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 Wonderful. Thank you. Father, we thank you that you are a fountain of blessing to us,

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 your people, that you have given us this wonderful promise of the Spirit who bubbles up as streams

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 of living water within us, making existence life itself in knowing you. Thank you too,

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 Lord, that your Holy Spirit has manifested himself in the wonderful and beautiful lives of so many of

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 your people. And we are going to consider one this morning together. So continue to work that good

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 work of your recreation in our lives, that they may be adorned increasingly with the fruits of

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 your Spirit, that they might resemble your Son, Father, in whom is your delight, that we might

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 have lives that are deeply glorifying to you and wonderfully fulfilling to us. We ask it in Jesus'

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 name. Amen. All right. If you could hand these in when you're done, we'll use them again in the future.

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 Well, we're continuing our series on women you should know, but just might possibly not,

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 ones that are a little bit less known. And we are considering this morning Betsy Stockton,

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 we might say indentured servant who sat with queens. Indentured servant who sat with queens.

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 There she is. Betsy Stockton never knew the exact details of her birth.

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 Wherever her year of birth appears in any of the literature or records, there's always a question

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 mark after it. The identity of her father is unknown, as is her mother. She is listed in a census that we

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 have of a mulatto. So most likely, judging from the common experience, her mother was an enslaved woman

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 woman and her father, her mother's owner. One wonders if her mother, her birth mother, was ever given

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 the joy of naming her daughter. As Betsy, her name, B-E-T-S-E-Y, distinctively, as Betsy, was a favorite name

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 among the white woman of the Stockton clan, in whose Princeton home, baby Betsy saw the light of day

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 and her birth mother's face.

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 While just a little girl, mother and daughter were separated. And Betsy was placed in the Philadelphia

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 home of Robert Stockton's daughter, Elizabeth. There is Elizabeth. Elizabeth and her husband,

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 Ashbell Green. Ashbell Green, here is Elizabeth's husband, Ashbell Green was pastor of the Second

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 Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. And one might have thought this a relatively hopeful situation

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 for Betsy. Indeed, later, Betsy would refer to the Ashbell Greens as a, quote, affectionate,

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 indulgent household, even being spoiled. And describe her wards as, quote, reform-minded people

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 who supported the abolition of slavery. And it was true that Ashbell Green was for abolition,

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 indeed played a leading role in drafting the church's position on slavery for the Presbyterian

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 General Assembly that met in 1818, which stated forthrightly, and this would have been in Ashbell

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 Green's prose, okay, we consider the voluntary enslaving of one part of the human race by another

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 as a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature, as utterly inconsistent

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 with the law of God, which requires us to love our neighbors as ourselves. It is manifestly the duty

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 of all Christians to correct the errors of former times, former times, and as speedily as possible

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 to efface this blot on our holy religion and to obtain the complete abolition of slavery

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 throughout Christendom, and if possible, throughout the entire world. Sounds wonderful in principle.

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 And although Green wrote that Betsy Stockton, quote, was never intended to be held as a slave,

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 that was indeed her status, even if her condition held affectionate features.

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 Betsy writes of her master providing an education through tutoring and the use of his enormous private library.

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 So she did have many wonderful, wonderful opportunities. Thus, if this is a warm glow,

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 surely it is still a dark landscape.

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 Sadly, we have, in several intervals of Betsy's life, very little to go on.

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 We can construct an external biography as to the outward shape, but her interior life is often hidden from us

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 by the absence of written remains, as is so typical of many indentured servants.

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 Telling her story is, as one has put it, often feels like trying to read a book with pages torn out.

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 Just get frustrated at what's missing.

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 Or maybe singing, it's like singing a hymn when you forget some of the words, as I often do and increasingly these days.

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 But, for all the gaps, we're going to go ahead and try, because despite all these tantalizing gaps,

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 it really is a wonderful story and well worth telling.

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 When, in 1812, Ashbell Green, again, he had been president of the Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia,

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 in 1812, Ashbell Green was summoned from his Philadelphia pastorate to assume the presidency of Princeton College.

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 There it is.

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 Isn't that a mighty handsome college there?

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 Not much has changed since.

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 It's still equally bucolic, but that's an aside.

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 I'm getting hisses.

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 I'm no.

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 And, indeed, the town of Princeton then and the college became the setting for the next season of Betsy's life,

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 and significantly in several ways.

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 The new president's arrival came at a time of crisis.

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 I knew before I left my pastoral charge that the college was in a most deplorable state, he writes.

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 I went with a resolution to reform it, or fall under the attempt.

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 And by reform, he meant reshape the college into what its pious founders intended it to be, as he writes.

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 Well, that would prove a challenging ambition for the degeneracy of the times, would prove tenacious.

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 To give a sense of the depths of the nadir to which the college had fallen from its founding hopes of being a nursery of piety,

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 let me give a few incidents from the beleaguered president's diaries that he records here in his memoirs.

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 In one act of notable, flagitious impiety, I love that term.

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 What a great term.

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 Flagitious impiety.

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 Mind-boggling against an instinct for what is appropriate.

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 Flagitious.

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 We are told of one student who, under cover of darkness, forced his way through a window in the college prayer hall,

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 and then cut through the leaves of the college Bible to form a cavity in which he inserted a pack of playing cards.

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 That when they opened the Bible to read scripture, a pack of playing cards fell out.

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 Then there was the big cracker incident.

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 The big cracker consisted of a hollow log with two pounds of gunpowder confined in the cavity.

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 This infernal machine, as the president called it, this infernal machine, was set off at the entrance of Nassau Hall.

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 This was the, that's that very lovely building right there.

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 On the Sabbath, which betrayed religion as the true target of this explosion.

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 Well, the discharge cracked walls and broke windows throughout the whole building,

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 hurling a fragment of the log through the door of the, the, the prayer, prayer hall.

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 So, even the president himself came under assault by a liquor animated student rowdy,

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 who aimed a blow at his head with an and iron.

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 Well, such was the bleak and lawless backdrop of a spiritual awakening,

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 which would stir, stir the Princeton campus.

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 Of the 105 students in the college at the time,

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 a mere 12 even professed any religion at all.

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 But the small cohort of disciples, along with the president,

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 had been praying daily for a descent of God's quickening spirit.

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 And when Ashbell Green had come into office,

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 he had instituted, as part of the college curriculum,

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 and thus required of all students, a weekly Bible recitation.

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 That is, every student had to read, reflect upon,

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 and present a synopsis of the content,

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 systematically through every book of the Bible.

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 And it seems that many a student,

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 though they treated it merely as,

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 this discipline is merely an academic exercise,

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 they began in doing so to experience,

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 as they read the Bible,

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 you can read in some of their journals,

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 that the Bible began to read them.

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 And the Holy Spirit, the great matchmaker,

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 was wedding their hearts to the Savior.

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 In this manner, writes the president,

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 the divine influence seemed to descend like a silent dew from heaven.

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 I mean, this is one of these really interesting things

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 when you study revivals in this period.

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 Some of them come through the remarkable and dramatic use of means,

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 preaching, revival preaching,

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 but some of them seem to be all out of connection with many means,

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 or certainly not dramatic means that we would often associate with it.

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 Just the simple, basic exercise of some of the simple disciplines of reading the Bible.

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 And great spiritual things happen.

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 Well, Betsy too, Betsy Stockton,

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 in her campus home,

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 the campus home of the president,

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 she lived in the president, Ashbell Green's home,

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 had been also engaged in this discipline.

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 She picked up the same discipline of reading her Bible systematically.

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 And she heard each day in their family altar,

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 because the servants would have,

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 she was always a part of the family altar with his children.

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 The fervent prayers of the president himself,

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 and indeed for her soul,

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 and the souls of his children.

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 And she too,

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 by the same spirit,

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 had in the joyful words of Green,

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 quote,

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 met with a saving change of heart,

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 in that very same awakening.

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 The minutes of Princeton's first Presbyterian church record that on September 20th,

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 quote,

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 Betsy Stockton,

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 a colored woman living in the family of Reverend Dr. Green,

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 applied for admission to the Lord's table.

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 Well,

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 the elders were satisfied as to the evidence of her experimental acquaintance with religion.

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 You remember from last time we explained that experimental,

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 we would say experiential.

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 This was deeply,

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 a deep reality in her experience.

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 They called it experimental in those days.

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 So upon,

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 there,

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 in the judgment of charity,

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 a credible evidence of experimental religion,

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 she was then baptized,

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 baptized,

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 and received into full communion.

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 Well,

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 right at this time,

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 the Greens freed Betsy from any obligation to remain in their household.

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 So as an indentured servant,

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 basically,

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 you were required to stay as a servant in a household for an express amount of time,

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 and then you would be released or given your freedom.

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 And,

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 and this they did.

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 I should say,

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 this would have been well in advance of the practice at the time in New Jersey.

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 So this was incredibly progressive,

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 even for ministers of the gospel in that day,

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 to just,

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 to,

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 to release her.

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 So she's released,

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 and needs no longer remain in their household as a servant.

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 But,

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 she actually requested,

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 and was given permission to stay on as a paid domestic helper.

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 That way,

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 she was able to continue to have access to what was surely one of the most ample and edifying libraries in the entire country in that day.

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 And in that library,

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 she continued to be tutored by the president himself,

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 and especially by his son,

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 James,

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 who took a diligent and affectionate interest in Betsy's education.

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 Uh,

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 Betsy was very keen to learn,

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 and also attended,

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 uh,

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 a local Sabbath school.

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 Uh,

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 and again,

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 remember,

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 Sabbath school is a school that,

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 that isn't simply devoted to religious instruction.

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 It's devoted to reading,

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 writing,

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 arithmetic,

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 pretty much all instruction,

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 but just meets on a Sabbath day,

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 which would be the only day available for people that,

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 that,

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 that work,

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 children that would work to be able to attend.

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 It's called Sabbath school.

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 And Osborne,

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 uh,

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 a Princeton seminary student who taught,

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 uh,

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 the Sabbath school classes was greatly impressed by Betsy's scholarship.

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 And when she surprisingly asked him for an academic reference,

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 uh,

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 he happily obliged,

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 writing,

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 quote,

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 she has a larger acquaintance with sacred history and the Mosaic institution than almost any ordinary person,

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 old or young I have ever known.

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 Later,

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 he specified what he meant by ordinary person is anyone who is not a minister of the gospel or on a present ordination track.

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 That's,

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 that's a remarkable comment,

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 commendation there.

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 More,

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 more knowledge of the Bible and the Mosaic institutions than anyone he knew.

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 Um,

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 Osborne went on,

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 I recollect a multitude of instances where for my own information,

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 I have questioned her about some fact in biblical history or some minute point of Jewish antiquities and have immediately received a correct answer.

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 Obviously showing the effects of Ashbell Green's ample library in which she spent much time.

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 Um,

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 um,

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 neither was Betsy keeping all this education to herself for she started her own class in town to instruct,

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 instruct black children in the community.

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 Now,

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 perhaps you are wondering for what purpose was Betsy seeking academic recommendations?

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 What's going on here?

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 Well,

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 it seems that in her newfound faith and newly acquired freedom,

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 she was eager to exercise both in no ordinary way.

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 It seems there was blossoming in her heart,

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 a desire to go to Africa as a missionary to carry the saving message of Christ to those who would never hear it at all,

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 unless someone would be willing to bring it to them.

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 Now,

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 overseas missions was just in its first infancy in America.

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 The first to leave for foreign shores were two couples who sailed from Boston to Burma in 1812,

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 uh,

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 among whom,

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 well,

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 Adam Ironman and Judson were one,

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 the subject of an earlier lecture that,

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 that we've given here.

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 Uh,

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 they sailed to Burma in 1812,

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 uh,

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 and there were as yet no opportunities to go to Africa with the nascent American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

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 Okay.

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 Uh,

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 uh,

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 but there was one in the making to go to the remote sandwich islands.

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 The sandwich islands is what we now call Hawaii.

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 Uh,

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 Captain Cook actually named it the sandwich islands after the Earl of Sandwich,

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 uh,

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 after whom the sandwich was named,

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 uh,

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 because he was such an inveterate gambler that he never even wanted a break in his gambling,

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 uh,

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 uh,

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 to eat meals.

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 So his servants would bring him a little slice of beef between two slices of bread.

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 So,

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 uh,

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 that is the,

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 uh,

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 but,

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 but that's extra.

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 That is not part of the notes.

00:19:15.660 --> 00:19:15.900
 Um,

00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:17.160
 uh,

00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:17.539
 uh,

00:19:17.539 --> 00:19:19.319
 back to Hawaii.

00:19:19.420 --> 00:19:19.640
 Okay.

00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:20.119
 Uh,

00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:21.019
 why Hawaii?

00:19:21.299 --> 00:19:21.720
 Uh,

00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:23.500
 you may wonder why Hawaii?

00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:24.779
 Well,

00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:27.779
 that's a story that is quite extraordinary.

00:19:27.779 --> 00:19:32.379
 And one that takes us back here to New Haven and Yale.

00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:32.920
 Uh,

00:19:33.019 --> 00:19:34.240
 it turns out,

00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:36.180
 uh,

00:19:36.259 --> 00:19:42.899
 it turns out that a Hawaiian boy named Obukaya,

00:19:43.019 --> 00:19:43.879
 there he is,

00:19:43.879 --> 00:19:44.700
 uh,

00:19:44.700 --> 00:19:46.019
 Obukaya,

00:19:46.099 --> 00:19:54.680
 who had lost his parents in the internecine tribal wars back in the Hawaiian islands,

00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:55.539
 and,

00:19:55.539 --> 00:19:55.580
 and,

00:19:55.580 --> 00:19:56.039
 and,

00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:58.200
 and fleeing that violence,

00:19:58.380 --> 00:20:00.660
 had seen a ship passing by,

00:20:01.019 --> 00:20:02.200
 swam out,

00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:02.840
 and,

00:20:02.840 --> 00:20:06.820
 and stowed away in this passing ship,

00:20:07.320 --> 00:20:10.039
 and eventually shows up at a port,

00:20:10.259 --> 00:20:10.820
 New Haven,

00:20:11.380 --> 00:20:11.980
 and he,

00:20:12.220 --> 00:20:12.580
 and,

00:20:12.580 --> 00:20:12.680
 and,

00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:12.900
 uh,

00:20:12.900 --> 00:20:13.320
 there,

00:20:13.460 --> 00:20:14.440
 there he shows up,

00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:15.200
 Obukaya,

00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:17.880
 in an ill-fitting sailor suit,

00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.259
 found himself wandering on the Yale campus,

00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:24.000
 and was taken in by students,

00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:24.480
 who,

00:20:24.819 --> 00:20:26.160
 thinking him a curiosity,

00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:30.220
 brought him to Yale president Timothy Dwight,

00:20:30.819 --> 00:20:31.319
 uh,

00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:33.480
 who received him in his,

00:20:33.600 --> 00:20:33.740
 oh,

00:20:35.140 --> 00:20:38.259
 oh,

00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:39.640
 did I forget Timothy Dwight?

00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:42.360
 He's,

00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:42.799
 he's,

00:20:42.860 --> 00:20:43.259
 he's,

00:20:43.259 --> 00:20:43.960
 he's somewhere.

00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:47.000
 You see him all around,

00:20:47.140 --> 00:20:47.340
 I mean,

00:20:47.420 --> 00:20:47.559
 I'm,

00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:47.819
 I'm,

00:20:47.819 --> 00:20:49.700
 I'm sure you all have pictures of him in your home,

00:20:49.700 --> 00:20:50.579
 uh,

00:20:50.579 --> 00:20:51.460
 uh,

00:20:51.460 --> 00:20:52.980
 but,

00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:53.779
 uh,

00:20:53.779 --> 00:20:54.240
 uh,

00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:54.880
 there,

00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:55.380
 uh,

00:20:55.740 --> 00:20:56.000
 there,

00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:57.240
 President Dwight,

00:20:57.600 --> 00:20:58.620
 with President Dwight,

00:20:58.720 --> 00:20:59.299
 Obukaya,

00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:01.640
 learned to read and write English,

00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:04.019
 along with a daily dose of gospel.

00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:04.759
 Uh,

00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:09.000
 I heard of God as often as I lived with this family,

00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:09.940
 uh,

00:21:09.940 --> 00:21:11.259
 writes Obukaya.

00:21:12.120 --> 00:21:12.380
 Well,

00:21:12.420 --> 00:21:13.079
 before long,

00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:14.980
 he had put his trust in Christ,

00:21:14.980 --> 00:21:15.039
 he had put his trust in Christ,

00:21:15.539 --> 00:21:19.960
 and burned with a desire to return to his island people,

00:21:20.139 --> 00:21:22.460
 to bring them the good news of Jesus.

00:21:23.539 --> 00:21:26.519
 And it was Obukaya's Yale students,

00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:27.419
 uh,

00:21:27.639 --> 00:21:28.220
 uh,

00:21:28.220 --> 00:21:28.779
 companions,

00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:36.079
 who conceived of a vision of starting a foreign mission school to equip Obukaya,

00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:37.199
 Obukaya him,

00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:38.539
 and some others like him.

00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:39.539
 There were a couple of other,

00:21:39.539 --> 00:21:40.220
 um,

00:21:40.539 --> 00:21:40.859
 uh,

00:21:40.899 --> 00:21:42.439
 Hawaiian boys,

00:21:42.659 --> 00:21:43.500
 uh,

00:21:43.539 --> 00:21:45.980
 to carry the gospel back to their people.

00:21:46.980 --> 00:21:47.099
 Uh,

00:21:47.099 --> 00:21:48.599
 so this,

00:21:48.980 --> 00:21:49.480
 found this,

00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:51.299
 these are some of the names,

00:21:51.419 --> 00:21:52.919
 and then they have their Hawaiian names,

00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:53.220
 and you,

00:21:53.299 --> 00:21:53.539
 you,

00:21:53.539 --> 00:21:54.539
 you'll see their names.

00:21:54.539 --> 00:21:58.159
 This is from the original little entry book at,

00:21:58.240 --> 00:21:58.440
 uh,

00:21:58.480 --> 00:21:58.859
 at the,

00:21:58.859 --> 00:22:00.180
 the college that was founded,

00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:01.399
 the foreign mission school.

00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:04.480
 And Yale senior Edwin Dwight,

00:22:04.859 --> 00:22:06.440
 a relative of President Dwight,

00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:06.940
 uh,

00:22:06.940 --> 00:22:07.519
 who would,

00:22:07.659 --> 00:22:11.480
 he was the student that first found Obukaya wandering on the campus quad.

00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:16.720
 He became the first principal of this new mission school established in Cornwall,

00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:17.180
 Connecticut,

00:22:17.180 --> 00:22:18.259
 uh,

00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:19.920
 in 1817.

00:22:20.779 --> 00:22:21.059
 Uh,

00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:21.660
 here's the,

00:22:22.380 --> 00:22:23.200
 there's the,

00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:23.559
 uh,

00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:23.799
 there,

00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:24.579
 there was,

00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:24.900
 uh,

00:22:24.940 --> 00:22:26.120
 it's burned down,

00:22:26.299 --> 00:22:27.539
 so we can't see it anymore.

00:22:27.980 --> 00:22:28.480
 Alas,

00:22:28.620 --> 00:22:28.799
 uh,

00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:29.480
 uh,

00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:29.799
 uh,

00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:31.940
 uh,

00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:33.120
 sadly,

00:22:33.660 --> 00:22:34.019
 oh,

00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:35.559
 it's so heart-wrenching.

00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:38.900
 Obukaya gets through his training and is about to go,

00:22:38.900 --> 00:22:42.400
 but he never made it back to his people with the gospel,

00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:44.820
 for he died of typhus,

00:22:45.220 --> 00:22:45.580
 uh,

00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:46.220
 just,

00:22:46.380 --> 00:22:46.480
 uh,

00:22:46.580 --> 00:22:47.680
 just about a year later.

