Introduction
Index
“Florence P. Minch
Stauffacher was born April 20, 1881 in Hooppole, Illinois,
and studied to become a teacher at Northwestern College in
Naperville, Illinois. Following two years of teaching near
her hometown, she decided to become a missionary and in
1905 she joined Africa Inland Mission and departed for
Africa. Enroute she was hospitalized in England for
diphtheria and did not complete her journey to Kenya until
1906. In 1906, she married John W. Stauffacher. In 1908,
the Stauffachers' first son, Raymond, was born. Claudon
was born in 1910. Mrs. Stauffacher's contribution to the
work included not only teaching Bible lessons, but
teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, and sewing.
Following her husband's death in 1944, Mrs. Stauffacher
moved to the AIM station at Oicha, Irumu, Belgian Congo
(now Democratic Republic of Congo), where she served until
returning to Ruwenzori before her death in 1959.”
Transcriber's Note
Every person is a
career artist, and whether they like it or not every
person creates one great masterpiece during their
lifetime. That masterpiece is the life they live, whatever
it consists of. Their “true account”. This is Florence
Priscilla Minch Stauffacher's “Passion According to St.
Matthew”.
In this
transcription, I have taken the liberty of doing a minimal
amount of editing. Although a school teacher, in her
diaries Florence frequently utilized her own special
spelling, syntax, punctuation, etc. I have valued this as
her own style of writing (in some cases the language of
the time) and have generally tried to preserve it, however
on occasion I have corrected misspellings and on very rare
occasions used a different word when I felt that an
unintended word had been used. Occasionally I inserted
explanatory text in [square brackets].
I worked from
scans graciously provided by the Billy Graham Center
Archive, the custodian of the diaries, which are available
to the general public.
Richard
Stauffacher, grandson
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