Wilma Ross Westphal

The story of Harry Moyle Tippett is the story of the leading providences of God in a remarkable life. Born into a family of Cornish miners, Harry was destined for greater things––influencing and molding of the hearts and minds of a generation of young Christians. From his first contact with little group of Seventh-day Adventist women in Butte, Montana, Tippit assumed the position of leadership in the church––leadership that eventually placed him in the influential areas of teaching and editing.Master in the use of English language, Tippett could write a book, edited dictionary, gently upbraid an egotist, or tenderly comforter brokenhearted coed. The book presents HMT is he really was––zestful in the sunlight, philosophical in the shadows, and always a Christian gentlemen, to whom God and his people were of paramount importance.… (plus d'informations)

Mary Lou Pfannenstiel grew up with the strong desire to become a nun. After completing her grade–school years, she left home to attend the Sisters of St. Joseph Academy. She gladly accepted the life and routine at the Academy and look forward to the day when she would take her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and become the bride of Christ.Then changes began to creep into the church, into the Order, into the very way of life that Mary Lou had become accustomed to accepting. Ideals, theories, and counter theories began to bombard the oldest and most conventional spiritual bulwarks of her church.Doubts began to arise in the mind of sister Mary Lou and her sister companions. Perhaps the greatest shock came with the realization that the Pope, the priests, and bishops, along with the mother superiors, who had always been held as above sin, were really fellow human beings, capable of making mistakes and sinning against God the same as the others of the human race.The University to which sister Mary Lou had been sent did not help to allay her doubts and fears. At last she felt she could no longer remain a nun, a sister in the hierarchy of the church.The story unfolds showing Mary Lou's struggle to accept the new way of life and give up old dogmas. Meeting Ed Reilly, himself a Catholic but also having doubts, led to a deep searching of the Bible. It took a step–by–step study of the Bible directed by man fully consecrated to God to show God's way to Mary Lou and Ed Riley whom she married.… (plus d'informations)

The thrill and zest––and hard labor––of pioneer missionary work vibrates throughout Heretic at Large. It is the story of E. Max Trummer and his wife, no IMA, who pushed the front tears of the third angel's message into the highlands of Columbia. Traveling by foot or boat, or more commonly by muleback, Trummer saw the work grow over a span of decades. Sometimes jailed, sometimes beaten by political and religious zealots, he persevered until a strong church program was established. This book is a message of triumphant faith.… (plus d'informations)

Standing beneath the peach tree, they stared at each other a full minute. Mrs. Howard had broken off a branch bigger than any she had ever used before. With a heavy switch poised to strike, she started toward Dee Dee..Dee Dee raised her hand. "Wait," she demanded. "I know it won't do any good to tell you that I don't know what this is all about, but I do want you to know that this, here and now. This is the last whipping I'll ever take from you or anyone else. I – – I'm going to run away. It may not be tonight or next week or even next month. But I will go when you least expected."Go ahead and beat me – – beat me all you want. You never love me or wanted me anyway. All you took before was so you'd get the money that came with me…' Dear, precious' Aunt Hetty told me that a long time ago. So – – now you know what I know!"Dee Dee Barker's parents had died during the great influenza epidemic. The relatives had sold the family ranch and divided the children among the aunts and uncles. Four-year-old Dee Dee went from Kansas to a plantation near the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Separated from her sisters and brother, a Yankee in the deepest south, rejected by neighbors and even relatives, the girl struggled to find love and family.… (plus d'informations)