00:22:48.280 --> 00:22:48.720
 Uh,

00:22:48.900 --> 00:22:49.440
 but,

00:22:49.560 --> 00:22:49.980
 but,

00:22:50.300 --> 00:22:57.980
 the torch that he had hoped to carry that had slipped from his dying hand was taken up by the Yale students who held him so dearly,

00:22:58.320 --> 00:22:59.259
 held him so dear.

00:23:00.180 --> 00:23:00.480
 Uh,

00:23:00.580 --> 00:23:01.180
 so,

00:23:01.420 --> 00:23:01.720
 um,

00:23:02.320 --> 00:23:04.759
 there we go.

00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:05.200
 Um,

00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:05.900
 uh,

00:23:05.900 --> 00:23:06.120
 the,

00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:06.420
 uh,

00:23:06.420 --> 00:23:08.080
 the,

00:23:08.080 --> 00:23:08.300
 uh,

00:23:08.299 --> 00:23:17.359
 first installment of two missionary couples set sail for Obukaya's island home on October 23rd,

00:23:17.619 --> 00:23:18.419
 1819.

00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:20.919
 So there's Hiram Bingham,

00:23:21.539 --> 00:23:21.720
 who,

00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:22.079
 again,

00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:24.940
 pretty famous name at Yale,

00:23:25.139 --> 00:23:25.299
 you know,

00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:26.019
 the Binghams,

00:23:26.159 --> 00:23:27.359
 um,

00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:28.259
 and,

00:23:28.339 --> 00:23:28.599
 uh,

00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:29.019
 yeah,

00:23:29.139 --> 00:23:30.139
 and there's Sybil.

00:23:31.139 --> 00:23:32.039
 This is,

00:23:32.500 --> 00:23:33.240
 that's a good one.

00:23:33.379 --> 00:23:33.539
 Uh,

00:23:33.539 --> 00:23:35.339
 that's actually painted by Morse,

00:23:35.339 --> 00:23:36.399
 is in Morse College,

00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:38.240
 who was also a really,

00:23:38.360 --> 00:23:39.759
 a really good artist.

00:23:40.300 --> 00:23:40.519
 Um,

00:23:40.840 --> 00:23:41.259
 so,

00:23:41.360 --> 00:23:41.560
 uh,

00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:42.800
 love that frill.

00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:45.380
 But here's another picture of them that I really like.

00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:45.780
 Isn't that,

00:23:46.300 --> 00:23:47.420
 it's a sweet picture.

00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:48.680
 There they are on the field.

00:23:48.860 --> 00:23:49.220
 Um,

00:23:49.620 --> 00:23:49.980
 the old,

00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:50.320
 uh,

00:23:50.320 --> 00:23:51.019
 daguerra,

00:23:51.280 --> 00:23:51.620
 uh,

00:23:52.080 --> 00:23:52.660
 thing there.

00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:53.040
 So,

00:23:53.140 --> 00:23:53.280
 uh,

00:23:53.400 --> 00:23:53.580
 yeah,

00:23:53.660 --> 00:23:53.780
 so,

00:23:53.780 --> 00:23:54.340
 so they were the,

00:23:54.519 --> 00:23:55.380
 they were the first,

00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:56.080
 uh,

00:23:56.120 --> 00:23:57.460
 Hiram and Sybil Bingham.

00:23:57.460 --> 00:23:57.940
 Uh,

00:23:57.940 --> 00:23:59.660
 and then the other couple that went with them,

00:23:59.660 --> 00:24:00.279
 um,

00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:01.000
 uh,

00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:01.319
 Yalies,

00:24:01.620 --> 00:24:01.819
 uh,

00:24:01.819 --> 00:24:02.100
 also,

00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:02.779
 um,

00:24:03.220 --> 00:24:03.700
 that's,

00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:03.860
 uh,

00:24:03.940 --> 00:24:05.279
 Lucy and,

00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:05.620
 um,

00:24:06.259 --> 00:24:06.779
 and,

00:24:06.860 --> 00:24:07.019
 uh,

00:24:07.140 --> 00:24:07.579
 Thurston.

00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:08.340
 Uh,

00:24:08.340 --> 00:24:08.440
 well,

00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:08.640
 no,

00:24:08.700 --> 00:24:08.799
 no,

00:24:08.840 --> 00:24:08.940
 no,

00:24:08.940 --> 00:24:10.019
 Thurston's their last name.

00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:10.500
 It's,

00:24:10.500 --> 00:24:10.799
 uh,

00:24:10.940 --> 00:24:11.160
 uh,

00:24:11.220 --> 00:24:11.680
 Asa.

00:24:11.860 --> 00:24:12.039
 Yeah.

00:24:12.340 --> 00:24:14.440
 Asa and Lucy Thurston.

00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:15.400
 So,

00:24:15.500 --> 00:24:15.759
 uh,

00:24:16.380 --> 00:24:17.079
 there they go.

00:24:17.460 --> 00:24:19.220
 Look at those wonderful gloves there.

00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:20.220
 Pretty,

00:24:20.360 --> 00:24:21.019
 pretty neat.

00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:23.440
 As we'll see in a moment,

00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:27.319
 those clothes that they left for didn't end up matching the climate.

00:24:27.460 --> 00:24:29.079
 Very well where they were going to show up,

00:24:29.100 --> 00:24:30.440
 but we'll get to that in a moment.

00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:31.039
 Uh,

00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:32.160
 so there they go.

00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:38.440
 That's the first installment to the sandwich islands and God blessed their endeavors opening doors.

00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:39.519
 So many doors,

00:24:39.620 --> 00:24:40.100
 in fact,

00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:42.299
 that they called for reinforcements.

00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:44.360
 We need more missionaries to come.

00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:51.579
 And it was this opportunity to bring the gospel to foreign lands that had prompted Betsy,

00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:52.840
 who heard about this,

00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:55.940
 to suddenly seek out references from her teachers.

00:24:55.940 --> 00:24:56.620
 Uh,

00:24:56.619 --> 00:24:57.399
 and,

00:24:57.479 --> 00:24:57.699
 uh,

00:24:58.179 --> 00:25:00.319
 so we've mentioned Osborne's reference.

00:25:00.479 --> 00:25:01.439
 You heard a little bit of that.

00:25:01.639 --> 00:25:04.039
 Her Sabbath school teachers glowing reference.

00:25:04.239 --> 00:25:04.619
 Well,

00:25:04.719 --> 00:25:08.079
 her other reference came from Ashbell Green.

00:25:08.299 --> 00:25:08.500
 I mean,

00:25:08.539 --> 00:25:12.119
 no shabby reference that the president of Princeton college,

00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:12.859
 uh,

00:25:12.979 --> 00:25:15.399
 and his commendation was without reserve.

00:25:15.659 --> 00:25:16.319
 Quote,

00:25:16.439 --> 00:25:21.639
 few of her age and sex have read more books on religion than she.

00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:23.780
 And he,

00:25:23.780 --> 00:25:23.800
 he,

00:25:23.800 --> 00:25:23.900
 he,

00:25:23.900 --> 00:25:26.380
 he's the president of a universe of a college,

00:25:26.540 --> 00:25:26.680
 you know,

00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:28.140
 so he's around college students.

00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:29.080
 Um,

00:25:29.620 --> 00:25:32.660
 neither can they give a better account of them.

00:25:32.660 --> 00:25:33.759
 So she had,

00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:33.779
 she had,

00:25:33.779 --> 00:25:35.740
 she had assimilated this stuff.

00:25:36.080 --> 00:25:36.720
 Wonderful.

00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:38.440
 Uh,

00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:38.700
 well,

00:25:38.740 --> 00:25:39.600
 as it turned out,

00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:40.220
 uh,

00:25:40.220 --> 00:25:41.120
 there was another,

00:25:41.120 --> 00:25:42.440
 uh,

00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:44.480
 there he is.

00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:46.539
 there was,

00:25:46.620 --> 00:25:47.099
 uh,

00:25:47.099 --> 00:25:47.360
 uh,

00:25:47.380 --> 00:25:47.400
 uh,

00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:47.420
 uh,

00:25:47.420 --> 00:25:50.460
 another missionary candidate from Princeton,

00:25:50.460 --> 00:25:51.180
 uh,

00:25:51.180 --> 00:25:52.200
 Charles Stewart.

00:25:52.380 --> 00:25:53.599
 So there's Charles Stewart.

00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:54.579
 And,

00:25:54.660 --> 00:25:54.860
 uh,

00:25:55.019 --> 00:26:00.779
 he had also been awakened in that same awakening where,

00:26:00.779 --> 00:26:01.539
 uh,

00:26:01.620 --> 00:26:02.160
 Betsy,

00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:02.839
 uh,

00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:03.880
 had been revived,

00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:04.400
 uh,

00:26:04.460 --> 00:26:05.819
 or had closed with Christ.

00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:06.960
 And,

00:26:06.980 --> 00:26:07.319
 uh,

00:26:07.860 --> 00:26:08.480
 uh,

00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:09.700
 with his new bride,

00:26:10.019 --> 00:26:13.779
 he also hoped to answer the call to the Hawaiian missions.

00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:14.880
 Uh,

00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.099
 there he is again with his bride,

00:26:19.099 --> 00:26:19.500
 uh,

00:26:20.620 --> 00:26:22.420
 Harriet was her name.

00:26:22.500 --> 00:26:23.140
 That's Harriet.

00:26:23.140 --> 00:26:25.440
 So Charles and Harriet Stewart.

00:26:26.259 --> 00:26:26.480
 Um,

00:26:27.099 --> 00:26:31.120
 both the Stewart's and Betsy,

00:26:31.120 --> 00:26:31.720
 uh,

00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:38.620
 would have to pay a substantial share of their own expenses to get to the mission field.

00:26:38.980 --> 00:26:44.079
 And one might've thought this a daunting obstacle from,

00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:44.259
 uh,

00:26:44.259 --> 00:26:46.599
 only recently freed indentured servant.

00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:47.439
 Uh,

00:26:47.439 --> 00:26:52.720
 but she had been saving up her wages paid to her in the president's household.

00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:58.859
 And president green supplied all the shortfall to get her to the field.

00:26:58.859 --> 00:26:59.699
 Uh,

00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:07.519
 Betsy was to be specially attached to the Stewart family.

00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:08.900
 Now expecting,

00:27:08.900 --> 00:27:09.519
 uh,

00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:13.400
 she would be ideal help with the baby,

00:27:13.400 --> 00:27:14.000
 but,

00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:17.519
 but president green insisted that she was quote,

00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:23.639
 well qualified for higher employment in a mission than domestic drudgery.

00:27:23.639 --> 00:27:24.519
 Uh,

00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:30.099
 not that some domestic drudgery would not be the lot of all missionaries that show up on the field,

00:27:30.099 --> 00:27:35.160
 but green was keen that Betsy's role not be restricted to such.

00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:37.740
 The contract,

00:27:37.740 --> 00:27:38.300
 uh,

00:27:38.300 --> 00:27:43.620
 signed with the board of foreign missions indicates Betsy's work as quote,

00:27:43.620 --> 00:27:49.840
 the great enterprise of endeavoring to ameliorate the condition of the heathen generally,

00:27:50.620 --> 00:27:56.600
 and especially to bring them to a saving knowledge of the truth that as it is in Jesus.

00:27:56.599 --> 00:28:03.500
 Then there's a strange clause appearing in the contract that Betsy quote,

00:28:03.500 --> 00:28:08.559
 is to be regarded and treated neither as an equal,

00:28:09.339 --> 00:28:11.019
 nor as a servant,

00:28:11.679 --> 00:28:14.939
 but as an humble Christian friend.

00:28:16.179 --> 00:28:17.679
 What did this mean?

00:28:18.539 --> 00:28:25.919
 Did Betsy wonder or have anxiety as to how this would play out among her missionary colleagues?

00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:27.680
 Not as an equal,

00:28:28.320 --> 00:28:31.080
 but not as a servant?

00:28:32.220 --> 00:28:32.560
 Well,

00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:36.740
 she would soon have the opportunity to discover what relations would be like.

00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:38.820
 As November 19th,

00:28:38.820 --> 00:28:40.380
 1822,

00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:43.779
 Betsy Stockton boarded the whaling ship,

00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:44.539
 Thames,

00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:47.740
 docked in New Haven Harbor.

00:28:47.740 --> 00:28:59.319
 She would be the very first American single female missionary to land on foreign shores.

00:28:59.700 --> 00:29:00.759
 Isn't that extraordinary?

00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:06.980
 The very first single American missionary to land on foreign shores.

00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:09.240
 I'm very careful with that language.

00:29:10.019 --> 00:29:10.539
 Technically,

00:29:11.099 --> 00:29:14.000
 not the first to leave for foreign shores,

00:29:14.259 --> 00:29:15.839
 but to land on foreign shores.

00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:16.960
 As it turned out,

00:29:17.019 --> 00:29:18.460
 there was a widow,

00:29:18.779 --> 00:29:19.779
 Mrs. Charlotte White,

00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:21.920
 who just a couple of years earlier,

00:29:22.259 --> 00:29:25.579
 had headed out to Burma with the Baptists as a widow,

00:29:25.579 --> 00:29:29.720
 but she ran into another missionary single man on the boat.

00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:30.740
 And they,

00:29:30.859 --> 00:29:31.259
 yeah,

00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:31.899
 they were,

00:29:32.159 --> 00:29:33.059
 by the time they arrived,

00:29:33.139 --> 00:29:33.740
 they were married.

00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:34.199
 So,

00:29:34.259 --> 00:29:40.619
 so Betsy Stockton is the first single female woman missionary from America to arrive on foreign

00:29:40.619 --> 00:29:42.139
 shores as a missionary.

00:29:42.139 --> 00:29:42.639
 So,

00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:46.039
 just to be precise there in case you hear something different.

00:29:46.220 --> 00:29:47.379
 I'm not confused.

00:29:48.339 --> 00:29:48.899
 So,

00:29:49.699 --> 00:29:50.119
 yeah.

00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:51.000
 Well,

00:29:51.059 --> 00:29:54.679
 as the long voyage to the South Seas commenced,

00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.599
 so did Betsy's journal.

00:29:58.259 --> 00:29:59.000
 It's wonderful.

00:29:59.219 --> 00:30:01.500
 She has a journal for this time.

00:30:03.579 --> 00:30:06.359
 And it commences with this sentence.

00:30:07.479 --> 00:30:15.719
 Here begins the history of things known only to those who have bid the American shores a long adieu.

00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:16.879
 So,

00:30:16.879 --> 00:30:17.139
 here,

00:30:19.139 --> 00:30:19.559
 there,

00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:25.099
 there are a bunch of missionaries parting and leaving from New Haven,

00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:26.299
 New Haven Harbor.

00:30:28.139 --> 00:30:28.700
 So,

00:30:30.019 --> 00:30:32.259
 well,

00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:33.980
 yes,

00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:37.179
 things that begin known only to those who leave for foreign shores.

00:30:37.339 --> 00:30:45.980
 One thing that quickly began and known only to those who leave American shores upon the open seas is stomach distress.

00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:48.179
 For the next entry,

00:30:48.180 --> 00:30:53.140
 the very first day on board reads in her diary,

00:30:53.140 --> 00:30:57.880
 the weather became stormy and the seasickness commenced.

00:30:58.320 --> 00:31:00.880
 Only to be followed the next day with this entry.

00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:06.660
 It blew very hard in the day and in the night increased to a gale.

00:31:06.660 --> 00:31:09.320
 sea sickness increased with it.

00:31:09.320 --> 00:31:11.779
 I myself very sick.

00:31:11.779 --> 00:31:16.440
 When the first first Sabbath on board rolled around,

00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:19.980
 all the missionaries were far too sick to hold service.

00:31:19.980 --> 00:31:22.980
 And I can't help but wonder if Betsy's entry,

00:31:22.980 --> 00:31:25.720
 my soul longed for the courts of the Lord,

00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:29.220
 didn't in part reflect a longing for terra firma.

00:31:29.220 --> 00:31:30.720
 Apparently,

00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:31.480
 the weather,

00:31:31.700 --> 00:31:32.220
 the weather,

00:31:32.220 --> 00:31:33.420
 they were on a whaling ship.

00:31:35.180 --> 00:31:36.640
 It's a period whaling ship,

00:31:36.740 --> 00:31:37.559
 not the Thames,

00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:39.660
 but one very much like it.

00:31:39.660 --> 00:31:41.140
 And apparently,

00:31:41.140 --> 00:31:41.660
 the weather,

00:31:41.660 --> 00:31:42.820
 the weather,

00:31:42.820 --> 00:31:45.100
 the weather really pitched and swayed,

00:31:45.180 --> 00:31:46.140
 making meal,

00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:47.880
 taking meals on board,

00:31:48.360 --> 00:31:50.320
 a remarkable feat.

00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:53.079
 Our table,

00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:53.779
 she writes,

00:31:54.139 --> 00:31:57.299
 our table makes a curious appearance.

00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:00.819
 It is spread over with frames.

00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:03.039
 Every plate,

00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:03.439
 dish,

00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:07.419
 and cup sets in a frame and is so fastened.

00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:09.759
 And even thus,

00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:14.099
 we cannot get a meal without holding on with one hand,

00:32:14.159 --> 00:32:15.059
 I guess to the table,

00:32:15.220 --> 00:32:16.480
 so you can stay in your chair,

00:32:16.879 --> 00:32:20.079
 holding on with one hand and attempting to eat with the other.

00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:21.899
 So it must have been pretty remarkable.

00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:27.179
 There was another observation Betsy made while at table,

00:32:27.939 --> 00:32:32.319
 perhaps attentive to how the phrase from her contract,

00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:36.339
 treated neither as an equal nor as a servant,

00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:37.159
 would play out.

00:32:38.439 --> 00:32:40.000
 They ate at two tables.

00:32:40.899 --> 00:32:41.439
 She writes,

00:32:41.819 --> 00:32:45.079
 there are 11 persons at each table.

00:32:45.679 --> 00:32:46.619
 At the first,

00:32:46.879 --> 00:32:48.759
 the captain and one of the mates,

00:32:48.759 --> 00:32:50.559
 with nine of the missionaries.

00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:51.940
 At the second,

00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:53.240
 two mates,

00:32:53.779 --> 00:32:54.920
 three of the missionaries,

00:32:55.420 --> 00:32:57.339
 and four Hawaiian natives,

00:32:57.660 --> 00:32:58.319
 and myself.

00:32:59.220 --> 00:33:02.839
 The provisions of both tables are alike.

00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:06.019
 In the division of the missionary stores,

00:33:06.740 --> 00:33:08.539
 I always have my share,

00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:14.400
 so that I have indeed a double portion of the good things of this life.

00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:15.400
 For Mr.

00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:15.860
 and Mrs.

00:33:15.860 --> 00:33:20.980
 Stewart give me always a share of theirs.

00:33:22.080 --> 00:33:29.440
 The last apple and orange were cut in three pieces and divided between us.

00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:38.460
 This observation and experience turns out to have been very meaningful to Betsy,

00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:38.940
 who notes,

00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:42.680
 this impression of dividing the last orange and apple,

00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:50.160
 this impression that such little things make on my mind will never be erased.

00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:55.320
 Well, by the end of the voyage,

00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:58.880
 Betsy would refer to the stewards as my best friends.

00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:01.920
 Good for them.

00:34:02.840 --> 00:34:08.139
 Not only was there a united front with food for the missionaries,

00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:14.820
 but also when it came to gospelizing the unsaved sailors who surrounded them

00:34:14.820 --> 00:34:17.680
 by praying and preaching for their conversion.

00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:22.799
 We all retire for 15 minutes every evening,

00:34:23.179 --> 00:34:24.859
 directly after public prayers,

00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:25.659
 to pray for them.

00:34:26.279 --> 00:34:29.179
 Again, all of these are from Betsy's journal here.

00:34:29.799 --> 00:34:30.739
 I say retire.

00:34:31.539 --> 00:34:34.259
 That is, we go to different parts of the ship.

00:34:34.879 --> 00:34:36.379
 Some of us into the riggings,

00:34:36.779 --> 00:34:37.899
 some out into the boats,

00:34:38.460 --> 00:34:40.559
 and others on the spars.

