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- From the book "Fifty Years of Mission Life in South Africa by Rev. John Edwards
Page 191 "In this state of affliction it pleased the Lord to permit our second son, William Edward, aged twenty-four years, to be taken from us. My son was drowned while crossing the Tarka River on horseback.His body was sought for 14 days without success and on the 15th, the current having removed the sand under which he was buried, hisremains were discovered floating down the Big Fish River, miles below where he drowned. His body was recovered, and through the kindness of Messrs. TROLLIP, of Dagga Boer's Nek, was interred in their cemetery
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On Tuesday morning Brother Green, who had meantime provided himself with another horse, was about to return home, taking with him his daughter " Libbie," who was not converted to God. The young lady was in sad bereavement, and was disposed to complain of God s dealings with her. She was within a few days of being married, a year before, to the son of Hev. John Edwards, one of our old South African Missionaries, but the young man, in crossing Fish Eiver, on his way to the home of his bride, was drowned. I said to Brother Green, "Don t take your daughter away from our meetings. Just leave her here to be converted, and go ye and bring Sister Green and your daughter Hannah, and let them all share the blessings of God at our meetings. There are crowns to be distributed, and the gift of eternal life to be granted to all who will come to God, and I don t see why your family may not as well have their full share of blessing/
Brother Richards seconded my motion by a cordial invitation for Brother and Sister Green to sojourn with me in his house. Brother Green consented at once. The result was, we got two valuable helpers in the persons of Brother and Sister Green ; and during the series of meetings, their daughters were both converted to God ; and, subsequently, their son Arthur, at our Somerset meetings, and their son John, at our Cradock series, were saved. They are very interesting girls, and their brothers give good promise of becoming useful men. [1]
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