by an illness
at the age of 6 weeks.
Crosby was never bitter about her disability. At the age of eight she wrote these verses about her condition:
Oh what a happy soul I am,
Although I cannot see;
I am resolved that in this world
Contented I will be.
How many blessings I enjoy,
That other people don't;
To weep and sigh because I'm blind,
I cannot, and I won't."
She later remarked:
It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.
She also once said, "when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior!"
She composed her poems and hymns entirely in her mind and then dictated them to someone else. She was said to work mentally on as many as twelve hymns at once before dictating them all out.
and she never became bitter. She entered the NY Institute in at the age of fifteen and afterward taught English and history (1847-58). As a pupil and as a teacher, Fanny spent 35 years at the school. I have her book in my library and it is a blessing.
She had published a book of poems in 1844 called The Blind Girl and Other Poems. Fanny gave the Christian world such songs as: A Shelter in the Time of Storm, All the Way My Savior Leads Me, Close to Thee, He Hideth My Soul, I Am Thine O Lord, Jesus Is Calling, My Saviour First of All, Near the Cross, Pass Me Not, Praise Him Praise Him, Redeemed, Rescue the Perishing, Saved by Grace, Saviour More than Life to Me, Speed Away, Take the World but Give Me Jesus, Tell Me the Story of Jesus, 'To God Be the Glory, Will Jesus Find Us Watching--to mention but a few.
One of the favorite songs was The Silver Cord which I love.
Someday the silver cord will break,
and I no more as now shall sing;
but oh, the joy when I shall wake
within the palace of the King!
And I shall see Him face to face,
and tell the story--saved by grace!
Fanny Crosby page at Cyberhymnal Words and MIDI music for over 400 hymns.
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Dale Evans
Dale Evans was born Lucille Wood Smith in Uvalde, Texas, her name was changed in infancy to Frances Octavia Smith. She had a tumultuous early life, eloping at the age of fourteen with her first husband, Thomas F. Fox. She bore one son, Thomas F. Fox, Jr. when she was fifteen. Divorced in 1929 at seventeen, she married August Wayne Johns that same year, a union that lasted until their divorce in 1935. She took the name Dale Evans in the early 1930s to promote her singing career. She then married her accompanist and arranger Robert Dale Butts in 1937. In 1947 she married Roy Rogers. The marriage was his third, her fourth. Together they had two children and were happily married for 51 years. Roy Rogers died in 1998 at the age of 86. Evans herself suffered a heart attack and a stroke, but remained active, hosting her own show, A Date With Dale, on the religiously oriented Trinity Broadcasting Network. She died at her home in California on February 7, 2001, at the age of 88. Dale Evans Memorial
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Ruth the Moabite
THE STORY OF RUTH “Where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. I swear a solemn oath before the Lord your God: Nothing but death shall divide us.”The Biblical Ruth, the great-grandmother to David, was a lovely and virtuous Moabite woman who abandoned her people and her god to accompany Naomi, her mother-in-law, back to Bethlehem after the deaths of their husbands. At the time of the story, the Moabites represented the worst of outsiders to the Jewish congregations. The circumstances of Ruth’s acceptance into this restrictive community afford a plea for the brotherhood of man that is also very applicable to our time.
But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." (Ruth 1:16-17)
When Naomi realized that Ruth couldn't be dissuaded, they returned together to Bethlehem, the old home from which Elimelech had migrated. There she had a rich relative, Boaz, to whom Ruth was eventually married.
Ruth became the mother of Obed, the grandfather of David. Thus Ruth, a Gentile, is among the maternal progenitors of Jesus.
[Easton's Bible Dictionary]
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Mary Mother of Jesus
Mary, Blessed Mother of Jesus.
A good example for all women to follow.
She was devoted to God from her early childhood. History records Mary
staying in the Temple and praying. Later she was chosen to be the most
blessed woman of all. Some of her words are recorded in the Bible.
"My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my
Savior,
for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant.
From now on all generations will call me blessed,
for the mighty one has done great things for me--holy is his
name..."
IN HER OWN WORDS
My soul exalts the Lord,
And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
For he has had regard for the humble state of his bond-slave.
For behold, from this time on all generations will count me blessed.
For the Mighty One had done great things for me; And holy is his name.
And his mercy is upon generation after generation
Toward those who fear him.
He has done mighty deeds with his arm;
He has scattered those who were proud in the thoughts of their heart.
He has brought down rulers from their thrones,
And has exalted those who were humble.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
And sent away the rich empty-handed.
He has given help to Israel his servant,
In remembrance of His mercy,
As he spoke to our fathers,
To Abraham and his offspring forever.
-Mary's Magnificat, New American Standard Bible
--Ruth
A friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose father, Elimelech, had
settled in the land of Moab. On the death of Elimelech and Mahlon, Naomi
came with Ruth, her daughter-in-law, who refused to leave her, to
Bethlehem, the old home from which Elimelech had migrated. There she had
a rich relative, Boaz, to whom Ruth was eventually married. She became
the mother of Obed, the grandfather of David. Thus Ruth, a Gentile, is
among the maternal progenitors of our Lord (Matthew 1:5). The story of
"the gleaner Ruth illustrates the friendly relations between the
good Boaz and his reapers, the Jewish land system, the method of
transferring property from one person to another, the working of the
Mosaic law for the relief of distressed and ruined families; but, above
all, handing down the unselfishness, the brave love, the unshaken
trustfulness of her who, though not of the chosen race, was, like the
Canaanitess Tamar (Genesis 38:29; Matthew 1:3) and the Canaanitess Rahab
(Matthew 1:5), privileged to become the ancestress of David, and so of
`great David's greater Son'" (Ruth 4:18-22).
Ruth The Book of
Woman
Was "taken out of man" (Genesis 2:23), and therefore the man has the preeminence. "The head of the woman is the man;" but yet honour is to be shown to the wife, "as unto the weaker vessel" (1 Corinthians 11:3, 8, 9; 1 Peter 3:7). Several women are mentioned in Scripture as having been endowed with prophetic gifts, as Miriam (Exodus 15:20), Deborah (Judges 4:4, 5), Huldah (2 Kings 22:14), Noadiah (Nehemiah 6:14), Anna (Luke 2:36, 37), and the daughters of Philip the evangelist (Acts 21:8, 9). Women are forbidden to teach publicly (1 Corinthians 14:34, 35; 1 Timothy 2:11, 12). Among the Hebrews it devolved upon women to prepare the meals for the household (Genesis 18:6; 2 Samuel 13:8), to attend to the work of spinning (Exodus 35:26; Proverbs 31:19), and making clothes (1 Samuel 2:19; Proverbs 31:21), to bring water from the well (Genesis 24:15; 1 Samuel 9:11), and to care for the flocks (Genesis 29:6; Exodus 2:16).
The word "woman," as used in Matthew 15:28, John 2:4 and 20:13, 15, implies tenderness and courtesy and not disrespect. Only where revelation is known has woman her due place of honour assigned to her.
Grace, an aged widow, the daughter of Phanuel. She was a "prophetess," like Miriam, Deborah, and Huldah (2 Chronicles 34:22). After seven years of married life her husband died, and during her long widowhood she daily attended the temple services. When she was eighty-four years old, she entered the temple at the moment when the aged Simeon uttered his memorable words of praise and thanks to God that he had fulfilled his ancient promise in sending his Son into the world (Luke 2:36, 37). ANNA
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
-Luke 2: 36-38
Hannah Susanah Wesley Women of the Bible Women Ministry