00:34:41.500 --> 00:34:43.960
 The spirit of the Lord has, I trust,

00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:45.940
 been striving with some of the sailors.

00:34:45.940 --> 00:34:50.340
 Though many are yet, I fear, in the gall of bitterness.

00:34:51.179 --> 00:34:53.159
 Some, however, are rejoicing in the Lord.

00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:56.159
 How would your heart rejoice with us?

00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:59.260
 Could you see these hardy sons of the ocean,

00:34:59.740 --> 00:35:02.840
 who would scorn to complain of any earthly hardships,

00:35:03.659 --> 00:35:07.860
 bowing with the spirit of children at the cross of Christ?

00:35:07.860 --> 00:35:11.400
 Much of her diary, it seems,

00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:13.860
 is actually addressed to Ashbell Green,

00:35:13.980 --> 00:35:15.640
 almost like a personal letter.

00:35:16.579 --> 00:35:17.539
 And he would later,

00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:19.820
 he would be the one that would later collect this

00:35:19.820 --> 00:35:23.480
 and print it in the little missionary journal

00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:25.039
 that the Presbyterians would send out.

00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:31.579
 Well, much of the Sabbath preaching on board

00:35:31.579 --> 00:35:34.579
 was aimed at reclaiming these hardy sons of the ocean.

00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:38.559
 From such texts as Genesis 19, 17,

00:35:38.739 --> 00:35:40.579
 escape for your lives.

00:35:41.519 --> 00:35:44.099
 Well, there was certainly no escaping from the sermons,

00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:46.340
 confined on boat as they were.

00:35:47.500 --> 00:35:48.960
 Five-month voyage, too.

00:35:49.860 --> 00:35:52.599
 Not a few, it seems, were, in fact, reclaimed.

00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:56.880
 And many others were, at least, if not reclaimed,

00:35:56.980 --> 00:35:58.340
 at least reformed.

00:35:59.240 --> 00:36:01.440
 As Betsy notes later in the voyage,

00:36:01.539 --> 00:36:04.000
 when the boats were launched in pursuit of a whale.

00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:06.880
 So remember, the missionaries are on a whaling ship.

00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:08.380
 It's not as if you could just,

00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:10.199
 they have all these, like, passenger ships

00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:11.740
 that are, like, going to the Sandwich Islands.

00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:14.320
 You just take whatever ship was going there,

00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:15.800
 and it was probably going to be a whaling ship.

00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:19.620
 So they go after whales, too.

00:36:19.980 --> 00:36:22.039
 Pretty dangerous, pretty dangerous to do.

00:36:22.740 --> 00:36:23.620
 So, Betsy writes,

00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:25.740
 four months ago, these boats,

00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:28.160
 as they're lowering the little ships

00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:29.180
 to go after the whales,

00:36:29.640 --> 00:36:33.100
 four months ago, these boats would not have been lowered

00:36:33.100 --> 00:36:35.800
 without having our ears assailed with oaths.

00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:37.920
 Swearing, in other words.

00:36:38.740 --> 00:36:42.539
 Yet, not a profane word is now heard.

00:36:43.080 --> 00:36:44.760
 Remarkable reformation.

00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:47.940
 Then she writes, I imagine, with a smile,

00:36:48.539 --> 00:36:51.420
 clearly, Satan is very much out of humor.

00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:55.019
 With the progress that the spirit is making with the sailors.

00:36:55.900 --> 00:36:57.740
 Well, if Satan was out of humor,

00:36:58.000 --> 00:36:58.740
 Betsy was not.

00:36:59.740 --> 00:37:03.340
 Sometimes the sun was so hot overhead,

00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:06.660
 she thought herself hallucinating.

00:37:06.659 --> 00:37:11.039
 The weather is so warm, she writes,

00:37:11.539 --> 00:37:15.239
 that the tar is dripping from the rigging

00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:17.879
 and the water from my face.

00:37:18.539 --> 00:37:21.039
 The ship almost in a calm,

00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:23.960
 and we under a vertical sun.

00:37:24.059 --> 00:37:25.379
 They're right at the equator, too.

00:37:26.819 --> 00:37:31.079
 I am ready to think that I have seen something new under the sun,

00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:32.920
 if nobody else has.

00:37:34.319 --> 00:37:34.880
 Hallucinating.

00:37:36.139 --> 00:37:41.079
 But this fiery globe would work more than heat stroke for Betsy.

00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:43.340
 She writes of witnessing, quote,

00:37:43.340 --> 00:37:48.500
 one of the most sublime scenes that ever the eyes of mortals beheld.

00:37:49.120 --> 00:37:50.920
 No language could paint it.

00:37:51.500 --> 00:37:52.960
 It was the setting of the sun.

00:37:53.900 --> 00:37:57.920
 The scene kept changing from beautiful to more beautiful,

00:37:58.260 --> 00:38:00.079
 and yet more beautiful still,

00:38:00.500 --> 00:38:04.360
 until I could think of nothing but the bright worlds above

00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:06.380
 to which the saints are hastening.

00:38:06.380 --> 00:38:11.119
 As soon as it was over and the sun had disappeared,

00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:13.440
 we were assembled on the quarter deck for prayers.

00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:17.039
 Here my soul found free access to the throne of grace

00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:21.240
 and rose with delight in the contemplation of that God

00:38:21.240 --> 00:38:26.559
 who is the author of all our joys and of all our good.

00:38:28.820 --> 00:38:34.000
 Moving from nature to the spiritual realities that they suggest

00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:37.739
 is a common feature of Betsy's journals

00:38:37.739 --> 00:38:41.380
 and very typical of the spirituality of this period.

00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:45.280
 Once their vessel was in a complete calm,

00:38:46.019 --> 00:38:47.780
 but unknown to Betsy,

00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:51.039
 was being insensibly drawn by a current

00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:53.099
 toward a craggy rock

00:38:53.099 --> 00:38:57.980
 upon which assuredly they would have met a watery end.

00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:00.280
 Witless of the danger,

00:39:00.980 --> 00:39:02.579
 she felt no distress at all.

00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:05.960
 But it was a false ease,

00:39:06.179 --> 00:39:07.400
 she realized subsequently.

00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:10.920
 This she saw as emblematic.

00:39:12.099 --> 00:39:13.400
 She writes in her diary,

00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:18.239
 Can there be anything more like a sleeping Christian

00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:21.659
 or an unawakened sinner as this?

00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:25.199
 In some of Betsy's words,

00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:28.380
 we find a window upon her younger days

00:39:28.380 --> 00:39:29.579
 in the green household,

00:39:29.579 --> 00:39:31.500
 which we had lacked

00:39:31.500 --> 00:39:34.559
 and which seems hearteningly

00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:36.900
 to witness a real friendship

00:39:36.900 --> 00:39:40.639
 and fond remembrances of home,

00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:41.759
 she calls it.

00:39:42.460 --> 00:39:43.139
 To Green,

00:39:43.619 --> 00:39:44.360
 as she writes,

00:39:45.139 --> 00:39:47.559
 of being a little homesick.

00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:50.119
 Oh, thought I,

00:39:50.739 --> 00:39:53.759
 if I could but spend one Sabbath evening

00:39:53.759 --> 00:39:55.239
 in your study,

00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:57.379
 how my heart would rejoice.

00:39:59.459 --> 00:40:00.739
 Yet she draws back

00:40:00.739 --> 00:40:02.179
 from indulging in such thoughts.

00:40:02.959 --> 00:40:04.699
 But I must not look forward

00:40:04.699 --> 00:40:05.599
 to that Sabbath

00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:07.139
 which will never end,

00:40:07.699 --> 00:40:09.419
 there to see face to face

00:40:09.419 --> 00:40:11.779
 what we now see dimly through a glass,

00:40:12.299 --> 00:40:14.359
 and to meet you with my other friends

00:40:14.359 --> 00:40:16.139
 whom I have left behind.

00:40:16.139 --> 00:40:19.420
 But her fond memories

00:40:19.420 --> 00:40:20.619
 and affectionate ties

00:40:20.619 --> 00:40:21.920
 keep surfacing.

00:40:22.859 --> 00:40:23.460
 Tis true,

00:40:24.059 --> 00:40:25.379
 the endearments of home

00:40:25.379 --> 00:40:26.920
 cannot be forgotten.

00:40:27.940 --> 00:40:29.239
 My mind often returns

00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:30.259
 to your family altar.

00:40:31.219 --> 00:40:31.519
 There,

00:40:31.859 --> 00:40:33.379
 I have often left my burden,

00:40:33.940 --> 00:40:35.019
 and I cannot forget

00:40:35.019 --> 00:40:36.460
 that consecrated spot.

00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:38.460
 Two things

00:40:38.460 --> 00:40:40.159
 put wind in her sails

00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:42.039
 amid such doldrums,

00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:43.139
 emotional doldrums,

00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:45.199
 praying friends at home

00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.299
 and present friends on board.

00:40:48.319 --> 00:40:50.419
 It is a source of consolation to me,

00:40:50.500 --> 00:40:50.939
 she writes,

00:40:51.059 --> 00:40:52.359
 to be able to think

00:40:52.359 --> 00:40:53.879
 that you with many others

00:40:53.879 --> 00:40:54.980
 in my native land

00:40:54.980 --> 00:40:55.960
 pray for me.

00:40:56.559 --> 00:40:57.899
 Were it not for that,

00:40:58.339 --> 00:41:00.619
 I should almost despair.

00:41:01.539 --> 00:41:02.919
 Good reminder for us

00:41:02.919 --> 00:41:04.339
 to pray for our missionaries.

00:41:05.779 --> 00:41:06.579
 And later,

00:41:07.019 --> 00:41:09.639
 she writes to Ashbell Green,

00:41:09.779 --> 00:41:10.919
 when you think of me

00:41:10.919 --> 00:41:11.859
 as a stranger

00:41:11.859 --> 00:41:13.159
 in a strange land,

00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.179
 think of me still

00:41:15.179 --> 00:41:16.699
 as one who has

00:41:16.699 --> 00:41:17.920
 kind friends.

00:41:19.339 --> 00:41:20.859
 The sustaining bond

00:41:20.859 --> 00:41:21.399
 of friendship

00:41:21.399 --> 00:41:23.679
 were especially felt

00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:24.539
 toward the stewards

00:41:24.539 --> 00:41:25.440
 for whom Betsy

00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:26.379
 was part of the family.

00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:29.359
 The ties were only deepened

00:41:29.359 --> 00:41:30.279
 with the birth

00:41:30.279 --> 00:41:31.099
 at sea

00:41:31.099 --> 00:41:32.379
 of their son,

00:41:32.539 --> 00:41:33.719
 his name memorializing

00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:34.339
 the circumstance

00:41:34.339 --> 00:41:35.059
 of his birth.

00:41:35.579 --> 00:41:37.440
 Little Charles Seaforth

00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.339
 was his name,

00:41:39.799 --> 00:41:40.879
 who Betsy considered

00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:41.940
 my charge.

00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:43.880
 The little fellow

00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:45.260
 beguiled many

00:41:45.260 --> 00:41:46.880
 of my lonely hours.

00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:48.340
 The first moment

00:41:48.340 --> 00:41:49.700
 I saw this little innocent,

00:41:50.019 --> 00:41:51.180
 I felt emotions

00:41:51.180 --> 00:41:52.680
 I was unacquainted

00:41:52.680 --> 00:41:53.420
 with before.

00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:55.660
 This, no doubt,

00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:57.220
 arose from my deep

00:41:57.220 --> 00:41:57.820
 attachments

00:41:57.820 --> 00:41:58.800
 to his parents.

00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:02.920
 Betsy and Stuart's lives

00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:03.940
 would be affectionately

00:42:03.940 --> 00:42:04.400
 entwined,

00:42:04.500 --> 00:42:05.960
 not only on the mission field,

00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:07.539
 in which they were

00:42:07.539 --> 00:42:08.840
 about to arrive,

00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:10.920
 but for their entire lives.

00:42:11.820 --> 00:42:13.059
 Their final arrival

00:42:13.059 --> 00:42:13.920
 on that field,

00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.099
 there they are,

00:42:19.099 --> 00:42:21.279
 you can see that boat,

00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:22.059
 you can't quite see it,

00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:23.420
 but there's the American flag

00:42:23.420 --> 00:42:25.480
 that's on that ship.

00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:26.820
 Their final arrival

00:42:26.820 --> 00:42:28.039
 upon that field,

00:42:28.579 --> 00:42:29.880
 five months,

00:42:30.340 --> 00:42:31.599
 after five months

00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:32.860
 on the open ocean,

00:42:33.420 --> 00:42:35.719
 has some typical marks

00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:37.500
 of cross-cultural encounter.

00:42:38.399 --> 00:42:39.419
 It seems

00:42:39.419 --> 00:42:41.919
 the Hawaiian greeting party

00:42:41.919 --> 00:42:44.899
 were more scantily clad

00:42:44.899 --> 00:42:46.039
 than the newcomers.

00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:49.819
 And this sorely tested

00:42:49.819 --> 00:42:51.299
 their missionary mettle.

00:42:52.099 --> 00:42:53.859
 As Betsy describes,

00:42:54.319 --> 00:42:56.299
 two or three canoes

00:42:56.299 --> 00:42:57.759
 loaded with natives

00:42:57.759 --> 00:42:58.939
 came to the ship.

00:42:59.819 --> 00:43:01.019
 Their appearance

00:43:01.019 --> 00:43:02.139
 was that of

00:43:02.139 --> 00:43:02.980
 half man,

00:43:03.279 --> 00:43:03.980
 half beast.

00:43:03.980 --> 00:43:05.000
 naked,

00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:08.119
 except a narrow strip

00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:09.019
 of tapa

00:43:09.019 --> 00:43:11.599
 round their loins.

00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:13.519
 Apparently,

00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:14.320
 the shock

00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:15.460
 was just too great.

00:43:15.579 --> 00:43:16.159
 If you're wondering

00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:17.360
 what a tapa is,

00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:19.500
 apparently,

00:43:19.740 --> 00:43:20.079
 yes.

00:43:21.139 --> 00:43:22.159
 It's that little,

00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:23.340
 little tiny,

00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:25.820
 little strip

00:43:25.820 --> 00:43:26.619
 there,

00:43:27.260 --> 00:43:28.119
 but nothing,

00:43:28.260 --> 00:43:29.900
 nothing at all else.

00:43:29.900 --> 00:43:31.360
 So,

00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:33.579
 as Betsy continues,

00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:35.920
 when they first

00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:36.680
 came on board,

00:43:37.160 --> 00:43:38.400
 the sight

00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:40.180
 chilled our very hearts.

00:43:40.619 --> 00:43:41.180
 The ladies

00:43:41.180 --> 00:43:42.380
 immediately retired

00:43:42.380 --> 00:43:43.019
 to the cabin

00:43:43.019 --> 00:43:44.280
 and there burst

00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:46.220
 into uncontrollable tears.

00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:48.200
 And some of the gentlemen

00:43:48.200 --> 00:43:49.519
 turned pale.

00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:51.220
 My own soul

00:43:51.220 --> 00:43:52.340
 sickened within me

00:43:52.340 --> 00:43:53.559
 and every nerve

00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:54.160
 trembled.

00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:55.579
 Are these,

00:43:55.800 --> 00:43:56.360
 thought I,

00:43:56.460 --> 00:43:57.119
 the beings

00:43:57.119 --> 00:43:58.639
 with whom I must spend

00:43:58.639 --> 00:43:59.299
 the remainder

00:43:59.299 --> 00:44:00.239
 of my life?

00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:03.480
 But she rallied

00:44:03.480 --> 00:44:05.159
 and shifted

00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:05.799
 her focus

00:44:05.799 --> 00:44:06.480
 from thongs

00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:07.179
 to theology.

00:44:08.179 --> 00:44:09.980
 They are men

00:44:09.980 --> 00:44:11.239
 and have souls

00:44:11.239 --> 00:44:12.679
 was the reply

00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:13.940
 my conscience made

00:44:13.940 --> 00:44:15.079
 prompted by the spirit.

00:44:15.980 --> 00:44:16.159
 So,

00:44:16.359 --> 00:44:16.599
 good.

00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:18.500
 Gifts

00:44:18.500 --> 00:44:19.739
 were exchanged

00:44:19.739 --> 00:44:20.980
 and perhaps

00:44:20.980 --> 00:44:22.779
 it was no coincidence

00:44:22.779 --> 00:44:23.920
 that upon receiving

00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:24.679
 coconuts

00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:25.719
 and fish

00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:26.480
 from the locals,

00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:27.579
 the missionaries

00:44:27.579 --> 00:44:28.039
 gave them

00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:28.739
 pants

00:44:28.739 --> 00:44:29.440
 and shirts

00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:30.119
 in return.

00:44:33.079 --> 00:44:33.679
 Divergent

00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:34.239
 amounts

00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:34.859
 of apparel

00:44:34.859 --> 00:44:36.239
 was not

00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:36.679
 the only

00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:37.419
 cross-cultural

00:44:37.419 --> 00:44:37.980
 incident,

00:44:38.379 --> 00:44:39.539
 as Betsy tells.

00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:40.699
 I brought

00:44:40.699 --> 00:44:41.619
 my little boy

00:44:41.619 --> 00:44:42.379
 on deck

00:44:42.379 --> 00:44:43.139
 who was

00:44:43.139 --> 00:44:44.219
 two weeks old.

00:44:44.980 --> 00:44:45.819
 Some of them,

00:44:46.219 --> 00:44:46.799
 the native,

00:44:46.919 --> 00:44:47.419
 the Hawaiians,

00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:48.059
 the locals,

00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:48.599
 some of them

00:44:48.599 --> 00:44:49.239
 took him

00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:49.899
 in their arms

00:44:49.899 --> 00:44:51.079
 and in ecstasy

00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:52.059
 exclaimed,

00:44:52.059 --> 00:44:54.619
 Araha

00:44:54.619 --> 00:44:55.900
 Miatai,

00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:57.659
 forgive me

00:44:57.659 --> 00:44:58.259
 for those of you

00:44:58.259 --> 00:44:58.820
 who speak

00:44:58.820 --> 00:44:59.400
 Hawaiian,

00:44:59.639 --> 00:45:00.440
 I don't know

00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:01.119
 how to pronounce it.

00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:02.239
 It means

00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:03.820
 very great love

00:45:03.820 --> 00:45:04.299
 to you,

00:45:04.579 --> 00:45:05.480
 very great love

00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:05.880
 to you

00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:06.940
 and kissed him

00:45:06.940 --> 00:45:07.779
 the baby,

00:45:08.340 --> 00:45:09.059
 a little seaworth.

00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:10.699
 She continues,

00:45:11.639 --> 00:45:12.659
 that last

00:45:12.659 --> 00:45:13.340
 expression

00:45:13.340 --> 00:45:14.019
 of affection,

00:45:14.820 --> 00:45:15.860
 Betsy primly

00:45:15.860 --> 00:45:16.340
 inserts,

00:45:16.759 --> 00:45:17.659
 we could have

00:45:17.659 --> 00:45:18.380
 dispensed with

00:45:18.380 --> 00:45:18.960
 very well

00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:20.279
 but

00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:21.400
 we have

00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:21.940
 to become

00:45:21.940 --> 00:45:22.620
 all things

00:45:22.620 --> 00:45:23.400
 to all men

00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:24.460
 that we might

00:45:24.460 --> 00:45:25.840
 gain some.

00:45:26.720 --> 00:45:27.700
 What a great

00:45:27.700 --> 00:45:28.440
 application

00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:29.600
 of that

00:45:29.600 --> 00:45:30.320
 mighty

00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:31.280
 Pauline principle.

00:45:31.660 --> 00:45:32.180
 For the sake

00:45:32.180 --> 00:45:32.880
 of the gospel,

00:45:33.460 --> 00:45:34.440
 we will let them

00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:35.600
 kiss our babies.

00:45:36.260 --> 00:45:37.380
 Flexible missionaries

00:45:37.380 --> 00:45:37.960
 indeed.

