Isabella Thoburn

Isabella Thoburn

I s a b ella T h o b u rn Willia m F O l dh a m . Th e wom en th at publish th e tidin g'are a great host C ri h ted 1 02 b op y g , 9 , y V l u t Mv m t fo r F Ms s s Th e Stu d en t o n eer o e en orei g n i ion m a n d Rep rin te d b y Per i s s ion . A BRO THER ’ S TRI BUTE B HO P M. THO BURN IS J . Ms s t a ex ona om an on am on e w s an ce t e y i r p i l w , g en th ou sand Her s tron character as n ota e for its t . g w bl s m c t er s end d coura e w as in str k n con i pli i y . H pl i g i i g trast th h er u etness o f s r t She was conser at ve wi ' i pi i . v i b nst nct an d ro ss e from c n c on She was y i i p gre iv o vi ti . perfectly calm in tim es of storm and always c onfid ent in th e face o f d saster Her fa th was k e a c ear e d ence i . i li l vi , h er h o e k e an a ssurance of th n s n ot seen er p li i g . H absol ute d evo ti on to th e welfare of th ose wh o s eem ed to hr n in her a s s m C hr s - k e Wo u d be t ow w y w a i ply i t li . l to G o d th a t a thous an d young wom en of lik e spiri t might be raised up for the spl en did opp or tuni ties which are no w o pening up before th e C hurch ' M3 1 2244 I s a b ella T h o b u r n h r i s ti a n—T ea c h er—Mis s i o n a r C y I 8 40 - 1 9 0 1 - — ' in R A TRY I . Th Th o bm ns S COTC H I I SH N CES . e — — I r el a n d The Scotch Irish are held in high esteem A m in merica . So marked is this estee that the aver it age Protestant Irish family , when begins to pros er k p , ma es minute search for the dash of Scotch blood that is suppo sed to greatly enrich it and se in Th obu r n s cure the family popular esteem . The i a 1 m were or ginally Scotch , prob bly sprung fro Scandinavian ancestors . In the seventeenth cen t u ry a portion of the family moved to the neighbo r d o f H hoo Belfast , I reland . ere early in the last c u on e u b ent ry of the Thorb rns , whose name y Irish r to u att ition had come be Thob rn , marrie d Miss to Crawford , and together they emigrated the “ ' U i — La n ted States , that Beulah nd toward which Irish eyes have looked longingly for a h undred n w years and never more eagerly than o . ' 6 I s a bel l a Th o b u r n r a n A r c , n 2 . O n e chi g m e i a i 1 8 2 5 the Th obu rn s to E O were attracted astern hio , Where they settled n e on a farm near St . Clairsville . O hio is o of the o f U remarkable States the nion , for here the severer cu lture of the older East meets the expansive and F virile ene rgy of the younger West . rom this State there has come a larger proportion o f the commandin g men and women of the Republic than n its mere numbers would lead o e to expect . The O hio man is prominent in State and Church , and the O hio woman is in evidence everywhere . MA N D L — I Th T o r n e h bu O H IO HO ES S C HOO S . — F a m ily It was in the stimulating religious atmos ph er e of this great state that the Thoburn children n T were bor and reared . here were ten of them , fo r o n e o ld - this was of those healthy , fashioned families that did not tend to disappearance in a F generation or two . ive boys and five girls made the Thoburn home a bustling , busy place . Isabella was the ninth child and the youngest daugh ter but All o f o 1 8 0 . one . She was b rn March 9 , 4 the children have given a good account of themselves f . O in life the sisters , two have been much in the o f E o f eye the Methodist piscopal Church , because ’ their wide pu blic service in the woman s missionary R f . activities o that denomination Mrs . J Mills ’ is no w the Con ference Secretary of the Woman s Foreign Missionary Society of the Ea st O hio Con I s a b el l a Th o bu r n 7 . E ference , and Mrs llen Cowen of Cincinnati is the efficient corresponding secretary of the Cin cin n ati B ranch of the same society , which includes o f O ' V . the States hio , entucky and West irginia t Her youngest bro her is James Mills Thoburn , Mis s ion a r n y Bishop of India , a man as well know and influential for good as any m a n that America ever A sent to Southern sia . 2 . Th e er/r en ts p of these children were , it may e o f a nd easily be believed , p ople sterling worth deep religious fervor . The father was a class h leader in the Methodist C urch . The mother , a o f ro woman extraordinary force of character , p ’ f n l ff o u d y a ected her children s early religious life . As A u s o with ug stine and John Wesley , with the Th obu rns ; when one inquires i nto the life and out o f h e a of comes the child , must t ke note the mother wh o an , more than y other on earth , shapes in fancy d and adolescence into worthy manhoo . ’ I a ella Ed u ca tioh - s b s . 3. Isabella , in common with the other children of the family , received her early education in the country public scho ol . Here a en n ot she proved herself faithful stud t , brilliant , but purpo seful and thorough . She never would to a o assent prop sition , whether in letters or num bers , until she understood it . Mental thoroughness ea rly characterized her . She might seem a trifle s w r o lo in eaching a p sition , but when she arrived 8 I s a b el l a Th o b u r n she knew the ground which she h a d been over o to th roughly , and was competent intelligently di It - u rect the next adventurer . was unus al at that time for young women to go any fa rther with their u o bu t education than the p blic scho l , Miss Tho b u r n and her mother were agreed that the largest possible preparation for the work of life is the best a nd u k investment of money time that yo th can ma e . So the public school course was followed by the training afforded by the Wheeling Female Semi nary and that by a year in the Art Schoo l o f Cin cinn i u u a t . It was well that such so nd ed cational foundations were laid in her girlhood by on e wh o wa s afterwards to open the pathway to the higher learning for the coming leaders of a fa r away p eo Fo r u ple . Miss Thob rn to have been content with less than the be st preparation which the times and h e r circumstances afforded wou ld have barred her u u from the wider sef lness of later y ears . — E r l Tea chin . E x er ieneex F ea r s 4. a y g p orty y a g o the number of educated women was small every I t O where . was larger in hio than in most States , bu t not so large bu t that one might safely say of a u v well prepared woman that she would probably be n b come a teacher . This Miss Thobur ecame at the Bu t u u in early age of eighteen . tho gh yo ng years , she was remarkably mature in j u dgment and had that admi rable admixture of frank kindliness with I s a bell a Th o b u r n 9 native leadership which enables its happy possessor to become at once the friend and guide of others .

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