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From the author's introduction:
My first thought was to prepare some memorial notes of my wife to be preserved in manuscript form, interspersed with such pictures as were available, for the comfort of our children and me. But as I thought upon the matter, it occurred to me that there are many friends besides the family who would desire a copy of our words and compilations regarding one who was well known and much loved by our people. And so I have written and prepared with this larger purpose in mind. However, it has seemed to me that the work would lose its principal value if we gave way to generalization. Hence, I have kept to the intimate style which would have been necessary had the work remained but a family possession.
It is not my thought that our life together was entirely exceptional. Rather, I think the glory of it is that it represents millions of just such unions throughout the Christian world. But these Christian marriages and Christian homes, being the usual, have not received the publicity that have come to those where there were misunderstandings, misery, and divorce. And so the impression has gone out that there are few if any happy marriages and successful homes.
Our life together was not dreamy and fairylike. It was a life of labor and rest, of sorrow and joy, of planning to be and do good, of necessity in the goods of this world, and devotion to God and the work of His kingdom. I have not yielded to the tendency to glorify, even now when our day together is ended. Rather the desire is to tell a straight story and leave to God and the future the work of glorifying. And yet, I have hope that the going forth of this little book will prove a blessing, and serve in some measure to extend the day of usefulness of her whose life made the book possible.
The Table of Contents are as follows:
IN EXPLANATION
MY WIFE
MY WIFE'S PERSONAL RELIGIOUS LIFE
A MOTHER AND A NEIGHBOR
IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
LAST SICKNESS AND DEATH
TRIBUTES
DR. CORLETT'S EDITORIAL IN THE HERALD OF HOLINESS, FEBRUARY 24, 1940:
THE HOME GOING OF MRS. J. B. CHAPMAN
FUNERAL SERVICES
A PRECIOUS SAINT OF GOD
OBITUARY
My first thought was to prepare some memorial notes of my wife to be preserved in manuscript form, interspersed with such pictures as were available, for the comfort of our children and me. But as I thought upon the matter, it occurred to me that there are many friends besides the family who would desire a copy of our words and compilations regarding one who was well known and much loved by our people. And so I have written and prepared with this larger purpose in mind. However, it has seemed to me that the work would lose its principal value if we gave way to generalization. Hence, I have kept to the intimate style which would have been necessary had the work remained but a family possession.
It is not my thought that our life together was entirely exceptional. Rather, I think the glory of it is that it represents millions of just such unions throughout the Christian world. But these Christian marriages and Christian homes, being the usual, have not received the publicity that have come to those where there were misunderstandings, misery, and divorce. And so the impression has gone out that there are few if any happy marriages and successful homes.
Our life together was not dreamy and fairylike. It was a life of labor and rest, of sorrow and joy, of planning to be and do good, of necessity in the goods of this world, and devotion to God and the work of His kingdom. I have not yielded to the tendency to glorify, even now when our day together is ended. Rather the desire is to tell a straight story and leave to God and the future the work of glorifying. And yet, I have hope that the going forth of this little book will prove a blessing, and serve in some measure to extend the day of usefulness of her whose life made the book possible.
The Table of Contents are as follows:
IN EXPLANATION
MY WIFE
MY WIFE'S PERSONAL RELIGIOUS LIFE
A MOTHER AND A NEIGHBOR
IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
LAST SICKNESS AND DEATH
TRIBUTES
DR. CORLETT'S EDITORIAL IN THE HERALD OF HOLINESS, FEBRUARY 24, 1940:
THE HOME GOING OF MRS. J. B. CHAPMAN
FUNERAL SERVICES
A PRECIOUS SAINT OF GOD
OBITUARY
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940151364195 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Jawbone Digital |
| Publication date: | 06/17/2015 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 416 KB |
About the Author
About the author (from Wikipedia):
James Blaine Chapman (1884-1947) was a minister, president of Arkansas Holiness and Peniel Colleges, editor of the Herald of Holiness, and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.