00:45:40.300 --> 00:45:41.360
 Betsy's time

00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:41.900
 in Hawaii

00:45:41.900 --> 00:45:42.940
 would prove

00:45:42.940 --> 00:45:43.980
 quite short

00:45:43.980 --> 00:45:45.800
 but no time

00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:46.400
 was wasted.

00:45:47.620 --> 00:45:48.000
 She

00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:49.100
 announced

00:45:49.099 --> 00:45:50.119
 to the locals

00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:50.639
 that she

00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:51.400
 would start

00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:51.940
 a school.

00:45:52.779 --> 00:45:53.539
 They in turn

00:45:53.539 --> 00:45:54.119
 requested

00:45:54.119 --> 00:45:55.319
 enthusiastically

00:45:55.319 --> 00:45:56.460
 that instruction

00:45:56.460 --> 00:45:57.380
 begin the very

00:45:57.380 --> 00:45:58.099
 next day

00:45:58.099 --> 00:45:59.500
 and it did.

00:45:59.860 --> 00:46:00.539
 She was ready

00:46:00.539 --> 00:46:01.019
 to go.

00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:03.179
 By all

00:46:03.179 --> 00:46:03.799
 accounts,

00:46:04.759 --> 00:46:05.739
 she was

00:46:05.739 --> 00:46:07.719
 a very

00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:08.380
 skilled,

00:46:09.179 --> 00:46:09.920
 that's not

00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:10.719
 Betsy,

00:46:10.799 --> 00:46:11.500
 I'll explain

00:46:11.500 --> 00:46:12.039
 this in a moment.

00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:13.159
 By all

00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:13.539
 accounts,

00:46:13.940 --> 00:46:14.440
 she was

00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:15.400
 a skilled

00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:16.199
 and well

00:46:16.199 --> 00:46:17.019
 loved teacher.

00:46:17.019 --> 00:46:18.739
 she was

00:46:18.739 --> 00:46:19.599
 also

00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:20.679
 well loved

00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:21.380
 by the

00:46:21.380 --> 00:46:21.920
 king of

00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:22.719
 Hawaii's

00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:23.659
 favorite

00:46:23.659 --> 00:46:24.179
 queen.

00:46:24.900 --> 00:46:25.340
 There she

00:46:25.340 --> 00:46:25.719
 is

00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:27.159
 with a

00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:28.039
 servant

00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:28.440
 there.

00:46:30.820 --> 00:46:31.840
 He had

00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:32.259
 four

00:46:32.259 --> 00:46:33.300
 queens,

00:46:33.460 --> 00:46:34.099
 four wives

00:46:34.099 --> 00:46:36.360
 but his

00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:37.280
 favorite queen,

00:46:37.539 --> 00:46:37.780
 she,

00:46:38.019 --> 00:46:38.639
 who of

00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:39.400
 all the

00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:40.079
 foreign

00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:40.739
 guests,

00:46:40.900 --> 00:46:41.460
 the missionaries

00:46:41.460 --> 00:46:41.759
 that were

00:46:41.759 --> 00:46:42.000
 there,

00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:43.219
 would invariably

00:46:43.219 --> 00:46:44.360
 select Betsy

00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:45.140
 to sit

00:46:45.140 --> 00:46:45.539
 with her

00:46:45.539 --> 00:46:45.960
 on the

00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:46.860
 royal sofa

00:46:46.860 --> 00:46:48.019
 in state

00:46:48.019 --> 00:46:48.760
 functions.

00:46:49.019 --> 00:46:49.240
 It's

00:46:49.240 --> 00:46:49.640
 wonderful.

00:46:49.820 --> 00:46:50.140
 They had

00:46:50.140 --> 00:46:50.760
 a real

00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:51.740
 connection.

00:46:53.099 --> 00:46:53.760
 And when

00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:55.120
 the king's

00:46:55.120 --> 00:46:55.579
 son,

00:46:57.039 --> 00:46:58.440
 there he

00:46:58.440 --> 00:46:58.840
 is,

00:47:03.340 --> 00:47:05.559
 and when

00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:06.039
 the king's

00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:06.420
 son's

00:47:06.420 --> 00:47:07.099
 education

00:47:07.099 --> 00:47:07.980
 was considered,

00:47:07.980 --> 00:47:09.519
 it was

00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:10.280
 Betsy

00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:10.760
 who was

00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:11.300
 selected

00:47:11.300 --> 00:47:12.539
 to provide

00:47:12.539 --> 00:47:13.860
 the

00:47:13.860 --> 00:47:16.619
 responsibility.

00:47:18.900 --> 00:47:19.760
 So it

00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:20.320
 would seem

00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:22.460
 a one-time

00:47:22.460 --> 00:47:23.240
 indentured

00:47:23.240 --> 00:47:24.059
 servant

00:47:24.059 --> 00:47:25.599
 had become

00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:26.519
 the companion

00:47:26.519 --> 00:47:27.480
 to queens

00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:28.659
 and the

00:47:28.659 --> 00:47:28.960
 tutor

00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:29.900
 to heirs

00:47:29.900 --> 00:47:30.440
 of parent.

00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:31.320
 Isn't that

00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:31.719
 wonderful?

00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:33.019
 It would

00:47:33.019 --> 00:47:33.519
 appear the

00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:34.039
 fulfillment of

00:47:34.039 --> 00:47:34.480
 the proverb,

00:47:34.980 --> 00:47:35.559
 do you see

00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:36.500
 one skillful

00:47:36.500 --> 00:47:36.820
 in their

00:47:36.820 --> 00:47:37.179
 work?

00:47:37.179 --> 00:47:38.319
 They

00:47:38.319 --> 00:47:38.599
 shall

00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:39.099
 stand

00:47:39.099 --> 00:47:39.480
 before

00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:39.980
 royalty.

00:47:41.739 --> 00:47:42.339
 Proverbs

00:47:42.339 --> 00:47:42.719
 22,

00:47:42.799 --> 00:47:43.239
 29.

00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:45.239
 But

00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:46.039
 these

00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:46.440
 gifts

00:47:46.440 --> 00:47:47.159
 were not

00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:47.679
 exhausted

00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:48.319
 on royalty.

00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:49.559
 She was

00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:50.019
 keen to

00:47:50.019 --> 00:47:50.859
 establish,

00:47:50.940 --> 00:47:51.579
 very keen

00:47:51.579 --> 00:47:52.079
 to establish

00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:52.679
 a school

00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:53.559
 also for

00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:53.759
 the

00:47:53.759 --> 00:47:54.500
 commoners

00:47:54.500 --> 00:47:55.519
 and did

00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:55.819
 so.

00:47:56.399 --> 00:47:56.779
 As she

00:47:56.779 --> 00:47:57.119
 wrote to

00:47:57.119 --> 00:47:57.500
 Ashbell

00:47:57.500 --> 00:47:57.759
 Green,

00:47:58.099 --> 00:47:58.599
 I have

00:47:58.599 --> 00:47:59.339
 now a

00:47:59.339 --> 00:47:59.699
 fine

00:47:59.699 --> 00:48:00.099
 school

00:48:00.099 --> 00:48:00.519
 for the

00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:00.739
 lower

00:48:00.739 --> 00:48:01.159
 class

00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:01.339
 of

00:48:01.339 --> 00:48:01.639
 people,

00:48:02.259 --> 00:48:02.460
 the

00:48:02.460 --> 00:48:02.940
 first,

00:48:03.460 --> 00:48:04.039
 I believe,

00:48:04.319 --> 00:48:04.659
 that has

00:48:04.659 --> 00:48:05.239
 ever been

00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:05.759
 established.

00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:06.159
 She's

00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:06.359
 certainly

00:48:06.359 --> 00:48:06.799
 right about

00:48:06.799 --> 00:48:07.099
 that.

00:48:07.179 --> 00:48:09.480
 The school

00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:10.059
 started with

00:48:10.059 --> 00:48:11.179
 30 and

00:48:11.179 --> 00:48:11.500
 grew,

00:48:12.419 --> 00:48:13.299
 meeting every

00:48:13.299 --> 00:48:14.399
 afternoon with

00:48:14.399 --> 00:48:15.940
 Betsy instructing

00:48:15.940 --> 00:48:16.719
 in the native

00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:18.059
 tongue in which

00:48:18.059 --> 00:48:19.039
 she had managed

00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:19.639
 by then to

00:48:19.639 --> 00:48:20.719
 become quite

00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:21.539
 proficient.

00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:23.779
 She certainly

00:48:23.779 --> 00:48:24.619
 was busy with

00:48:24.619 --> 00:48:25.039
 all of her

00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:25.440
 teaching,

00:48:26.440 --> 00:48:27.399
 alongside the

00:48:27.399 --> 00:48:28.859
 much care that

00:48:28.859 --> 00:48:29.460
 she provided

00:48:29.460 --> 00:48:30.179
 for Harriet

00:48:30.179 --> 00:48:30.759
 Stewart,

00:48:31.099 --> 00:48:32.359
 who seemed

00:48:32.359 --> 00:48:33.500
 to constantly

00:48:33.500 --> 00:48:34.839
 struggle with

00:48:34.839 --> 00:48:35.359
 her health.

00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:38.380
 perhaps it

00:48:38.380 --> 00:48:38.800
 was the

00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:39.340
 press of

00:48:39.340 --> 00:48:40.220
 duties that

00:48:40.220 --> 00:48:40.539
 caused

00:48:40.539 --> 00:48:41.420
 Betsy to

00:48:41.420 --> 00:48:42.220
 abandon her

00:48:42.220 --> 00:48:42.620
 journal,

00:48:43.200 --> 00:48:43.940
 which sadly

00:48:43.940 --> 00:48:44.800
 ends at

00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:45.420
 this time.

00:48:46.260 --> 00:48:47.280
 Her final

00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:48.200
 entry records

00:48:48.200 --> 00:48:49.160
 how she was

00:48:49.160 --> 00:48:49.900
 longing for

00:48:49.900 --> 00:48:50.740
 some letter

00:48:50.740 --> 00:48:51.500
 from home,

00:48:52.200 --> 00:48:52.700
 and hopeful

00:48:52.700 --> 00:48:55.180
 as one

00:48:55.180 --> 00:48:56.059
 ship was

00:48:56.059 --> 00:48:56.860
 expected from

00:48:56.860 --> 00:48:57.519
 Boston and

00:48:57.519 --> 00:48:58.200
 another from

00:48:58.200 --> 00:48:58.760
 New York.

00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:00.200
 So her

00:49:00.200 --> 00:49:00.980
 last entry

00:49:00.980 --> 00:49:01.920
 of her

00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:02.280
 diary,

00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:03.500
 I often

00:49:03.500 --> 00:49:04.140
 visited the

00:49:04.140 --> 00:49:04.700
 beach to

00:49:04.700 --> 00:49:05.260
 watch for

00:49:05.260 --> 00:49:05.880
 sails.

00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:07.780
 Then poignantly

00:49:07.780 --> 00:49:08.260
 notes,

00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:09.240
 the vessel

00:49:09.240 --> 00:49:09.880
 arrived at

00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:10.360
 last,

00:49:10.900 --> 00:49:11.660
 but brought

00:49:11.660 --> 00:49:12.060
 me no

00:49:12.060 --> 00:49:12.540
 letters.

00:49:12.539 --> 00:49:15.019
 perhaps there

00:49:15.019 --> 00:49:15.719
 is encouragement

00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:16.940
 here for

00:49:16.940 --> 00:49:17.880
 our communication

00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:18.360
 with our

00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:19.039
 missionaries

00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:19.820
 abroad,

00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:21.099
 for like

00:49:21.099 --> 00:49:21.820
 cold water

00:49:21.820 --> 00:49:22.420
 to a thirsty

00:49:22.420 --> 00:49:22.900
 soul,

00:49:23.500 --> 00:49:24.159
 so is good

00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:24.860
 news from a

00:49:24.860 --> 00:49:25.519
 far country,

00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:26.239
 it says in

00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:26.699
 Proverbs.

00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:29.039
 Betsy's

00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:29.960
 sojourn upon

00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:30.679
 her Hawaiian

00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:31.820
 mission field

00:49:31.820 --> 00:49:32.279
 would prove

00:49:32.279 --> 00:49:32.639
 short,

00:49:33.139 --> 00:49:33.960
 lasting only

00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:34.519
 two and a

00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:35.119
 half years,

00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:36.079
 for Harriet

00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:37.599
 Stewart had

00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:38.460
 become so

00:49:38.460 --> 00:49:39.320
 ill they

00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:39.980
 feared she

00:49:39.980 --> 00:49:40.380
 would be

00:49:40.380 --> 00:49:41.480
 lost if

00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:41.820
 they did

00:49:41.820 --> 00:49:42.420
 not return.

00:49:42.539 --> 00:49:43.639
 And Betsy,

00:49:43.900 --> 00:49:44.639
 so much a

00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:45.039
 part of the

00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:45.400
 family,

00:49:45.779 --> 00:49:46.300
 would not

00:49:46.300 --> 00:49:47.199
 leave Harriet's

00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:47.539
 side,

00:49:48.039 --> 00:49:48.400
 nor the

00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:49.360
 now two

00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:50.759
 young children

00:49:50.759 --> 00:49:51.639
 who knew

00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:52.320
 her as

00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:52.800
 their second

00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:53.159
 mother.

00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:55.000
 It would

00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:55.460
 take the

00:49:55.460 --> 00:49:55.940
 Stewart's

00:49:55.940 --> 00:49:57.019
 and Betsy

00:49:57.019 --> 00:49:57.940
 gruelingly

00:49:57.940 --> 00:49:58.840
 nearly a

00:49:58.840 --> 00:49:59.759
 year to

00:49:59.759 --> 00:50:00.599
 sail back

00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:02.219
 to America.

00:50:03.300 --> 00:50:03.679
 Harriet,

00:50:03.980 --> 00:50:04.579
 it seems,

00:50:04.980 --> 00:50:05.840
 would never

00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:06.920
 fully recover

00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:07.500
 her broken

00:50:07.500 --> 00:50:08.739
 health and

00:50:08.739 --> 00:50:09.259
 die just

00:50:09.259 --> 00:50:09.900
 four years

00:50:09.900 --> 00:50:10.420
 after their

00:50:10.420 --> 00:50:10.820
 return.

00:50:10.820 --> 00:50:12.440
 during this

00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:13.600
 time with

00:50:13.600 --> 00:50:14.240
 Father

00:50:14.240 --> 00:50:15.080
 Charles,

00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:16.559
 often away

00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:17.140
 for long

00:50:17.140 --> 00:50:18.220
 stretches as

00:50:18.220 --> 00:50:18.580
 Navy

00:50:18.580 --> 00:50:19.160
 chaplain,

00:50:19.740 --> 00:50:20.039
 couldn't

00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:20.480
 hold down

00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:21.360
 the missionary

00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:21.640
 so he

00:50:21.640 --> 00:50:21.960
 became a

00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:22.120
 Navy

00:50:22.120 --> 00:50:22.519
 chaplain.

00:50:24.519 --> 00:50:25.420
 Odd job

00:50:25.420 --> 00:50:25.980
 to pick up

00:50:25.980 --> 00:50:26.260
 when your

00:50:26.260 --> 00:50:26.720
 wife is

00:50:26.720 --> 00:50:27.240
 very ill,

00:50:27.420 --> 00:50:28.400
 but he

00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:28.880
 was away

00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:29.340
 a lot.

00:50:29.500 --> 00:50:30.180
 But Betsy

00:50:30.180 --> 00:50:30.640
 would for

00:50:30.640 --> 00:50:31.960
 seasons drop

00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:32.559
 her new

00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:33.500
 venture in

00:50:33.500 --> 00:50:34.059
 Philadelphia

00:50:34.059 --> 00:50:35.180
 to come

00:50:35.180 --> 00:50:35.720
 and take

00:50:35.720 --> 00:50:36.680
 care of

00:50:36.680 --> 00:50:37.260
 the children

00:50:37.260 --> 00:50:37.900
 in upstate

00:50:37.900 --> 00:50:38.580
 New York.

00:50:38.579 --> 00:50:40.039
 Now three

00:50:40.039 --> 00:50:41.920
 children and

00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:42.340
 waning

00:50:42.340 --> 00:50:43.099
 Harriet.

00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:47.840
 Well, that

00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:48.659
 new venture

00:50:48.659 --> 00:50:49.639
 of Betsy's

00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:50.000
 was an

00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:50.719
 extraordinary

00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:51.799
 one and

00:50:51.799 --> 00:50:53.000
 surely no

00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:53.799
 less challenging.

00:50:53.799 --> 00:50:54.139
 A prominent

00:50:54.139 --> 00:50:54.659
 Philadelphia

00:50:54.659 --> 00:50:55.059
 printer,

00:50:55.259 --> 00:50:55.519
 publisher,

00:50:55.639 --> 00:50:56.460
 and philanthropist

00:50:56.460 --> 00:50:57.940
 Matthew

00:50:57.940 --> 00:50:58.559
 Carey

00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:00.099
 trembled for

00:51:00.099 --> 00:51:00.599
 the future

00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:01.000
 of his

00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:01.319
 city.

00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:02.380
 There he

00:51:02.380 --> 00:51:02.679
 is.

00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:04.980
 Go

00:51:04.980 --> 00:51:05.519
 through our

00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:06.139
 streets,

00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:06.879
 lanes,

00:51:07.019 --> 00:51:07.639
 and alleys,

00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:08.679
 and view

00:51:08.679 --> 00:51:09.359
 the appearance

00:51:09.359 --> 00:51:09.980
 and manners

00:51:09.980 --> 00:51:10.859
 of children,

00:51:11.460 --> 00:51:11.839
 dirty,

00:51:12.399 --> 00:51:12.899
 ragged,

00:51:13.239 --> 00:51:13.799
 quarreling,

00:51:14.179 --> 00:51:15.119
 often cursing

00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:15.819
 and swearing,

00:51:16.219 --> 00:51:16.779
 and sowing

00:51:16.779 --> 00:51:17.399
 the seeds

00:51:17.399 --> 00:51:18.219
 of vice

00:51:18.219 --> 00:51:19.379
 and crimes

00:51:19.379 --> 00:51:20.339
 which are

00:51:20.339 --> 00:51:21.019
 likely to

00:51:21.019 --> 00:51:21.879
 consign them

00:51:21.879 --> 00:51:22.500
 when the

00:51:22.500 --> 00:51:23.000
 fruits of

00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:23.859
 that education

00:51:23.859 --> 00:51:24.599
 have arrived

00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:25.299
 at maturity

00:51:25.299 --> 00:51:27.239
 to houses

00:51:27.239 --> 00:51:28.259
 of refuge,

00:51:28.739 --> 00:51:29.579
 penitentiaries,

00:51:29.940 --> 00:51:31.139
 and jails.

00:51:31.139 --> 00:51:33.139
 Well, to

00:51:33.139 --> 00:51:33.719
 counter this

00:51:33.719 --> 00:51:34.920
 grim specter,

00:51:35.639 --> 00:51:36.359
 a colored

00:51:36.359 --> 00:51:37.519
 infant school

00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:38.299
 was to be

00:51:38.299 --> 00:51:39.059
 established for

00:51:39.059 --> 00:51:40.059
 children two

00:51:40.059 --> 00:51:41.440
 to five years

00:51:41.440 --> 00:51:41.859
 old.

00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:43.319
 But who

00:51:43.319 --> 00:51:44.179
 could plausibly

00:51:44.179 --> 00:51:45.400
 captain such

00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:45.879
 a vessel?

00:51:47.379 --> 00:51:48.119
 But Carey

00:51:48.119 --> 00:51:48.599
 thought he

00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:49.339
 had his man,

00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:50.819
 and she

00:51:50.819 --> 00:51:51.339
 was a woman.

00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:54.059
 Fame as a

00:51:54.059 --> 00:51:54.379
 missionary

00:51:54.379 --> 00:51:55.619
 educator marked

00:51:55.619 --> 00:51:57.099
 out Betsy as

00:51:57.099 --> 00:51:59.119
 the ideal to

00:51:59.119 --> 00:51:59.960
 direct such

00:51:59.960 --> 00:52:00.779
 an outreach.

