Joseph W. Matin

  • Marie Burgess Brown

    CHOSEN BY GOD

    It was a son the Burgesses had been earnestly praying for--a son who would become a minister of the gospel. But in spite of their prayers a fifth daughter, Marie, was given to them on a blustery October day in 1880.

    At age 10, Marie moved with her family to the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where she was stricken with tuberculosis. Once when she was near death the Lord gave her a vision of a bottomless pit and told her she was going there.

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