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From: "WANDA HARBERT" <>
Subject: [CRAWFORD] Fw: Miss Crawford in China
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:31:57 -0700


A forward from another Mail List. I hav no connection to Miss crawford.

Wanda


>
> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:18:21 -0500
> From: Sandi Gorin <>
> Subject: BIOS #8891 THRU 8895 - MOORMAN, McKEE, MARSHALL, McVEIGH, MOORE
> To:
>
> I have no connection and no further information.
> Sandi
>
> 8891 DAVIESS CO - MOORMAN, MARY E - Moorman, Crawford, McKenzie, Teal
>
> #8891: "A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY,
> 1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone. Probably published in 1944 by Messenger Job
> Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 431-432. Used by permission.
> [Daviess] MISS MARY MOORMAN: Miss Mary E. Moorman was the second
missionary
> to go to a foreign country from this Association. She was born near
> Cloverport, Kentucky, in Breckenridge [sic] County, on October 6, 1866.
She
> spent her early life in the town of Cloverport, where she was educated and
> where she taught school for twelve years, always instilling Christian
> principles into her pupils. She was converted at the age of nine and
> afterwards became a member of the Cloverport Baptist Church. Her Bible
> training began in early life, largely by reading the Bible, for many
years,
> to her aged mother who was a student of the Word of God herself. Miss
> Moorman came to Owensboro, Kentucky, in July, 1902, and united immediately
> with the First Baptist Church. She was greatly impressed in her girlhood
by
> reading the letters of Miss Crawford, who was then in the midst of her
> great work in China. After being impressed of her call to mission work for
> a number of years, she finally found her heart's desire, being appointed
as
> a Foreign Missionary to China, in April, 1904. She sailed for China the
> following August, and for thirty-three years gave herself unselfishly to
> this work, being retired in August; 1937. On the mission field she
> performed. both evangelistic work and teaching. It was her joy, Bible in
> hand, to teach the individual or a group of boys the unsearchable riches
of
> the Word of God. Her field of labor for many years was at the Yangchow
> School with Miss McKenzie. She and Miss Teal started the work at South
> Gate, which, in January, 1940, became the Third Baptist Church of
Yangchow.
> For some time, also, she had charge of the Bible Training School at
> Yangchow. In after years many of the young people, whom she had taught and
> won to Christ, called her their "Spiritual Mother." After the outbreak of
> the Chinese-Japanese War in 1937, she, with a number of other
missionaries,
> was ordered to leave China. She reached the United States on October 8,
> 1937, and made her way to Owensboro, Kentucky, where she still resides as
> an emeritus missionary drawing a small support from the Foreign Mission
> Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The First Baptist Church
> supported her in her work in China and still assists her in securing the
> necessities of life. Miss Moorman's heart is still with the Chinese
people,
> with whom she labored for thirty-three years, and nothing would bring a
> greater joy to her heart than to have again the opportunity of ministering
> to them; but her age and physical condition will not permit any more work
> of this type. She gave herself in full service and consecration to the
> Master's cause and has now come home to await her call to receive the
> incorruptible crown from his hands. May her last days be crowned with as
> many joys as the first.
>
>
> Colonel Sandi Gorin
> SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html
> SCKY surname registry sites: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyclinto/reg.html
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyclinto/forms/SCKYreg.html
> Gorin Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/
>
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