A FAITHFUL SERVANT FINISHES HER COURSE B y Mrs. B e tty Bruechert
her family. One thing was empha sized in Mrs. Redmond’s family home: the children had to secure an educa tion, and that old-time, thorough learning that she acquired showed up all through the remainder of her life. As a proof-reader on this magazine, she was famous for being able to spot a misspelled word “a mile off”! After her marriage, Mrs. Redmond lived in comfort in New York for twelve years. Then, left with four small children to support, she finally made her way to San Diego, Cali fornia, where a number of devastat ing things happened to her. First, she was swindled out of all the property that had come from her father’s estate. But in the midst of the loss of all her earthly possessions, she found eternal riches! At thirty-four years of age, a lonely, sad, destitute widow, she was led to Christ by a faithful Bible teacher and wife of a dentist, Mrs. Rood, who ministered to her not only in a spiritual way, but in a ma terial way as well. Before that time, Mrs. Redmond had sought peace by dabbling in cults, but as soon as she knew by experience that the Lord Jesus Christ was “the way, the truth and the life,” she put all her bound less energy into serving Him and rearing her family. It was not easy for a woman to make a living in those days and there were many times when there was not much to eat, but there was enough. The Lord she had learned to love has special promises for widows and orphans and He never failed her. She got a government job, working on five different Campo In dian reservations; she ran a mission; she did anything and everything, all the while fearlessly witnessing for Christ wherever she went. Those were pioneer days in Southern California "Absent from the body . . . present with the Lord" A s we go to press, word has just reached us that another of the Lord’s dear children has gone in to see the King. Nellie, beloved wife of Dr. Roy L. Brown, the well-known “chart” evangelist and Bible teacher, fell asleep in Christ at her home in Pasadena, California, September 16, 1958, after a long illness. Besides the sorrowing husband, two sons and two daughters survive. One son, a min ister of the Gospel, went to be with the Lord in 1948.
too. Once on horseback she was pur sued by a mountain lion; another time she shot two huge rattlesnakes. Her family remembers that the skins of the animals were around the house for some years. Finally, the Redmonds came to Los Angeles, and eventually she secured her most lucrative employment in the personnel department of Bullock’s Department Store. Here the hand of God again was displayed in her life, for Mrs. Redmond and her children lived in an apartment at Fifth and Flower Streets where the California Club now stands. From that vantage point, they witnessed the erection of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles from the ground up. They saw the school build the church auditorium and heard the famous Dr. R. A. Tor- rey, the first dean of the school and the first pastor of the church. Mrs. Redmond became a charter member of the Church of the Open Door on February 3, 1918, enrolling her chil dren in the Sunday School, and be coming an ardent personal worker. She was asked to go around the world with the distinguished Torrey-Alex- ander Evangelistic Team but because her children were not mature, re mained in Los Angeles, and later on joined the staff of the church. She served through the pastorates of Dr. John McNiel, Dr. Peter Philpot and Dr. Louis T. Talbot. Mrs. Redmond leaves one daughter and three sons to revere her memory. One son is an atomic scientist and a grandson is a Presbyterian minister. Now that she has entered “within the veil,” she has knowledge of the many she influenced for Christ, and un doubtedly a great number welcomed her with joy because she had shown them the way of salvation through the cross of Christ. No longer walk ing by faith, but by sight, she knows how true are the words of the Apostle John in the book she was reading as her last act upon earth: “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord . . . they rest from their labours; and then- works do follow them” (Rev. 14:13). Editor’s Note: Mrs. Betty Bruechert is a former managing editor of the K ing ’ s B usiness . She is now the efficient secre tary to Dr. Louis T. Talbot and serves as general editorial advisor. A n investment of five minutes reading this will bring a lasting challenge to your heart. May we pray with the Psalmist: “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
Mrs. Lucy R. Redmond
I n the home-going of Mrs. Lucy R. Redmond, the church of Christ has lost one of its valued and beloved servants. The manner of her depar ture was a fitting climax to her in tensely spiritual and colorful life. Re tired for the last three years, on the evening of September 8th, Mrs. Red mond sat reading in the yard of the home of her daughter in Eagle Rock, which had been her home for a num ber of years. Characteristically, she was reading “An Exposition of the Book of Revelation” by Dr. Louis T. Talbot, and comparing notes with her Bible. When it became too dark to read, she marked this book at the chapter headed, “The things which shall be hereafter: the church trans lated, ’round about the throne,” and her Bible at Revelation 4, which covers this subject. She went into the house and directly to her bedroom, where instantly she entered into the presence of the Lord. From the con templation of the written Word, she beheld the living Word. In many respects, Mrs. Redmond was the rugged pioneer type which is fast passing from the American scene. Bom in Tekamah, Nebraska, in 1874, just seven years after Nebras ka territory was admitted as a state, she experienced the hard struggles of the plains’ settlers of that day. Al though the Indian wars had nearly ceased, and the Indian faces which peered into the windows of her home were friendly, nevertheless her father kept his muzzle-loader “at the ready” over the door of their sod house. As a child, she learned to ride and shoot like a man. This skill served her well later on when in the Far West she often shot rabbits and quails to feed
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