Life Changing Experiences and Listening to the Promptings of the Spirit
(Pictured: William Odell and Opal Adams Tolman Family in 1953) (John Odell Tolman shares two accounts among many sacred and faith promoting experiences that he had with his father, William Odell Tolman). Life Changing Experiences: Toward the end of my senior year at...
A Short History of Alice Bracken
(A short history of Alice Bracken Tolman, January 29,1832 to August 18, 1901, written by her daughter Minnie Elizabeth Tolman Pickett) “Even He who died for us on the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death and mindful of His mother as if to teach...
Fanny Burgess Gorringe
(Fanny Burgess gives a short history of her life). I was born January 27, 1829, in a small town called Battle, County of Sussex, of England. My Parents, Joseph Burgess and Martha Jarrett, were working people in a farming district. They were followers of John Wesley...
Running Scared Aboard the Duchess of Atholl
An account from William Odell Tolman’s journal as he crosses the Atlantic Ocean on the passenger ship the Duchess of Atholl to begin his missionary service in England in November of 1928.