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Bible reading, shared books and daily worship frame the childhood recollections in this account of James Gilmour's life. Edited and arranged by Richard Lovett, his diaries, letters and reports place family memories beside records of Christian mission work in China and Mongolia. The opening describes his home at Cathkin near Glasgow, where his mother read religious stories to the children and his father led household worship.
The later correspondence follows the practical work of a small church through individual encounters. Gilmour records visitors arriving from distant places, gives a shoemaker time before the Sunday service and discusses doubts with a church member. These passages also expose tensions between his religious commitments, his wife's illness and concern for his children. For readers studying missionary history, the letters offer a close view of daily church life and the personal judgments that guided his work.
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- Author
- James Gilmour
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 163
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Christianity
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