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church, but in the Presbyterian church there was a good, old-fashioned preacher whose sermons—founded upon the Word of God—made the soul of the young girl restless until she sought and found Him who is “the Way, the Truth and the Life.”
it would be better to marry a business man than a minister, and was finally successful.” Mrs. Horton had a fine well-trained mezzo-soprano voice, and had been sing ing in a quartet in the leading Episco pal church of Indianapolis. Continuing
their work in the mission, she taught a class of boys, and her husband took charge Of the Primary (or as it was then called, the “Infant” ) Department of the Sunday School, where they spent many happy.years, learning to do things by doing them. With a cultured mind, practical abil ity, and a rarely unselfish devotion, this little woman grew in knowledge and in wisdom. Blessed with unusually good health, she not only gave the proper at tention to the duties of the home, but gave instruction upon the organ (having many free pupils), and made her home a rendezvous for young people where
Moving later to Indianapolis, she met a young business man,'lately converted, Mr. Thomas C. Horton, who had re sponded to a call (as she herself had) for workers in a little Presbyterian Mis sion. Her husband says of her: “I saw her first on her own doorstep, as I happened to pass by her home, and never forgot her face. In the mission I saw her a t the organ, and the services there suddenly became very attractive to me, especially the organ music. She was engaged a t th a t time to marry a young Presbyterian minister but her father was opposed to the match, and I used my utmost endeavors to persuade her that
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