00:52:01.139 --> 00:52:01.460
 And her

00:52:01.460 --> 00:52:02.179
 services were

00:52:02.179 --> 00:52:03.099
 sought with

00:52:03.099 --> 00:52:03.980
 a salary of

00:52:03.980 --> 00:52:05.599
 $200 per

00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:05.920
 year.

00:52:06.500 --> 00:52:07.339
 I think that

00:52:07.339 --> 00:52:07.920
 was reasonably

00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:09.659
 high in my

00:52:09.659 --> 00:52:10.199
 translations.

00:52:12.059 --> 00:52:13.440
 $200 a year.

00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:14.400
 Betsy accepted

00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:15.400
 the challenge.

00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:17.079
 On the first

00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:17.900
 day of May,

00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:19.179
 1828,

00:52:19.619 --> 00:52:21.219
 46 little

00:52:21.219 --> 00:52:22.379
 urchins were

00:52:22.379 --> 00:52:22.759
 present.

00:52:23.139 --> 00:52:23.799
 But by the

00:52:23.799 --> 00:52:24.359
 end of the

00:52:24.359 --> 00:52:24.639
 month,

00:52:24.779 --> 00:52:25.900
 another 29,

00:52:26.239 --> 00:52:26.659
 that makes

00:52:26.659 --> 00:52:27.339
 75,

00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:28.519
 were added.

00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:29.519
 And it

00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:30.759
 kept growing

00:52:30.759 --> 00:52:31.599
 at reports

00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:32.400
 of Betsy's

00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:33.559
 surprising

00:52:33.559 --> 00:52:34.679
 success.

00:52:36.980 --> 00:52:37.179
 Oh,

00:52:37.259 --> 00:52:37.659
 here's a,

00:52:38.139 --> 00:52:38.800
 this is not

00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:39.519
 Betsy's infant

00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:39.920
 school,

00:52:40.059 --> 00:52:40.800
 but this is a

00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:41.820
 period infant

00:52:41.820 --> 00:52:42.599
 school.

00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:47.139
 No surprise

00:52:47.139 --> 00:52:48.780
 that success

00:52:48.780 --> 00:52:49.900
 was surprising.

00:52:49.900 --> 00:52:51.160
 I mean,

00:52:51.220 --> 00:52:52.139
 what hopes

00:52:52.139 --> 00:52:52.619
 could a

00:52:52.619 --> 00:52:53.519
 teacher have

00:52:53.519 --> 00:52:55.220
 with 115

00:52:55.220 --> 00:52:58.559
 infants in

00:52:58.559 --> 00:52:59.180
 the classroom?

00:52:59.420 --> 00:53:01.220
 115 between

00:53:01.220 --> 00:53:02.280
 ages 2 and

00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:02.680
 5.

00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:04.460
 I mean,

00:53:04.519 --> 00:53:04.840
 I keep

00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:05.420
 trying to

00:53:05.420 --> 00:53:05.980
 picture the

00:53:05.980 --> 00:53:06.680
 classroom.

00:53:07.740 --> 00:53:08.579
 Am I

00:53:08.579 --> 00:53:08.880
 missing

00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:09.400
 something?

00:53:09.940 --> 00:53:11.059
 Or could

00:53:11.059 --> 00:53:12.039
 Betsy Stockton

00:53:12.039 --> 00:53:13.740
 have been one

00:53:13.740 --> 00:53:14.180
 of the most

00:53:14.180 --> 00:53:15.180
 talented teachers

00:53:15.180 --> 00:53:15.880
 ever?

00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:16.920
 Ever?

00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:17.539
 I mean,

00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:17.920
 this seems

00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:18.480
 extraordinary

00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:18.860
 to me.

00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:22.280
 I do

00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:22.920
 children's

00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:23.200
 church,

00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:24.860
 and I

00:53:24.860 --> 00:53:25.320
 love it,

00:53:25.500 --> 00:53:26.039
 but there

00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:26.240
 are not

00:53:26.240 --> 00:53:27.460
 115 there

00:53:27.460 --> 00:53:28.280
 between 2

00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:28.880
 and 5.

00:53:29.240 --> 00:53:29.860
 That would

00:53:29.860 --> 00:53:30.260
 be very

00:53:30.260 --> 00:53:30.740
 challenging.

00:53:33.240 --> 00:53:33.760
 Well,

00:53:34.180 --> 00:53:34.440
 okay,

00:53:34.579 --> 00:53:34.980
 I guess

00:53:34.980 --> 00:53:35.639
 she did

00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:36.059
 have,

00:53:36.180 --> 00:53:36.680
 she did

00:53:36.680 --> 00:53:37.980
 have one

00:53:37.980 --> 00:53:38.700
 classroom

00:53:38.700 --> 00:53:39.180
 assistant.

00:53:39.680 --> 00:53:39.820
 Okay,

00:53:39.880 --> 00:53:40.220
 so maybe

00:53:40.220 --> 00:53:40.720
 that's it.

00:53:41.000 --> 00:53:41.440
 Maybe that's

00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:41.659
 it.

00:53:42.340 --> 00:53:42.539
 No,

00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:42.740
 gee,

00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:43.480
 no.

00:53:44.099 --> 00:53:44.300
 An

00:53:44.300 --> 00:53:44.800
 oversight

00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:45.840
 committee

00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:46.579
 visited

00:53:46.579 --> 00:53:47.799
 and wrote

00:53:47.799 --> 00:53:48.279
 up a

00:53:48.279 --> 00:53:48.659
 report.

00:53:50.779 --> 00:53:51.619
 It was

00:53:51.619 --> 00:53:52.340
 not to

00:53:52.340 --> 00:53:53.199
 be expected

00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:54.259
 that in

00:53:54.259 --> 00:53:54.699
 the short

00:53:54.699 --> 00:53:55.319
 space of

00:53:55.319 --> 00:53:56.279
 one month,

00:53:57.079 --> 00:53:57.940
 any material

00:53:57.940 --> 00:53:58.719
 change could

00:53:58.719 --> 00:53:59.400
 be affected

00:53:59.400 --> 00:53:59.860
 in the

00:53:59.860 --> 00:54:00.480
 manners and

00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:01.039
 habits of

00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:01.579
 the children,

00:54:01.779 --> 00:54:02.380
 ignorant and

00:54:02.380 --> 00:54:03.279
 uneducated.

00:54:04.799 --> 00:54:05.539
 But they

00:54:05.539 --> 00:54:06.099
 found the

00:54:06.099 --> 00:54:06.480
 infants,

00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:06.900
 quote,

00:54:07.179 --> 00:54:08.159
 more cleanly

00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:08.519
 in their

00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:08.960
 persons,

00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:09.759
 more regular

00:54:09.759 --> 00:54:10.079
 in their

00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:10.519
 attendance,

00:54:10.739 --> 00:54:11.000
 and more

00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:11.639
 attentive to

00:54:11.639 --> 00:54:12.400
 the exercises.

00:54:13.079 --> 00:54:13.420
 And they

00:54:13.420 --> 00:54:13.759
 found their

00:54:13.759 --> 00:54:14.099
 teacher,

00:54:14.259 --> 00:54:14.460
 quote,

00:54:14.699 --> 00:54:15.279
 active,

00:54:15.699 --> 00:54:16.159
 energetic,

00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:16.619
 and

00:54:16.619 --> 00:54:17.199
 intelligent.

00:54:18.199 --> 00:54:18.819
 Reflecting

00:54:18.819 --> 00:54:19.440
 upon,

00:54:19.639 --> 00:54:19.899
 quote,

00:54:19.980 --> 00:54:21.619
 her capability

00:54:21.619 --> 00:54:22.460
 and the

00:54:22.460 --> 00:54:23.500
 trying nature

00:54:23.500 --> 00:54:23.839
 of her

00:54:23.839 --> 00:54:24.339
 duties,

00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:25.779
 the committee

00:54:25.779 --> 00:54:27.079
 recommended

00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:27.920
 an immediate

00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:28.699
 raise in

00:54:28.699 --> 00:54:29.359
 her salary

00:54:29.359 --> 00:54:31.000
 by 25%

00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:32.219
 to $250

00:54:32.219 --> 00:54:33.079
 a year.

00:54:33.759 --> 00:54:34.239
 Indeed,

00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:35.539
 indeed,

00:54:35.779 --> 00:54:36.420
 I say.

00:54:38.619 --> 00:54:39.339
 Betsy's

00:54:39.339 --> 00:54:39.859
 reputation

00:54:39.859 --> 00:54:40.199
 as a

00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:41.139
 teacher grew

00:54:41.139 --> 00:54:41.679
 during her

00:54:41.679 --> 00:54:42.219
 tenure at

00:54:42.219 --> 00:54:43.259
 the Gatskill

00:54:43.259 --> 00:54:44.159
 Street Infant

00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:44.480
 School,

00:54:44.480 --> 00:54:45.460
 beyond the

00:54:45.460 --> 00:54:45.940
 bounds of

00:54:45.940 --> 00:54:46.420
 Philadelphia.

00:54:46.420 --> 00:54:47.159
 And in

00:54:47.159 --> 00:54:48.260
 April 1829,

00:54:48.460 --> 00:54:49.000
 it seemed

00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:49.440
 she was

00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:49.980
 headhunted.

00:54:50.980 --> 00:54:51.880
 A Methodist

00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:52.320
 missionary,

00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:53.360
 William Case,

00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:54.880
 there he

00:54:54.880 --> 00:54:55.240
 is,

00:54:56.900 --> 00:54:58.440
 sought to

00:54:58.440 --> 00:54:59.059
 establish

00:54:59.059 --> 00:55:00.420
 similar infant

00:55:00.420 --> 00:55:01.579
 schools among

00:55:01.579 --> 00:55:02.139
 the Native

00:55:02.139 --> 00:55:03.260
 Americans in

00:55:03.260 --> 00:55:04.280
 the wilds of

00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:04.760
 Canada,

00:55:05.420 --> 00:55:06.240
 and sought

00:55:06.240 --> 00:55:06.940
 Betsy's

00:55:06.940 --> 00:55:08.360
 expertise in

00:55:08.360 --> 00:55:09.420
 this venture.

00:55:09.420 --> 00:55:09.480
 mother.

00:55:11.059 --> 00:55:12.059
 Once again,

00:55:12.420 --> 00:55:13.820
 we wish we

00:55:13.820 --> 00:55:14.360
 had more

00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:15.079
 access to

00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:15.700
 her mind

00:55:15.700 --> 00:55:16.079
 in this

00:55:16.079 --> 00:55:16.639
 matter.

00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:18.260
 Was it

00:55:18.260 --> 00:55:18.760
 the missionary

00:55:18.760 --> 00:55:19.480
 motive that

00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:20.139
 allured her?

00:55:20.980 --> 00:55:21.980
 She leaves

00:55:21.980 --> 00:55:22.480
 us no

00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:23.099
 record at

00:55:23.099 --> 00:55:23.880
 all of

00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:24.559
 her thoughts,

00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:25.420
 but in

00:55:25.420 --> 00:55:26.059
 any case,

00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:27.119
 she quitted

00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:27.960
 the classroom

00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:29.000
 in Philadelphia,

00:55:29.619 --> 00:55:30.360
 perhaps a

00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:30.659
 leave of

00:55:30.659 --> 00:55:31.139
 absence,

00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:32.659
 and headed

00:55:32.659 --> 00:55:33.000
 to the

00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:33.539
 shores of

00:55:33.539 --> 00:55:33.960
 Grape

00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:35.180
 Island on

00:55:35.180 --> 00:55:35.680
 the Canadian

00:55:35.680 --> 00:55:36.300
 side of

00:55:36.300 --> 00:55:37.139
 Lake Ontario.

00:55:37.139 --> 00:55:37.519
 I mean,

00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:37.839
 this is

00:55:37.839 --> 00:55:38.799
 the wilds

00:55:38.799 --> 00:55:39.460
 with Native

00:55:39.460 --> 00:55:41.059
 American boys,

00:55:41.319 --> 00:55:42.440
 and establishes

00:55:42.440 --> 00:55:43.319
 an infant

00:55:43.319 --> 00:55:44.619
 school among

00:55:44.619 --> 00:55:46.339
 the natives.

00:55:48.199 --> 00:55:48.920
 And it

00:55:48.920 --> 00:55:50.239
 seems to

00:55:50.239 --> 00:55:50.599
 have gone

00:55:50.599 --> 00:55:51.279
 really,

00:55:51.379 --> 00:55:51.819
 really well.

00:55:52.900 --> 00:55:53.759
 But then,

00:55:53.900 --> 00:55:54.759
 equally unknown

00:55:54.759 --> 00:55:56.000
 is why she

00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:56.659
 returned.

00:55:57.420 --> 00:55:58.019
 For within

00:55:58.019 --> 00:55:59.099
 six months,

00:55:59.819 --> 00:56:00.639
 she was back

00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:00.940
 at the

00:56:00.940 --> 00:56:01.879
 Gaskell School

00:56:01.879 --> 00:56:02.879
 carrying on

00:56:02.879 --> 00:56:03.219
 where she

00:56:03.219 --> 00:56:03.639
 left off.

00:56:03.699 --> 00:56:03.980
 Maybe it was

00:56:03.980 --> 00:56:04.440
 just a leave

00:56:04.440 --> 00:56:04.940
 of absence

00:56:04.940 --> 00:56:05.299
 that they

00:56:05.299 --> 00:56:05.579
 gave her.

00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:06.239
 We don't

00:56:06.239 --> 00:56:06.440
 know.

00:56:07.139 --> 00:56:09.059
 The school

00:56:09.059 --> 00:56:09.539
 and its

00:56:09.539 --> 00:56:10.480
 infant students

00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:11.219
 continued to

00:56:11.219 --> 00:56:12.179
 flourish back

00:56:12.179 --> 00:56:12.779
 in Philadelphia

00:56:12.779 --> 00:56:13.659
 when she

00:56:13.659 --> 00:56:14.199
 was back,

00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:15.099
 and one

00:56:15.099 --> 00:56:15.679
 might easily

00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:16.279
 have imagined

00:56:16.279 --> 00:56:17.379
 Betsy making

00:56:17.379 --> 00:56:17.960
 it the

00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:18.299
 site of

00:56:18.299 --> 00:56:18.859
 her continued

00:56:18.859 --> 00:56:19.579
 labors.

00:56:20.059 --> 00:56:20.339
 It was an

00:56:20.339 --> 00:56:20.879
 extraordinary

00:56:20.879 --> 00:56:21.639
 impact.

00:56:22.579 --> 00:56:22.819
 But,

00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:23.819
 as had been

00:56:23.819 --> 00:56:24.319
 the case

00:56:24.319 --> 00:56:25.000
 in the

00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:25.440
 Hawaii

00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:25.940
 mission,

00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:27.319
 her adopted

00:56:27.319 --> 00:56:28.519
 kin and

00:56:28.519 --> 00:56:29.059
 the fate

00:56:29.059 --> 00:56:30.259
 of Harriet

00:56:30.259 --> 00:56:31.719
 intervened.

00:56:33.039 --> 00:56:33.379
 Harriet

00:56:33.379 --> 00:56:34.659
 finally and

00:56:34.659 --> 00:56:35.699
 sadly slipped

00:56:35.699 --> 00:56:36.699
 away September

00:56:36.699 --> 00:56:37.339
 6th,

00:56:37.339 --> 00:56:38.079
 1830,

00:56:38.519 --> 00:56:39.359
 leaving three

00:56:39.359 --> 00:56:39.919
 children

00:56:39.919 --> 00:56:40.579
 motherless.

00:56:41.619 --> 00:56:41.879
 Well,

00:56:41.939 --> 00:56:42.599
 not entirely,

00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:43.619
 for within

00:56:43.619 --> 00:56:44.179
 the month,

00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:45.480
 Betsy resigned

00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:46.319
 her post at

00:56:46.319 --> 00:56:47.679
 Gaskell to

00:56:47.679 --> 00:56:48.279
 take her

00:56:48.279 --> 00:56:49.239
 adopted children

00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:50.259
 under wing.

00:56:51.619 --> 00:56:52.759
 Children across

00:56:52.759 --> 00:56:54.419
 Philadelphia wept

00:56:54.419 --> 00:56:55.299
 at the loss,

00:56:55.699 --> 00:56:56.480
 but the

00:56:56.480 --> 00:56:57.279
 Stewart children

00:56:57.279 --> 00:56:58.759
 wept for joy

00:56:58.759 --> 00:57:00.019
 at the comforting

00:57:00.019 --> 00:57:01.319
 sight of

00:57:01.319 --> 00:57:02.119
 Aunt B,

00:57:02.279 --> 00:57:02.859
 as they called

00:57:02.859 --> 00:57:03.039
 her,

00:57:03.439 --> 00:57:04.119
 arriving,

00:57:04.379 --> 00:57:05.079
 Aunt Betsy.

00:57:05.079 --> 00:57:10.599
 Betsy gathered

00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:11.179
 the children

00:57:11.179 --> 00:57:12.019
 and bundled

00:57:12.019 --> 00:57:12.619
 them off to

00:57:12.619 --> 00:57:13.059
 Princeton.

00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:15.460
 And this is

00:57:15.460 --> 00:57:16.159
 right at the

00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:17.460
 same year,

00:57:17.659 --> 00:57:18.139
 that's a print

00:57:18.139 --> 00:57:18.639
 taken at the

00:57:18.639 --> 00:57:19.360
 very same year

00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:19.659
 that she

00:57:19.659 --> 00:57:20.920
 returned there.

00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:22.539
 So,

00:57:22.799 --> 00:57:23.539
 and why not?

00:57:23.619 --> 00:57:24.319
 Is that not a

00:57:24.319 --> 00:57:24.699
 lovely,

00:57:24.980 --> 00:57:25.239
 lovely,

00:57:25.380 --> 00:57:25.880
 excuse me,

00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:26.179
 okay?

00:57:26.539 --> 00:57:27.119
 My wife is

00:57:27.119 --> 00:57:27.619
 kicking me under

00:57:27.619 --> 00:57:27.960
 the table.

00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:28.420
 Okay.

00:57:28.420 --> 00:57:32.320
 She returned

00:57:32.320 --> 00:57:32.900
 to her original

00:57:32.900 --> 00:57:33.280
 home.

00:57:33.720 --> 00:57:34.519
 Ashbell Green

00:57:34.519 --> 00:57:35.740
 was no longer

00:57:35.740 --> 00:57:36.059
 there,

00:57:36.260 --> 00:57:36.960
 but his son

00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:37.740
 James,

00:57:37.900 --> 00:57:38.460
 who had been

00:57:38.460 --> 00:57:39.019
 her tutor

00:57:39.019 --> 00:57:39.800
 in youth,

00:57:39.860 --> 00:57:40.280
 you recall,

00:57:40.420 --> 00:57:40.820
 was.

00:57:41.480 --> 00:57:41.860
 And their

00:57:41.860 --> 00:57:42.740
 fast friendship

00:57:42.740 --> 00:57:44.059
 added special

00:57:44.059 --> 00:57:44.820
 sweetness to

00:57:44.820 --> 00:57:45.960
 that season

00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:46.960
 of life

00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:47.599
 for Betsy.

00:57:48.599 --> 00:57:49.320
 The Stewart

00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:50.220
 children would

00:57:50.220 --> 00:57:51.019
 remain in her

00:57:51.019 --> 00:57:52.240
 care five years

00:57:52.240 --> 00:57:53.559
 until Charles,

00:57:53.659 --> 00:57:54.159
 their father,

00:57:54.300 --> 00:57:55.460
 remarried and

00:57:55.460 --> 00:57:56.039
 came down to

00:57:56.039 --> 00:57:56.619
 collect them and

00:57:56.619 --> 00:57:57.220
 move them back

00:57:57.219 --> 00:57:58.000
 up to New

00:57:58.000 --> 00:57:58.279
 York.

