EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; ALICE BELLE GARRIGUS P/28

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In this story I will focus on a woman named Alice Belle Garrigus. She lived from 1858 - 1949. Born into an Episcopalian family in Rockville, Connecticut, Alice spent the first half of her life in various locations in New England.

At 15 she began teaching in rural schools. Desiring further schooling, she returned to Normal School and then spent the years 1878 - 1881 at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College). Leaving the seminary a year before graduation, she resumed teaching. Through the influence of a colleague, Getrude Wheeler, Alice accepted Christ as her Saviour in 1888. Both women left on a 10-months excursion to Europe.

Returning to the US, Alice again taught school, but she was spiritually restless. She wanted a deeper walk with God and began reading Hannah Whitall Smith's "The Christian 's Secret of a Happy Life." "This I read," Alice wrote, "often on my knees - praying fervently: "Oh God, if there be such an experience, won't You bring me into it?"