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"Edward
McKendree Bounds (1835-1913), Methodist minister and devotional
writer, born in Shelby County, Missouri. Studied law and was admitted
to the bar at twenty-one years. After practicing law for three years,
began preaching for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. At the
time of his pastorate at Brunswick, Misouri, war was declared, and
he was made a prisonar of war for refusing to take the oath of allegiance
to the Federal Government. After release he served as chaplain of
the Fifth Missouri regiment [for the Confederate Army] until the close
of the war, when captured and held as prisoner at Nashville, Tennessee.
After the war ended, Bounds served as pastor of churches in Tennessee,
Alabama, and St. Louis, Missouri.... Spent the last seventeen years
of his life with his family in Washington, Georgia, writing his 'Spiritual
Life Books.'" (From "The Wycliffe Biographical Dictionary
of the Church," page 54, Elgin S. Moyer, 1982, © Moody Press,
Chicago, IL) |
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