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My Life in Connaught; With Sketches of Mission Work in the West
My Life in Connaught With Sketches of Mission Work in the West Author:Thomas Armstrong General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Elliot Stock Subjects: Ireland History / Europe / Ireland Religion / Christianity / Presbyterian Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing te... more »xt. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE TO PART II IN publishing these reminiscences of Mr. Armstrong, ' My Life in Connaught,' which were originally written for the Missionary Herald, and cover only the early part of his ministry in the West of Ireland, a period of twenty- two years, while it is not in my power to add to them much that would be interesting, I think they would be incomplete without some reference to the twenty-eight years subsequently spent in what might be considered more strictly mission work. Of his former work I knew something, but I was so intimately associated with the latter that in every respect I write that I do know. It was my dear husband's intention to occupy some of the time of his rest and retirement in writing a fuller and enlarged account of his life in Connaught, which covered a period of fifty years, but God, having called His servant to his eternal rest before his purpose was accomplished, the duty of carrying out his desire has been so impressed upon the heart of one who, during these twenty-eight years, with many short-comings, endeavoured to assist him in his work, that, with much trepidation, she humbly attempts what must be a very imperfect account of the life and labours of one of the most devoted and successful missionaries of the West of Ireland. In reading that part of his life which was written by himself, anyone may notice how little prominence he gives self, how little credit he assumes ; this was truly characteristic. His fellow-townsmen ...« less