00:57:59.179 --> 00:57:59.859
 And then,

00:58:00.399 --> 00:58:01.059
 for the first

00:58:01.059 --> 00:58:01.599
 time in her

00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:01.939
 life,

00:58:02.339 --> 00:58:03.439
 Betsy lived

00:58:03.439 --> 00:58:03.819
 alone.

00:58:05.259 --> 00:58:06.500
 A sorrowful

00:58:06.500 --> 00:58:08.179
 episode stains

00:58:08.179 --> 00:58:08.939
 this period.

00:58:09.980 --> 00:58:10.739
 Her home

00:58:10.739 --> 00:58:11.339
 church,

00:58:11.819 --> 00:58:12.199
 the First

00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:13.099
 Presbyterian,

00:58:13.419 --> 00:58:13.939
 remember the

00:58:13.939 --> 00:58:14.379
 one in which

00:58:14.379 --> 00:58:14.759
 she had been

00:58:14.759 --> 00:58:15.659
 baptized and

00:58:15.659 --> 00:58:16.039
 become a

00:58:16.039 --> 00:58:16.259
 member,

00:58:16.919 --> 00:58:17.539
 First Presbyterian

00:58:17.539 --> 00:58:17.980
 of Princeton,

00:58:18.379 --> 00:58:19.159
 sadly became

00:58:19.159 --> 00:58:20.339
 the painful

00:58:20.339 --> 00:58:21.859
 site of a

00:58:21.859 --> 00:58:22.939
 deep failure

00:58:22.939 --> 00:58:23.659
 of Christian

00:58:23.659 --> 00:58:24.259
 love.

00:58:26.659 --> 00:58:26.899
 Their

00:58:26.900 --> 00:58:28.059
 there it

00:58:28.059 --> 00:58:28.320
 is.

00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:32.880
 While the

00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:33.160
 church

00:58:33.160 --> 00:58:34.280
 accepted

00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:35.039
 black

00:58:35.039 --> 00:58:35.539
 members,

00:58:35.680 --> 00:58:35.820
 and you

00:58:35.820 --> 00:58:36.079
 remember

00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:36.740
 Betsy

00:58:36.740 --> 00:58:37.440
 Stockton

00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:37.860
 was one

00:58:37.860 --> 00:58:38.200
 of them,

00:58:39.639 --> 00:58:40.220
 coloreds,

00:58:40.240 --> 00:58:40.460
 as they

00:58:40.460 --> 00:58:40.860
 call them,

00:58:41.180 --> 00:58:42.099
 were relegated

00:58:42.099 --> 00:58:42.740
 to a

00:58:42.740 --> 00:58:44.820
 segregated

00:58:44.820 --> 00:58:45.800
 seating up

00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:46.019
 in the

00:58:46.019 --> 00:58:46.340
 balcony.

00:58:46.720 --> 00:58:47.059
 They all

00:58:47.059 --> 00:58:47.420
 had to

00:58:47.420 --> 00:58:48.000
 sit alone

00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:49.079
 apart from

00:58:49.079 --> 00:58:49.519
 the whites.

00:58:51.579 --> 00:58:52.200
 Then in

00:58:52.200 --> 00:58:53.039
 1835,

00:58:53.539 --> 00:58:54.099
 the church

00:58:54.099 --> 00:58:54.960
 burned down.

00:58:54.960 --> 00:58:57.059
 during the

00:58:57.059 --> 00:58:57.900
 reconstruction,

00:58:58.599 --> 00:58:59.119
 the whites

00:58:59.119 --> 00:58:59.400
 and the

00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:00.019
 blacks found

00:59:00.019 --> 00:59:00.519
 temporary

00:59:00.519 --> 00:59:01.240
 refuge in

00:59:01.240 --> 00:59:01.619
 different

00:59:01.619 --> 00:59:02.199
 buildings.

00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:02.820
 So the

00:59:02.820 --> 00:59:03.500
 whites went

00:59:03.500 --> 00:59:04.800
 to the

00:59:04.800 --> 00:59:05.619
 chapel at

00:59:05.619 --> 00:59:06.380
 the seminary

00:59:06.380 --> 00:59:06.559
 there,

00:59:06.659 --> 00:59:06.900
 Princeton

00:59:06.900 --> 00:59:07.579
 Seminary,

00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:08.659
 and there

00:59:08.659 --> 00:59:09.960
 blacks were

00:59:09.960 --> 00:59:10.440
 not allowed.

00:59:11.659 --> 00:59:12.599
 So the

00:59:12.599 --> 00:59:13.079
 blacks just

00:59:13.079 --> 00:59:13.519
 had another

00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:14.099
 little spot

00:59:14.099 --> 00:59:15.340
 that the

00:59:15.340 --> 00:59:16.079
 coloreds would.

00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:18.759
 But then

00:59:18.759 --> 00:59:19.199
 once the

00:59:19.199 --> 00:59:19.500
 new

00:59:19.500 --> 00:59:20.039
 construction

00:59:20.039 --> 00:59:20.440
 of their

00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:20.960
 church

00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:23.059
 was

00:59:23.059 --> 00:59:24.000
 complete,

00:59:24.759 --> 00:59:25.279
 the white

00:59:25.279 --> 00:59:26.059
 members

00:59:26.059 --> 00:59:27.139
 declared the

00:59:27.139 --> 00:59:27.500
 new

00:59:27.500 --> 00:59:28.239
 sanctuary

00:59:28.239 --> 00:59:29.179
 a whites

00:59:29.179 --> 00:59:30.000
 only,

00:59:30.940 --> 00:59:31.679
 denying their

00:59:31.679 --> 00:59:32.259
 black sisters

00:59:32.259 --> 00:59:32.739
 and brothers

00:59:32.739 --> 00:59:33.239
 in Christ

00:59:33.239 --> 00:59:34.199
 access to

00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:34.659
 their

00:59:34.659 --> 00:59:35.139
 church.

00:59:37.219 --> 00:59:38.239
 Here was

00:59:38.239 --> 00:59:38.579
 their

00:59:38.579 --> 00:59:39.219
 interim

00:59:39.219 --> 00:59:39.779
 pastor,

00:59:39.780 --> 00:59:45.440
 and he

00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:46.840
 writes,

00:59:47.460 --> 00:59:47.840
 this is

00:59:47.840 --> 00:59:48.840
 James W.

00:59:48.960 --> 00:59:49.660
 James Waddle

00:59:49.660 --> 00:59:50.900
 Alexander of

00:59:50.900 --> 00:59:51.840
 Princeton Seminary

00:59:51.840 --> 00:59:52.380
 fame,

00:59:52.980 --> 00:59:54.040
 great theologian

00:59:54.040 --> 00:59:54.519
 and pastor.

00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:55.900
 He writes,

00:59:56.360 --> 00:59:57.040
 I think

00:59:57.040 --> 00:59:57.980
 blacks are

00:59:57.980 --> 00:59:59.000
 very unwise

00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:00.080
 in insisting

01:00:00.080 --> 01:00:00.780
 on such

01:00:00.780 --> 01:00:01.440
 a privilege

01:00:01.440 --> 01:00:01.940
 now.

01:00:03.940 --> 01:00:04.660
 Well,

01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:05.320
 denied that

01:00:05.320 --> 01:00:06.680
 privilege

01:00:06.680 --> 01:00:08.260
 of being

01:00:08.260 --> 01:00:08.519
 in their

01:00:08.519 --> 01:00:08.699
 own

01:00:08.699 --> 01:00:09.079
 church,

01:00:10.119 --> 01:00:12.280
 of

01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:12.800
 returning

01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:13.099
 to their

01:00:13.099 --> 01:00:13.480
 church

01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:13.840
 home.

01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:15.039
 A majority

01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:15.380
 of the

01:00:15.380 --> 01:00:15.619
 black

01:00:15.619 --> 01:00:16.039
 members

01:00:16.039 --> 01:00:16.380
 formed

01:00:16.380 --> 01:00:16.559
 their

01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:16.800
 own

01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:17.380
 congregation,

01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:18.420
 which in

01:00:18.420 --> 01:00:19.239
 1840

01:00:19.239 --> 01:00:20.239
 became the

01:00:20.239 --> 01:00:21.239
 first Presbyterian

01:00:21.239 --> 01:00:21.679
 church of

01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:22.440
 color of

01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:22.780
 Princeton,

01:00:23.519 --> 01:00:24.259
 later called

01:00:24.259 --> 01:00:25.099
 the Witherspoon

01:00:25.099 --> 01:00:25.800
 Street Church.

01:00:27.219 --> 01:00:27.800
 There it

01:00:27.800 --> 01:00:28.159
 is,

01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:29.139
 or was.

01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:30.199
 It's still

01:00:30.199 --> 01:00:30.559
 there today,

01:00:30.659 --> 01:00:31.099
 it doesn't

01:00:31.099 --> 01:00:31.420
 look like

01:00:31.420 --> 01:00:31.860
 that anymore.

01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:37.920
 Betsy's

01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:39.200
 name topped

01:00:39.200 --> 01:00:39.659
 the list

01:00:39.659 --> 01:00:40.240
 of founding

01:00:40.240 --> 01:00:41.139
 members of

01:00:41.139 --> 01:00:41.700
 the Witherspoon

01:00:41.700 --> 01:00:43.019
 Street Church,

01:00:43.260 --> 01:00:43.860
 and she

01:00:43.860 --> 01:00:44.720
 quickly brought

01:00:44.720 --> 01:00:45.519
 her vision

01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:46.559
 and gifts

01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:47.099
 to bear,

01:00:47.500 --> 01:00:48.059
 making the

01:00:48.059 --> 01:00:48.960
 new church

01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:50.519
 a haven

01:00:50.519 --> 01:00:51.539
 in Princeton

01:00:51.539 --> 01:00:52.800
 for religious

01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:54.500
 and general

01:00:54.500 --> 01:00:55.639
 instruction.

01:00:56.820 --> 01:00:57.380
 In fact,

01:00:57.840 --> 01:00:58.180
 Reverend

01:00:58.180 --> 01:00:58.740
 Professor

01:00:58.740 --> 01:00:59.420
 Alexander,

01:00:59.619 --> 01:00:59.860
 who had

01:00:59.860 --> 01:01:00.300
 made that

01:01:00.300 --> 01:01:00.900
 comment that

01:01:00.900 --> 01:01:01.579
 best stay

01:01:01.579 --> 01:01:02.079
 separate,

01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:04.579
 who himself

01:01:04.579 --> 01:01:05.139
 had helped

01:01:05.139 --> 01:01:05.699
 to thrust

01:01:05.699 --> 01:01:06.119
 the black

01:01:06.119 --> 01:01:07.019
 members out,

01:01:07.639 --> 01:01:08.119
 paid them

01:01:08.119 --> 01:01:08.819
 a visit,

01:01:09.779 --> 01:01:10.559
 and lamented,

01:01:10.920 --> 01:01:11.239
 quote,

01:01:11.920 --> 01:01:12.420
 yesterday,

01:01:13.159 --> 01:01:14.039
 I examined

01:01:14.039 --> 01:01:15.199
 Betsy Stockton's

01:01:15.199 --> 01:01:15.519
 school.

01:01:16.519 --> 01:01:17.460
 I wish I

01:01:17.460 --> 01:01:18.219
 knew of a

01:01:18.219 --> 01:01:18.920
 white school

01:01:18.920 --> 01:01:20.059
 where religion

01:01:20.059 --> 01:01:20.839
 was so

01:01:20.839 --> 01:01:21.500
 faithfully

01:01:21.500 --> 01:01:22.239
 inculcated.

01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:26.439
 he wished,

01:01:26.839 --> 01:01:27.599
 I guess he

01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:28.139
 was blind

01:01:28.139 --> 01:01:28.439
 to the

01:01:28.439 --> 01:01:28.719
 simple

01:01:28.719 --> 01:01:29.299
 and scriptural

01:01:29.299 --> 01:01:29.839
 solution,

01:01:30.559 --> 01:01:31.399
 stop the

01:01:31.399 --> 01:01:32.439
 racial separation,

01:01:32.899 --> 01:01:33.819
 and together

01:01:33.819 --> 01:01:35.039
 enjoy the

01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:35.739
 diversity of

01:01:35.739 --> 01:01:36.299
 gifts and

01:01:36.299 --> 01:01:36.799
 their blessing.

01:01:37.859 --> 01:01:38.299
 Father,

01:01:38.439 --> 01:01:38.899
 forgive us

01:01:38.899 --> 01:01:39.839
 our trespasses.

01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:45.079
 Betsy also

01:01:45.079 --> 01:01:45.859
 exercised her

01:01:45.859 --> 01:01:46.439
 teaching gifts

01:01:46.439 --> 01:01:47.619
 outside the

01:01:47.619 --> 01:01:47.859
 church,

01:01:47.959 --> 01:01:48.679
 establishing in

01:01:48.679 --> 01:01:49.519
 1837,

01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:50.400
 the sole

01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:50.940
 public,

01:01:51.059 --> 01:01:51.280
 or what

01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:51.599
 they called

01:01:51.599 --> 01:01:52.599
 common school

01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:53.500
 for black

01:01:53.500 --> 01:01:53.880
 children,

01:01:54.199 --> 01:01:54.719
 and pouring

01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:55.539
 into it

01:01:55.539 --> 01:01:56.259
 the energies

01:01:56.259 --> 01:01:56.820
 of nearly

01:01:56.820 --> 01:01:57.920
 30 years

01:01:57.920 --> 01:01:58.360
 that would

01:01:58.360 --> 01:01:59.420
 remain to

01:01:59.420 --> 01:01:59.639
 her.

01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:02.980
 There is

01:02:02.980 --> 01:02:04.340
 the black

01:02:04.340 --> 01:02:04.659
 school.

01:02:04.860 --> 01:02:07.619
 It was hard

01:02:07.619 --> 01:02:08.739
 to get that

01:02:08.739 --> 01:02:09.059
 picture.

01:02:09.780 --> 01:02:10.159
 Either that

01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:10.739
 or the

01:02:10.739 --> 01:02:11.079
 extraordinary

01:02:11.079 --> 01:02:11.619
 circumstance

01:02:11.619 --> 01:02:12.179
 of actually

01:02:12.179 --> 01:02:12.559
 it being

01:02:12.559 --> 01:02:12.960
 photographed

01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:13.380
 while it

01:02:13.380 --> 01:02:13.659
 was being

01:02:13.659 --> 01:02:13.920
 struck

01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:14.360
 by lightning.

01:02:14.759 --> 01:02:15.139
 One of

01:02:15.139 --> 01:02:15.420
 the two.

01:02:15.559 --> 01:02:15.759
 I don't

01:02:15.759 --> 01:02:15.920
 know.

01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:18.039
 But

01:02:18.039 --> 01:02:20.860
 with

01:02:20.860 --> 01:02:21.559
 enrollments

01:02:21.559 --> 01:02:22.119
 often as

01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:22.500
 high as

01:02:22.500 --> 01:02:23.759
 70 students,

01:02:24.900 --> 01:02:25.159
 Betsy

01:02:25.159 --> 01:02:25.980
 provided the

01:02:25.980 --> 01:02:26.659
 benefit of

01:02:26.659 --> 01:02:27.340
 an education

01:02:27.340 --> 01:02:29.360
 to generations

01:02:29.360 --> 01:02:30.320
 of black

01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:31.920
 families at

01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:32.340
 Princeton.

01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:34.860
 Here is a

01:02:34.860 --> 01:02:36.840
 period colored

01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:37.279
 school,

01:02:37.860 --> 01:02:39.619
 not Betsy's,

01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:40.699
 but the

01:02:40.699 --> 01:02:41.360
 same period.

01:02:41.820 --> 01:02:42.340
 From the

01:02:42.340 --> 01:02:42.639
 same period,

01:02:42.679 --> 01:02:42.980
 that's the

01:02:42.980 --> 01:02:43.360
 one picture

01:02:43.360 --> 01:02:43.619
 that I

01:02:43.619 --> 01:02:44.039
 could find.

01:02:44.039 --> 01:02:48.279
 Additionally,

01:02:48.800 --> 01:02:50.679
 she persuaded

01:02:50.679 --> 01:02:52.279
 a student

01:02:52.279 --> 01:02:52.739
 at Princeton

01:02:52.739 --> 01:02:53.219
 Seminary,

01:02:53.340 --> 01:02:54.139
 Louis Mudge,

01:02:54.360 --> 01:02:55.159
 to open a

01:02:55.159 --> 01:02:55.739
 night school

01:02:55.739 --> 01:02:56.380
 for young

01:02:56.380 --> 01:02:57.039
 black men

01:02:57.039 --> 01:02:57.420
 and women

01:02:57.420 --> 01:02:58.039
 who were

01:02:58.039 --> 01:02:58.619
 employed

01:02:58.619 --> 01:02:59.259
 during the

01:02:59.259 --> 01:03:00.019
 day and

01:03:00.019 --> 01:03:00.779
 so unable

01:03:00.779 --> 01:03:01.480
 to attend

01:03:01.480 --> 01:03:02.159
 common

01:03:02.159 --> 01:03:02.579
 school.

01:03:03.579 --> 01:03:04.019
 There are

01:03:04.019 --> 01:03:04.820
 stories of

01:03:04.820 --> 01:03:05.480
 Betsy and

01:03:05.480 --> 01:03:05.940
 Mudge

01:03:05.940 --> 01:03:07.800
 staying late

01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:09.079
 and enthusiastically

01:03:09.079 --> 01:03:10.579
 reading Caesar's

01:03:10.579 --> 01:03:11.860
 Gallic Wars

01:03:11.860 --> 01:03:12.820
 to each

01:03:12.820 --> 01:03:13.820
 other in

01:03:13.820 --> 01:03:14.220
 Latin.

01:03:14.980 --> 01:03:15.420
 Betsy was

01:03:15.420 --> 01:03:16.079
 really a good

01:03:16.079 --> 01:03:16.599
 Latinist,

01:03:16.720 --> 01:03:17.340
 as are some

01:03:17.340 --> 01:03:17.840
 in this room,

01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:18.440
 I see.

01:03:20.519 --> 01:03:21.400
 By this

01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:21.800
 time,

01:03:22.700 --> 01:03:23.300
 she was

01:03:23.300 --> 01:03:24.099
 known by

01:03:24.099 --> 01:03:25.059
 nearly all

01:03:25.059 --> 01:03:25.620
 in town

01:03:25.620 --> 01:03:26.980
 as Aunt

01:03:26.980 --> 01:03:28.280
 Betsy and

01:03:28.280 --> 01:03:28.820
 came to be

01:03:28.820 --> 01:03:29.579
 admired as

01:03:29.579 --> 01:03:30.480
 one of

01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:31.079
 Princeton's

01:03:31.079 --> 01:03:32.019
 most beloved

01:03:32.019 --> 01:03:32.820
 figures.

01:03:34.079 --> 01:03:34.660
 Unassuming,

01:03:35.960 --> 01:03:36.480
 gentle in

01:03:36.480 --> 01:03:36.840
 spirit,

01:03:37.640 --> 01:03:37.960
 yet

01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:39.140
 indomitable,

01:03:40.280 --> 01:03:41.140
 she exercised

01:03:41.139 --> 01:03:42.039
 a steady,

01:03:42.359 --> 01:03:43.420
 salty influence,

01:03:43.900 --> 01:03:44.359
 particularly

01:03:44.359 --> 01:03:44.920
 among the

01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:45.179
 young.

01:03:47.099 --> 01:03:47.659
 It would

01:03:47.659 --> 01:03:48.819
 seem the

01:03:48.819 --> 01:03:49.159
 missionary

01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:50.139
 impulse never

01:03:50.139 --> 01:03:50.659
 left her.

