Miss Ellis's MissionSmith, Mary P. Wells (Mary Prudence Wells)
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Miss Ellis's Mission
Smith, Mary P. Wells (Mary Prudence Wells)
Ellis, Sarah, 1835-1885; Home missions -- United States -- Unitarian Church
Your article in "Unity," February 16, on "A Blessing on the Day,"
pleased me very much.... We haven't quite the right book yet, and
with you I say, "about twelve verses from the Bible well knitted
around some central thought," as we principally want to become
acquainted with the Bible as the "Book of man." Think something
more like "Daily Praise and Prayer," with different Scripture
selections, perhaps, and omitting most of the prayers. I would only
have a prayer to lead to a prayer of one's own,--that is, to
inspire one to pray in their own words. Have often thought I should
like to compile a book of "Daily Worship" from the Scriptures, our
Hymn Books, "Daily Praise and Prayer," "Day unto Day," "Helps to
Devout Living," and the "Responsive Service," and now, from "Daily
Strength for Daily Needs," "Aspirations of the World," and
"Spiritual Life" in the "Register," but principally Scripture
selections.... "Daily Praise and Prayer" is doing much good in a
very troublesome family of one of my correspondents. I remembered
to have sent the lady "Wrestling and Blessing," and wrote a short
time since to call her attention to the "Inherited Burden," asking
if she still had the tract. This morning received a reply, in which
she wrote, "Yes! I still have 'Wrestling and Blessing,' for it did
me so much good when I first read it that I felt as if I could not
part with it." Many, many homes need "A Blessing on the Day" to
create the true feeling.
To Miss Holmes, of the Davenport, Iowa, Post Office Mission, Miss Ellis
wrote:--
August 20, 1884.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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