...trained by an acquaintance with the language of Martin Luther as well as with the English, and most of all by a pious home teaching, for a career of unpretending...preacher of the United Brethren, and with the great Otterbein, the intimate friend of Bishop Asbury, was one of the founders of that Society. At the time...

...spoke of her with deep feeling and grateful affection. He said, with his eyes' suffused with tears, "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." Before Abraham was eight years old, the family moved to Spencer county, Indiana. This change, from...

...spoke of her with deep feeling and grateful affection. He said, with his eyes suffused with tears, " All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." Before Abraham was eight years old, the family moved to Spencer county, Indiana. This change, from...

...dust, and had climbed to life again in forest flowers, he said to a friend, with tears in his eyes: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory ! " Here was the home and here were its occupants, all humble, all miserably...

...of her with deep feeling and grateful affection, lIe said, with his eyes suffused with tears, "AJl that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." Before Abraham was eight years old, the family moved to Spencer county, Indiana. This change, from...

...was moulded by a noble, Christian mother. He said of her, after her death, with tears in his eyes, " All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." He early became a reader, devouring every book he could find. When 21 years old he engaged in flat...

...where three years later his mother died, the mother of whom in after years, with tears in his eyes, he said : " All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." Her grave lies, unmarked, near the village of Gentry ville, Spencer county, Indiana; but the first...

...After he had acquired great fame, while in conversation with a friend he said, with tears in his eyes, "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." It has been said that the foregoing remark was made concerning his step-mother, but that is not very...

...be presumption to say. We know his own words, uttered with a quivering voice and a tearful eye — "All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory"; and we err not in saying that it is her shadow, as well as his, that...

...dust, and had climbed to life again in forest flowers, he said to a friend, with tears in his eyes: 'All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory!'" She was five feet, five inches high, a slender, pale, sad and sensitive...