01:03:51.619 --> 01:03:52.119
 There was a

01:03:52.119 --> 01:03:53.079
 plan in the

01:03:53.079 --> 01:03:53.859
 making for

01:03:53.859 --> 01:03:54.159
 her to

01:03:54.159 --> 01:03:55.219
 actually accompany

01:03:55.219 --> 01:03:55.739
 a missionary

01:03:55.739 --> 01:03:56.559
 couple to

01:03:56.559 --> 01:03:57.099
 the island

01:03:57.099 --> 01:03:57.759
 of Carisco,

01:03:58.079 --> 01:03:58.579
 that's just

01:03:58.579 --> 01:03:59.179
 off the

01:03:59.179 --> 01:03:59.859
 west coast

01:03:59.859 --> 01:04:01.179
 of Africa,

01:04:01.359 --> 01:04:01.879
 right around

01:04:01.879 --> 01:04:02.559
 Equatorial

01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:03.239
 Guinea or

01:04:03.239 --> 01:04:04.059
 so.

01:04:05.099 --> 01:04:06.019
 Perhaps one

01:04:06.019 --> 01:04:06.500
 could imagine

01:04:06.500 --> 01:04:07.339
 in fulfillment

01:04:07.339 --> 01:04:07.659
 of her

01:04:07.659 --> 01:04:08.139
 earliest

01:04:08.139 --> 01:04:08.559
 missionary

01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:09.219
 dream to

01:04:09.219 --> 01:04:09.599
 get to

01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:10.599
 Africa as

01:04:10.599 --> 01:04:11.000
 a missionary.

01:04:11.139 --> 01:04:12.119
 But it

01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:12.579
 did not

01:04:12.579 --> 01:04:13.039
 finally

01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:14.000
 materialize.

01:04:14.839 --> 01:04:15.279
 Although,

01:04:15.579 --> 01:04:16.059
 one of her

01:04:16.059 --> 01:04:16.960
 first women

01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:18.000
 teachers of

01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:18.519
 her Sabbath

01:04:18.519 --> 01:04:18.960
 school,

01:04:19.699 --> 01:04:20.420
 Cecilia Van

01:04:20.420 --> 01:04:20.839
 Tine,

01:04:21.199 --> 01:04:21.980
 did end up

01:04:21.980 --> 01:04:23.179
 going to

01:04:23.179 --> 01:04:23.859
 Rio de Janeiro

01:04:23.859 --> 01:04:24.379
 as a

01:04:24.379 --> 01:04:25.139
 missionary in

01:04:25.139 --> 01:04:25.819
 1848,

01:04:26.319 --> 01:04:26.779
 and it's

01:04:26.779 --> 01:04:27.619
 not hard to

01:04:27.619 --> 01:04:28.460
 trace Betsy's

01:04:28.460 --> 01:04:29.519
 influence upon

01:04:29.519 --> 01:04:29.759
 her.

01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:32.879
 But for

01:04:32.879 --> 01:04:34.079
 Betsy,

01:04:34.319 --> 01:04:35.519
 Princeton would

01:04:35.519 --> 01:04:36.099
 remain the

01:04:36.099 --> 01:04:36.719
 place of her

01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:37.679
 final labors,

01:04:38.460 --> 01:04:39.099
 and in so

01:04:39.099 --> 01:04:39.480
 doing,

01:04:39.480 --> 01:04:40.800
 she became

01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:42.099
 so greatly

01:04:42.099 --> 01:04:43.440
 loved that

01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:43.840
 when she

01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:44.260
 came to

01:04:44.260 --> 01:04:44.559
 die,

01:04:44.699 --> 01:04:45.599
 October 24,

01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:47.280
 1865,

01:04:48.159 --> 01:04:49.360
 she was

01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:50.240
 much missed

01:04:50.240 --> 01:04:51.240
 and much

01:04:51.240 --> 01:04:51.699
 mourned.

01:04:52.500 --> 01:04:53.099
 The president

01:04:53.099 --> 01:04:53.619
 of Princeton,

01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:54.539
 John McClain,

01:04:54.960 --> 01:04:55.780
 and the senior

01:04:55.780 --> 01:04:56.519
 professor of

01:04:56.519 --> 01:04:57.460
 theology at the

01:04:57.460 --> 01:04:57.980
 seminary,

01:04:58.920 --> 01:05:00.420
 Charles Hodge,

01:05:01.099 --> 01:05:01.579
 he would have

01:05:01.579 --> 01:05:02.840
 been considered

01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:03.300
 to be the

01:05:03.300 --> 01:05:04.099
 greatest American

01:05:04.099 --> 01:05:05.639
 theologian of

01:05:05.639 --> 01:05:06.099
 his day,

01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:07.460
 and wrote

01:05:07.460 --> 01:05:08.119
 the textbook

01:05:08.119 --> 01:05:08.699
 for all

01:05:08.699 --> 01:05:09.119
 theological

01:05:09.119 --> 01:05:09.639
 seminaries,

01:05:09.719 --> 01:05:10.039
 his three

01:05:10.039 --> 01:05:10.400
 volume

01:05:10.400 --> 01:05:11.679
 systematic

01:05:11.679 --> 01:05:12.279
 theology.

01:05:13.239 --> 01:05:14.139
 Charles Hodge

01:05:14.139 --> 01:05:15.279
 himself,

01:05:15.659 --> 01:05:16.159
 those two,

01:05:16.319 --> 01:05:17.000
 John McClain,

01:05:17.259 --> 01:05:18.339
 president of the

01:05:18.339 --> 01:05:18.699
 university,

01:05:18.799 --> 01:05:19.159
 and Charles

01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:19.480
 Hodge,

01:05:19.579 --> 01:05:19.940
 the chief

01:05:19.940 --> 01:05:20.940
 theologian at

01:05:20.940 --> 01:05:21.539
 the seminary,

01:05:22.179 --> 01:05:24.799
 they conducted

01:05:24.799 --> 01:05:25.420
 her funeral,

01:05:26.599 --> 01:05:27.359
 Betsy Stockton.

01:05:28.839 --> 01:05:29.699
 Some 30

01:05:29.699 --> 01:05:30.839
 years after

01:05:30.839 --> 01:05:31.460
 her death,

01:05:31.960 --> 01:05:32.359
 Charles

01:05:32.360 --> 01:05:33.220
 Seaforth

01:05:33.220 --> 01:05:33.700
 Stewart,

01:05:34.360 --> 01:05:34.940
 there he

01:05:34.940 --> 01:05:35.260
 is,

01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:37.360
 remember,

01:05:37.579 --> 01:05:39.840
 he was the

01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:40.420
 baby born

01:05:40.420 --> 01:05:41.059
 on board

01:05:41.059 --> 01:05:41.960
 ship,

01:05:42.260 --> 01:05:42.780
 that missionary

01:05:42.780 --> 01:05:43.320
 voyage,

01:05:43.780 --> 01:05:44.340
 and whom

01:05:44.340 --> 01:05:45.019
 she had

01:05:45.019 --> 01:05:45.599
 cared for

01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:45.920
 as a

01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:46.519
 second mother,

01:05:47.039 --> 01:05:47.940
 he proposed

01:05:47.940 --> 01:05:49.019
 that a

01:05:49.019 --> 01:05:49.740
 plaque be

01:05:49.740 --> 01:05:50.280
 placed in

01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:50.980
 Hawaii at

01:05:50.980 --> 01:05:51.440
 the site of

01:05:51.440 --> 01:05:51.840
 her missionary

01:05:51.840 --> 01:05:52.260
 work.

01:05:53.019 --> 01:05:53.900
 The proposal

01:05:53.900 --> 01:05:55.079
 was turned

01:05:55.079 --> 01:05:56.559
 down on

01:05:56.559 --> 01:05:57.280
 grounds that,

01:05:57.599 --> 01:05:57.620
 quote,

01:05:58.019 --> 01:05:58.480
 though she

01:05:58.480 --> 01:05:59.059
 did loyal

01:05:59.059 --> 01:05:59.660
 service,

01:06:00.539 --> 01:06:01.240
 she was but

01:06:01.240 --> 01:06:02.340
 one of many

01:06:02.340 --> 01:06:02.600
 at the

01:06:02.600 --> 01:06:02.940
 time.

01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:04.620
 Well,

01:06:04.680 --> 01:06:05.140
 no doubt

01:06:05.140 --> 01:06:06.220
 this was

01:06:06.220 --> 01:06:06.559
 true.

01:06:07.260 --> 01:06:08.039
 No doubt

01:06:08.039 --> 01:06:08.660
 there are

01:06:08.660 --> 01:06:09.700
 many who

01:06:09.700 --> 01:06:10.460
 do loyal

01:06:10.460 --> 01:06:11.079
 service,

01:06:11.579 --> 01:06:12.420
 and they

01:06:12.420 --> 01:06:12.860
 have no

01:06:12.860 --> 01:06:13.559
 memorial here

01:06:13.559 --> 01:06:13.900
 below.

01:06:15.019 --> 01:06:15.600
 Perhaps,

01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:16.079
 as with

01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:17.100
 Betsy Stockton,

01:06:17.760 --> 01:06:18.180
 much,

01:06:18.539 --> 01:06:19.140
 even all of

01:06:19.140 --> 01:06:19.780
 their story,

01:06:20.500 --> 01:06:21.120
 is unknown.

01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:24.440
 Well,

01:06:24.559 --> 01:06:25.039
 if in

01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:25.760
 Betsy's

01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:26.720
 case,

01:06:27.660 --> 01:06:28.300
 such

01:06:28.300 --> 01:06:28.980
 quiet,

01:06:29.600 --> 01:06:29.840
 loyal

01:06:29.840 --> 01:06:31.280
 service is

01:06:31.280 --> 01:06:31.780
 not judged

01:06:31.780 --> 01:06:32.220
 worthy of

01:06:32.219 --> 01:06:32.659
 a plaque,

01:06:33.379 --> 01:06:34.179
 never

01:06:34.179 --> 01:06:34.500
 mind,

01:06:35.239 --> 01:06:36.299
 I have

01:06:36.299 --> 01:06:36.799
 no doubt

01:06:36.799 --> 01:06:37.839
 that she

01:06:37.839 --> 01:06:38.859
 received a

01:06:38.859 --> 01:06:39.039
 better

01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:39.799
 commendation

01:06:39.799 --> 01:06:42.519
 on high

01:06:42.519 --> 01:06:44.319
 than a

01:06:44.319 --> 01:06:44.639
 plaque in

01:06:44.639 --> 01:06:45.000
 Hawaii.

01:06:46.859 --> 01:06:47.699
 Here is

01:06:47.699 --> 01:06:48.059
 a,

01:06:50.059 --> 01:06:51.379
 can't quite

01:06:51.379 --> 01:06:52.000
 see that,

01:06:52.519 --> 01:06:52.799
 but it

01:06:52.799 --> 01:06:52.980
 says,

01:06:53.139 --> 01:06:53.579
 presented

01:06:53.579 --> 01:06:55.099
 by the

01:06:55.099 --> 01:06:56.439
 scholars of

01:06:56.439 --> 01:06:57.480
 Elizabeth

01:06:57.480 --> 01:06:58.419
 Stockton.

01:06:58.420 --> 01:07:01.260
 all of

01:07:01.260 --> 01:07:02.099
 her black

01:07:02.099 --> 01:07:02.639
 students over

01:07:02.639 --> 01:07:03.059
 the years

01:07:03.059 --> 01:07:04.539
 paid to

01:07:04.539 --> 01:07:04.800
 have that

01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:05.159
 put in

01:07:05.159 --> 01:07:05.820
 in the

01:07:05.820 --> 01:07:06.280
 Witherspoon

01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:07.900
 street church.

01:07:09.180 --> 01:07:09.740
 Yeah.

01:07:10.500 --> 01:07:11.039
 Well,

01:07:11.159 --> 01:07:11.960
 perhaps a few

01:07:11.960 --> 01:07:12.500
 concluding

01:07:12.500 --> 01:07:14.000
 reflections are

01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:14.280
 in order.

01:07:16.940 --> 01:07:17.800
 We all have

01:07:17.800 --> 01:07:19.579
 losses in

01:07:19.579 --> 01:07:20.000
 this fallen

01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:20.420
 world.

01:07:22.139 --> 01:07:22.840
 Perhaps for

01:07:22.840 --> 01:07:23.460
 some of us,

01:07:23.800 --> 01:07:24.280
 they are

01:07:24.280 --> 01:07:24.720
 profound.

01:07:24.719 --> 01:07:27.039
 no doubt

01:07:27.039 --> 01:07:27.399
 many of

01:07:27.399 --> 01:07:27.679
 them are

01:07:27.679 --> 01:07:29.019
 known only

01:07:29.019 --> 01:07:29.579
 to us

01:07:29.579 --> 01:07:30.179
 and to

01:07:30.179 --> 01:07:30.459
 God.

01:07:31.739 --> 01:07:32.639
 It seems

01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:34.039
 Betsy had

01:07:34.039 --> 01:07:34.659
 many losses.

01:07:36.279 --> 01:07:37.019
 Think of

01:07:37.019 --> 01:07:37.859
 being separated

01:07:37.859 --> 01:07:38.339
 from her

01:07:38.339 --> 01:07:39.199
 birth parent

01:07:39.199 --> 01:07:40.619
 just as a

01:07:40.619 --> 01:07:41.519
 small girl,

01:07:42.799 --> 01:07:45.819
 not being

01:07:45.819 --> 01:07:46.359
 able to

01:07:46.359 --> 01:07:46.919
 turn to

01:07:46.919 --> 01:07:47.159
 her own

01:07:47.159 --> 01:07:47.519
 church,

01:07:48.519 --> 01:07:50.359
 no doubt

01:07:50.359 --> 01:07:50.859
 many of

01:07:50.859 --> 01:07:52.199
 which we

01:07:52.199 --> 01:07:52.539
 will never

01:07:52.539 --> 01:07:54.079
 know as

01:07:54.079 --> 01:07:54.719
 there remains

01:07:54.719 --> 01:07:55.980
 very little

01:07:55.980 --> 01:07:57.239
 of her

01:07:57.239 --> 01:07:58.019
 expression,

01:07:58.519 --> 01:07:59.039
 her interior

01:07:59.039 --> 01:07:59.480
 life.

01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:01.819
 But what

01:08:01.819 --> 01:08:02.439
 we do know

01:08:02.439 --> 01:08:03.419
 is that she

01:08:03.419 --> 01:08:04.159
 seems to

01:08:04.159 --> 01:08:05.719
 not have

01:08:05.719 --> 01:08:06.579
 dwelt upon

01:08:06.579 --> 01:08:07.199
 her losses,

01:08:07.919 --> 01:08:08.859
 but rather

01:08:08.859 --> 01:08:10.039
 took up the

01:08:10.039 --> 01:08:11.039
 blessings that

01:08:11.039 --> 01:08:11.679
 God had given

01:08:11.679 --> 01:08:12.099
 her in her

01:08:12.099 --> 01:08:13.000
 life and

01:08:13.000 --> 01:08:13.739
 built on

01:08:13.739 --> 01:08:14.359
 those.

01:08:15.259 --> 01:08:15.759
 And she

01:08:15.759 --> 01:08:16.500
 built very

01:08:16.500 --> 01:08:16.939
 diligently.

01:08:18.420 --> 01:08:19.239
 She seems

01:08:19.239 --> 01:08:19.739
 to have been

01:08:19.739 --> 01:08:21.279
 a really good

01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:21.939
 steward

01:08:21.939 --> 01:08:22.879
 of what

01:08:22.879 --> 01:08:23.239
 God had

01:08:23.239 --> 01:08:23.739
 given her

01:08:23.739 --> 01:08:24.819
 and used

01:08:24.819 --> 01:08:25.599
 those blessings,

01:08:26.039 --> 01:08:27.119
 developing them

01:08:27.119 --> 01:08:28.079
 that she

01:08:28.079 --> 01:08:28.819
 might be a

01:08:28.819 --> 01:08:29.500
 blessing to

01:08:29.500 --> 01:08:29.960
 others.

01:08:31.919 --> 01:08:32.659
 And this,

01:08:32.960 --> 01:08:33.259
 for me,

01:08:33.679 --> 01:08:34.519
 is much of

01:08:34.519 --> 01:08:35.379
 what glows

01:08:35.379 --> 01:08:35.739
 in her

01:08:35.739 --> 01:08:36.179
 life.

01:08:37.479 --> 01:08:37.879
 She didn't

01:08:37.879 --> 01:08:38.460
 become bitter

01:08:38.460 --> 01:08:39.759
 or despondent,

01:08:40.159 --> 01:08:41.199
 but rather

01:08:41.199 --> 01:08:42.339
 gave where she

01:08:42.339 --> 01:08:43.179
 had received

01:08:43.179 --> 01:08:44.539
 and did so

01:08:44.539 --> 01:08:46.079
 bravely and

01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:46.419
 with a

01:08:46.419 --> 01:08:47.039
 remarkable

01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:47.819
 spirit of

01:08:47.819 --> 01:08:48.719
 adventure and

01:08:48.719 --> 01:08:49.259
 sacrifice.

01:08:49.260 --> 01:08:49.500
 sacrifice.

01:08:52.020 --> 01:08:52.920
 We have

01:08:52.920 --> 01:08:54.020
 stated that

01:08:54.020 --> 01:08:54.640
 if the

01:08:54.640 --> 01:08:55.480
 affection and

01:08:55.480 --> 01:08:56.860
 care Betsy

01:08:56.860 --> 01:08:58.380
 knew cast

01:08:58.380 --> 01:08:59.560
 a warm glow

01:08:59.560 --> 01:09:00.420
 upon her

01:09:00.420 --> 01:09:01.300
 indentured

01:09:01.300 --> 01:09:02.020
 servitude,

01:09:03.020 --> 01:09:04.260
 surely it is

01:09:04.260 --> 01:09:05.400
 still a dark

01:09:05.400 --> 01:09:06.000
 landscape.

01:09:08.180 --> 01:09:09.220
 Slaves among

01:09:09.220 --> 01:09:09.760
 Christians?

01:09:09.760 --> 01:09:13.440
 neither can

01:09:13.440 --> 01:09:14.560
 we but be

01:09:14.560 --> 01:09:15.720
 horror-stricken

01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:17.280
 and heart-sick

01:09:17.280 --> 01:09:18.680
 at the thought

01:09:18.680 --> 01:09:19.039
 of a

01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:19.420
 white's

01:09:19.420 --> 01:09:20.199
 only sign

01:09:20.199 --> 01:09:21.900
 hanging on

01:09:21.900 --> 01:09:22.300
 a church

01:09:22.300 --> 01:09:22.699
 door.

01:09:25.699 --> 01:09:26.980
 That such

01:09:26.980 --> 01:09:28.000
 is utterly

01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:29.720
 incompatible

01:09:29.720 --> 01:09:31.020
 with the

01:09:31.020 --> 01:09:31.500
 gospel of

01:09:31.500 --> 01:09:31.920
 Christ

01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:33.659
 was somehow

01:09:33.659 --> 01:09:35.119
 not seen

01:09:35.119 --> 01:09:36.640
 by the

01:09:36.640 --> 01:09:36.880
 most

01:09:36.880 --> 01:09:37.779
 theologically

01:09:37.779 --> 01:09:38.699
 educated

01:09:38.699 --> 01:09:39.260
 people

01:09:39.260 --> 01:09:40.220
 in the

01:09:40.220 --> 01:09:40.960
 country.

01:09:45.220 --> 01:09:45.920
 I'm

01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:46.260
 struck

01:09:46.260 --> 01:09:47.460
 by the

01:09:47.460 --> 01:09:47.760
 need

01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:48.960
 for all

01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:49.199
 of us

01:09:49.199 --> 01:09:49.559
 to pray

01:09:49.559 --> 01:09:50.019
 as David

01:09:50.019 --> 01:09:50.340
 did.

01:09:51.439 --> 01:09:52.319
 Cleanse me

01:09:52.319 --> 01:09:52.720
 from my

01:09:52.720 --> 01:09:53.439
 hidden faults.