Chapman was born 1884 in Yale, Illinois, the second son and fifth child in his family. The family moved to Oklahoma when he was fourteen years old, where he was converted to Christianity in 1899. Chapman's first academic instructor was his wife, a schoolteacher. When he took a pastorate at Vilonia, Arkansas in 1908, he enrolled at the Arkansas Holiness College there at age 24. After graduating in 1910, he left to pursue further study at Texas Holiness University in Peniel, Texas under president Roy T. Williams, where he received his bachelor's of divinity degree in 1913. Peniel College later awarded him an honorary doctor of divinity degree, in 1918, and Pasadena College did the same in 1927.
He began to preach at the age of sixteen, uniting with the World's Faith Missionary Association of Shenandoah, Iowa and then the Texas Holiness Association before forming his own Independent Holiness Church. He married Maud Frederick in 1903, at the church's first annual convention. His first pastorate was a church in Durant, in Indian Territory, which he organized in 1905 and would become part of the Holiness Church of Christ, but he also became pastor of a church in Pilot Point, Texas in 1907, for which he left Durant in 1908. That same year the Holiness Church of Christ joined the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, and Chapman moved again, this time to a pastorate at Vilonia, Arkansas. He left in 1911 after graduating from Arkansas Holiness College to pursue further education at Texas Holiness University. His only other pastorate would later be at Bethany, Oklahoma from 1918-1919.
After enrolling at Peniel in 1910, Chapman instead became president of the Arkansas Holiness College, but returned to Peniel University in 1912 to teach there and became dean of the college upon his arrival. After he graduated with his bachelor's of divinity degree in 1913, President Williams resigned and the college named Chapman president until 1918. At the time Chapman took the presidency, Peniel was ranked behind Asbury College and Taylor University as the third-best holiness college in the nation, but it eventually closed in 1920 to lend support to Oklahoma Nazarene College instead. As an educator, Chapman aided the General Boar
James Blaine Chapman (1884-1947) was a minister, president of Arkansas Holiness and Peniel Colleges, editor of the Herald of Holiness, and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.
Chapman was born 1884 in Yale, Illinois, the second son and fifth child in his family. The family moved to Oklahoma when he was fourteen years old, where he was converted to Christianity in 1899. Chapman's first academic instructor was his wife, a schoolteacher. When he took a pastorate at Vilonia, Arkansas in 1908, he enrolled at the Arkansas Holiness College there at age 24. After graduating in 1910, he left to pursue further study at Texas Holiness University in Peniel, Texas under president Roy T. Williams, where he received his bachelor's of divinity degree in 1913. Peniel College later awarded him an honorary doctor of divinity degree, in 1918, and Pasadena College did the same in 1927.
He began to preach at the age of sixteen, uniting with the World's Faith Missionary Association of Shenandoah, Iowa and then the Texas Holiness Association before forming his own Independent Holiness Church. He married Maud Frederick in 1903, at the church's first annual convention. His first pastorate was a church in Durant, in Indian Territory, which he organized in 1905 and would become part of the Holiness Church of Christ, but he also became pastor of a church in Pilot Point, Texas in 1907, for which he left Durant in 1908. That same year the Holiness Church of Christ joined the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, and Chapman moved again, this time to a pastorate at Vilonia, Arkansas. He left in 1911 after graduating from Arkansas Holiness College to pursue further education at Texas Holiness University. His only other pastorate would later be at Bethany, Oklahoma from 1918-1919.
After enrolling at Peniel in 1910, Chapman instead became president of the Arkansas Holiness College, but returned to Peniel University in 1912 to teach there and became dean of the college upon his arrival. After he graduated with his bachelor's of divinity degree in 1913, President Williams resigned and the college named Chapman president until 1918. At the time Chapman took the presidency, Peniel was ranked behind Asbury College and Taylor University as the third-best holiness college in the nation, but it eventually closed in 1920 to lend support to Oklahoma Nazarene College instead. As an educator, Chapman aided the General Boar
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