01:09:55.140 --> 01:09:56.039
 We all

01:09:56.039 --> 01:09:56.519
 have blind

01:09:56.519 --> 01:09:57.000
 spots,

01:09:58.420 --> 01:09:59.039
 grievous

01:09:59.039 --> 01:09:59.979
 failures

01:09:59.979 --> 01:10:01.059
 in loving

01:10:01.059 --> 01:10:01.640
 God and

01:10:01.640 --> 01:10:01.920
 neighbor,

01:10:02.880 --> 01:10:03.399
 brother and

01:10:03.399 --> 01:10:03.699
 sister.

01:10:03.699 --> 01:10:05.720
 far from

01:10:05.720 --> 01:10:06.460
 exposing

01:10:06.460 --> 01:10:07.019
 them,

01:10:07.539 --> 01:10:07.819
 our

01:10:07.819 --> 01:10:08.220
 Christian

01:10:08.220 --> 01:10:08.599
 culture

01:10:08.599 --> 01:10:08.960
 often

01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:09.880
 obscures

01:10:09.880 --> 01:10:10.279
 these

01:10:10.279 --> 01:10:10.639
 sins

01:10:10.639 --> 01:10:11.079
 from our

01:10:11.079 --> 01:10:11.359
 sight.

01:10:12.720 --> 01:10:14.000
 We need

01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:14.679
 the spirit

01:10:14.679 --> 01:10:15.479
 to expose

01:10:15.479 --> 01:10:16.859
 them with

01:10:16.859 --> 01:10:17.460
 that instrument

01:10:17.460 --> 01:10:18.739
 sharper than

01:10:18.739 --> 01:10:19.359
 any two-edged

01:10:19.359 --> 01:10:19.800
 sword,

01:10:20.079 --> 01:10:20.539
 able to

01:10:20.539 --> 01:10:21.439
 divide between

01:10:21.439 --> 01:10:22.019
 the bone

01:10:22.019 --> 01:10:22.559
 and marrow,

01:10:22.699 --> 01:10:23.159
 the soul

01:10:23.159 --> 01:10:23.720
 and spirit.

01:10:24.739 --> 01:10:25.479
 We must

01:10:25.479 --> 01:10:26.340
 all ask

01:10:26.340 --> 01:10:27.239
 individually

01:10:27.239 --> 01:10:28.059
 and collectively

01:10:28.059 --> 01:10:29.739
 as to how

01:10:29.739 --> 01:10:30.679
 that holy

01:10:30.679 --> 01:10:32.380
 agent and

01:10:32.380 --> 01:10:32.920
 instrument

01:10:32.920 --> 01:10:34.520
 is performing

01:10:34.520 --> 01:10:35.659
 its sacred

01:10:35.659 --> 01:10:36.940
 searching work

01:10:36.940 --> 01:10:37.640
 within

01:10:37.640 --> 01:10:38.840
 and among

01:10:38.840 --> 01:10:39.220
 us.

01:10:40.300 --> 01:10:41.020
 There is

01:10:41.020 --> 01:10:41.779
 no other

01:10:41.779 --> 01:10:42.300
 way

01:10:42.300 --> 01:10:44.000
 to be

01:10:44.000 --> 01:10:44.800
 in the

01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:45.100
 world

01:10:45.100 --> 01:10:46.220
 and yet

01:10:46.220 --> 01:10:46.600
 not of

01:10:46.600 --> 01:10:46.779
 it.

01:10:46.779 --> 01:10:46.840
 Thank you.

01:10:54.020 --> 01:10:54.940
 I think we

01:10:54.940 --> 01:10:55.399
 have a couple

01:10:55.399 --> 01:10:56.380
 minutes perhaps

01:10:56.380 --> 01:10:57.859
 for questions

01:10:57.859 --> 01:10:58.619
 or comments.

01:10:58.619 --> 01:10:58.680
 questions.

01:11:04.180 --> 01:11:04.819
 Yeah.

01:11:05.260 --> 01:11:06.159
 Thank you for

01:11:06.159 --> 01:11:06.640
 the wonderful

01:11:06.640 --> 01:11:07.180
 story.

01:11:07.960 --> 01:11:08.439
 I was

01:11:08.439 --> 01:11:08.939
 wondering,

01:11:09.279 --> 01:11:10.539
 did it

01:11:10.539 --> 01:11:11.399
 surprise you

01:11:11.399 --> 01:11:11.859
 that a

01:11:11.859 --> 01:11:12.539
 teacher of

01:11:12.539 --> 01:11:13.319
 such academic

01:11:13.319 --> 01:11:15.000
 caliber would

01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:15.680
 spend so much

01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:16.220
 time on

01:11:16.220 --> 01:11:17.140
 toddlers and

01:11:17.140 --> 01:11:18.899
 children as

01:11:18.899 --> 01:11:19.500
 compared to

01:11:19.500 --> 01:11:20.059
 university

01:11:20.059 --> 01:11:21.119
 students?

01:11:22.039 --> 01:11:22.739
 Was it a

01:11:22.739 --> 01:11:23.840
 personal choice

01:11:23.840 --> 01:11:25.220
 or were

01:11:25.220 --> 01:11:25.400
 there

01:11:25.400 --> 01:11:26.060
 limitations

01:11:26.060 --> 01:11:26.800
 based on

01:11:26.800 --> 01:11:27.360
 race and

01:11:27.360 --> 01:11:27.860
 sex?

01:11:29.760 --> 01:11:30.100
 Yeah,

01:11:30.220 --> 01:11:30.380
 well,

01:11:30.739 --> 01:11:32.619
 in many

01:11:32.619 --> 01:11:32.980
 ways,

01:11:33.180 --> 01:11:34.100
 her teaching

01:11:34.100 --> 01:11:36.699
 career

01:11:36.699 --> 01:11:38.060
 spanned

01:11:38.060 --> 01:11:38.920
 the whole

01:11:38.920 --> 01:11:39.460
 spectrum.

01:11:40.500 --> 01:11:41.739
 So she

01:11:41.739 --> 01:11:42.480
 seemed eager

01:11:42.480 --> 01:11:42.840
 to put

01:11:42.840 --> 01:11:43.460
 herself in

01:11:43.460 --> 01:11:43.760
 where an

01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:44.220
 opportunity

01:11:44.220 --> 01:11:44.900
 opened up

01:11:44.900 --> 01:11:46.199
 and where

01:11:46.199 --> 01:11:47.420
 there was

01:11:47.420 --> 01:11:48.000
 a gap,

01:11:48.300 --> 01:11:48.819
 she would

01:11:48.819 --> 01:11:49.159
 try to

01:11:49.159 --> 01:11:49.600
 fill that

01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:49.960
 gap.

01:11:50.860 --> 01:11:51.119
 So,

01:11:51.319 --> 01:11:51.539
 yes,

01:11:51.600 --> 01:11:51.900
 she did

01:11:51.900 --> 01:11:52.800
 work with

01:11:52.800 --> 01:11:53.320
 infants in

01:11:53.320 --> 01:11:53.659
 the infant

01:11:53.659 --> 01:11:54.320
 school from

01:11:54.320 --> 01:11:54.980
 ages two

01:11:54.980 --> 01:11:55.539
 to five.

01:11:55.779 --> 01:11:56.079
 She did

01:11:56.079 --> 01:11:56.900
 that up

01:11:56.900 --> 01:12:00.020
 in Canada

01:12:00.020 --> 01:12:00.539
 also.

01:12:01.239 --> 01:12:02.380
 But she

01:12:02.380 --> 01:12:03.400
 also started

01:12:03.400 --> 01:12:03.860
 common

01:12:03.860 --> 01:12:05.180
 schools for

01:12:05.180 --> 01:12:05.520
 all age

01:12:05.520 --> 01:12:06.039
 groups and

01:12:06.039 --> 01:12:06.320
 Sabbath

01:12:06.320 --> 01:12:07.520
 schools and

01:12:07.520 --> 01:12:08.860
 the very

01:12:08.860 --> 01:12:12.300
 elderly were

01:12:12.300 --> 01:12:12.619
 able to

01:12:12.619 --> 01:12:12.840
 come to

01:12:12.840 --> 01:12:13.199
 her schools

01:12:13.199 --> 01:12:13.500
 too.

01:12:13.779 --> 01:12:14.760
 So it

01:12:14.760 --> 01:12:15.239
 wasn't as

01:12:15.239 --> 01:12:15.500
 if she

01:12:15.500 --> 01:12:16.699
 confined her

01:12:16.699 --> 01:12:18.119
 teaching

01:12:18.119 --> 01:12:19.360
 activities to

01:12:19.360 --> 01:12:19.800
 just one

01:12:19.800 --> 01:12:20.199
 particular

01:12:20.199 --> 01:12:20.640
 segment.

01:12:20.640 --> 01:12:23.579
 royalty

01:12:23.579 --> 01:12:24.660
 too.

01:12:25.880 --> 01:12:27.340
 She had

01:12:27.340 --> 01:12:28.320
 remarkable

01:12:28.320 --> 01:12:29.039
 adaptability.

01:12:29.840 --> 01:12:29.940
 Yeah.

01:12:31.500 --> 01:12:32.180
 Yeah.

01:12:32.600 --> 01:12:32.960
 Yeah.

01:12:32.960 --> 01:12:33.020
 Yeah.

01:12:33.020 --> 01:12:33.380
 Yeah.

01:12:33.380 --> 01:12:33.640
 I'm

01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:34.500
 struck by

01:12:34.500 --> 01:12:35.160
 the fact

01:12:35.160 --> 01:12:35.740
 that I've

01:12:35.740 --> 01:12:36.220
 never heard

01:12:36.220 --> 01:12:36.660
 of her

01:12:36.660 --> 01:12:38.039
 faithful

01:12:38.039 --> 01:12:38.520
 Christian

01:12:38.520 --> 01:12:39.000
 moments.

01:12:39.600 --> 01:12:40.400
 And it's

01:12:40.400 --> 01:12:40.680
 reminded

01:12:40.680 --> 01:12:40.960
 of the

01:12:40.960 --> 01:12:41.160
 first

01:12:41.160 --> 01:12:42.680
 where God

01:12:42.680 --> 01:12:43.079
 used to

01:12:43.079 --> 01:12:43.260
 be

01:12:43.260 --> 01:12:43.780
 changed

01:12:43.780 --> 01:12:44.220
 strongly.

01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:45.560
 How many

01:12:45.560 --> 01:12:46.060
 faithful

01:12:46.060 --> 01:12:46.760
 Christians

01:12:46.760 --> 01:12:47.440
 were out

01:12:47.440 --> 01:12:47.640
 there?

01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:48.079
 We'll never

01:12:48.079 --> 01:12:48.579
 hear about

01:12:48.579 --> 01:12:48.940
 the middle

01:12:48.940 --> 01:12:49.420
 of the day

01:12:49.420 --> 01:12:51.159
 until the

01:12:51.159 --> 01:12:51.899
 day comes

01:12:51.899 --> 01:12:52.440
 where Christ

01:12:52.440 --> 01:12:54.619
 will give

01:12:54.619 --> 01:12:55.800
 us our

01:12:55.800 --> 01:12:56.420
 combination.

01:12:56.420 --> 01:12:57.819
 So it's

01:12:57.819 --> 01:12:58.920
 just an

01:12:58.920 --> 01:12:58.960
 example of

01:12:58.960 --> 01:12:59.920
 God, you

01:12:59.920 --> 01:13:00.319
 know,

01:13:00.319 --> 01:13:00.819
 making people

01:13:00.819 --> 01:13:01.420
 for himself

01:13:01.420 --> 01:13:02.480
 that we'll

01:13:02.480 --> 01:13:03.619
 learn about

01:13:03.619 --> 01:13:06.480
 until the day

01:13:06.480 --> 01:13:06.840
 comes.

01:13:06.840 --> 01:13:07.319
 Yeah.

01:13:07.940 --> 01:13:08.699
 Isn't that

01:13:08.699 --> 01:13:09.960
 wonderful?

01:13:10.220 --> 01:13:11.420
 I know of

01:13:11.420 --> 01:13:11.819
 so many

01:13:11.819 --> 01:13:12.119
 missionary

01:13:12.119 --> 01:13:12.899
 stories where

01:13:12.899 --> 01:13:13.560
 that's

01:13:13.560 --> 01:13:14.000
 something that

01:13:14.000 --> 01:13:14.340
 they often

01:13:14.340 --> 01:13:15.000
 struggle with.

01:13:15.739 --> 01:13:16.500
 One time

01:13:16.500 --> 01:13:16.840
 there was a

01:13:16.840 --> 01:13:17.260
 missionary that

01:13:17.260 --> 01:13:17.600
 was coming

01:13:17.600 --> 01:13:17.880
 back.

01:13:17.940 --> 01:13:18.239
 I can't get

01:13:18.239 --> 01:13:18.460
 into the

01:13:18.460 --> 01:13:18.920
 whole story,

01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:19.520
 but it

01:13:19.520 --> 01:13:20.039
 turns out

01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:20.279
 that he

01:13:20.279 --> 01:13:20.560
 was on

01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:20.960
 the same

01:13:20.960 --> 01:13:21.480
 boat after

01:13:21.480 --> 01:13:21.800
 a whole

01:13:21.800 --> 01:13:22.619
 life long

01:13:22.619 --> 01:13:24.420
 time on

01:13:24.420 --> 01:13:24.699
 the mission

01:13:24.699 --> 01:13:25.000
 field.

01:13:25.319 --> 01:13:25.539
 He was

01:13:25.539 --> 01:13:25.739
 on the

01:13:25.739 --> 01:13:26.359
 same boat

01:13:26.359 --> 01:13:27.000
 that Teddy

01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:27.560
 Roosevelt was

01:13:27.560 --> 01:13:28.020
 coming back

01:13:28.020 --> 01:13:28.859
 on after

01:13:28.859 --> 01:13:29.140
 his little

01:13:29.140 --> 01:13:29.720
 hunting spree

01:13:29.720 --> 01:13:30.180
 in Africa.

01:13:30.939 --> 01:13:31.520
 And everybody

01:13:31.520 --> 01:13:32.060
 bands and

01:13:32.060 --> 01:13:32.939
 everything is

01:13:32.939 --> 01:13:33.199
 there to

01:13:33.199 --> 01:13:33.640
 meet him

01:13:33.640 --> 01:13:34.140
 and cheer

01:13:34.140 --> 01:13:34.619
 and all.

01:13:35.220 --> 01:13:35.579
 And the

01:13:35.579 --> 01:13:36.640
 missionary just

01:13:36.640 --> 01:13:37.279
 had a moment

01:13:37.279 --> 01:13:37.880
 standing on

01:13:37.880 --> 01:13:38.199
 the dock

01:13:38.199 --> 01:13:38.680
 with nobody

01:13:38.680 --> 01:13:39.000
 to meet

01:13:39.000 --> 01:13:39.340
 him coming

01:13:39.340 --> 01:13:39.699
 back.

01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:40.779
 Had a

01:13:40.779 --> 01:13:41.260
 moment of

01:13:41.260 --> 01:13:41.720
 self-pity.

01:13:42.680 --> 01:13:42.859
 You know,

01:13:42.899 --> 01:13:43.260
 gosh, I'm

01:13:43.260 --> 01:13:43.760
 coming home.

01:13:44.420 --> 01:13:45.020
 There's nobody

01:13:45.020 --> 01:13:46.480
 here that

01:13:46.480 --> 01:13:47.260
 sees at

01:13:47.260 --> 01:13:47.539
 all.

01:13:48.340 --> 01:13:49.720
 And he

01:13:49.720 --> 01:13:51.260
 said, the

01:13:51.260 --> 01:13:51.680
 Holy Spirit

01:13:51.680 --> 01:13:52.239
 told me so

01:13:52.239 --> 01:13:52.820
 distinctly, I

01:13:52.820 --> 01:13:53.060
 heard his

01:13:53.060 --> 01:13:54.440
 voice, oh,

01:13:54.640 --> 01:13:55.260
 you're not

01:13:55.260 --> 01:13:55.780
 home yet.

01:13:57.000 --> 01:13:58.659
 So yes, there

01:13:58.659 --> 01:14:00.199
 will be that

01:14:00.199 --> 01:14:01.020
 day when we

01:14:01.020 --> 01:14:03.659
 will have that

01:14:03.659 --> 01:14:04.360
 combination and

01:14:04.360 --> 01:14:04.900
 it will certainly

01:14:04.900 --> 01:14:05.360
 be worth

01:14:05.360 --> 01:14:05.699
 everything.

01:14:05.840 --> 01:14:06.159
 And I love

01:14:06.159 --> 01:14:06.780
 that bit that

01:14:06.780 --> 01:14:07.480
 says, you

01:14:07.480 --> 01:14:07.980
 know, do not

01:14:07.980 --> 01:14:08.320
 say, oh,

01:14:08.320 --> 01:14:08.960
 Jacob or

01:14:08.960 --> 01:14:09.840
 Israel, your

01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:10.440
 way is hidden

01:14:10.440 --> 01:14:10.880
 from the

01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:11.140
 Lord.

01:14:11.140 --> 01:14:12.400
 that's a

01:14:12.400 --> 01:14:12.880
 great comfort

01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:13.420
 for so many

01:14:13.420 --> 01:14:13.880
 reasons.

01:14:14.440 --> 01:14:14.840
 For so many

01:14:14.840 --> 01:14:15.280
 reasons.

01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:16.280
 Yes.

01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:17.220
 And so

01:14:17.220 --> 01:14:17.840
 many, you'll

01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:18.240
 see if you

01:14:18.240 --> 01:14:19.780
 go, a lot

01:14:19.780 --> 01:14:20.240
 of missionaries

01:14:20.240 --> 01:14:20.579
 I can think

01:14:20.579 --> 01:14:20.740
 of.

01:14:21.420 --> 01:14:22.180
 So one that

01:14:22.180 --> 01:14:22.500
 went to

01:14:22.500 --> 01:14:26.260
 Burma, his

01:14:26.260 --> 01:14:27.619
 record is on

01:14:27.619 --> 01:14:27.920
 high.

01:14:28.720 --> 01:14:29.440
 His record is

01:14:29.440 --> 01:14:29.820
 on, her

01:14:29.820 --> 01:14:30.760
 record is on

01:14:30.760 --> 01:14:31.060
 high.

01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:32.300
 That's all

01:14:32.300 --> 01:14:32.720
 they have.

01:14:33.220 --> 01:14:33.579
 We don't

01:14:33.579 --> 01:14:33.760
 know.

01:14:34.300 --> 01:14:34.560
 We don't

01:14:34.560 --> 01:14:34.740
 know.

01:14:35.340 --> 01:14:35.820
 That's right.

01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:37.079
 Yeah.

01:14:37.260 --> 01:14:37.579
 We should

01:14:37.579 --> 01:14:38.000
 stop.

01:14:39.000 --> 01:14:39.420
 Oh, sorry.

01:14:39.800 --> 01:14:40.220
 Thank you,

01:14:40.300 --> 01:14:40.480
 team.

01:14:40.479 --> 01:14:41.639
 Next week,

01:14:41.759 --> 01:14:42.479
 you have the

01:14:42.479 --> 01:14:42.699
 joy.

01:14:42.859 --> 01:14:43.699
 I am doing

01:14:43.699 --> 01:14:44.059
 a wedding.

01:14:44.500 --> 01:14:45.119
 We're out

01:14:45.119 --> 01:14:45.479
 of town.

01:14:46.000 --> 01:14:46.699
 But Tom

01:14:46.699 --> 01:14:47.479
 Schmidt will

01:14:47.479 --> 01:14:48.000
 be looking at

01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:48.599
 women from

01:14:48.599 --> 01:14:49.000
 the early

01:14:49.000 --> 01:14:49.559
 church.

01:14:49.879 --> 01:14:50.139
 So it

01:14:50.139 --> 01:14:50.419
 should be

01:14:50.419 --> 01:14:50.799
 exciting.

01:14:51.239 --> 01:14:51.339
 Yeah.

01:14:51.839 --> 01:14:52.839
 And we'll

01:14:52.839 --> 01:14:53.579
 reconvene after

01:14:53.579 --> 01:14:53.839
 that.

01:15:00.239 --> 01:15:00.799
 Thank you.