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Spun from Fact

As the title suggests, this story is from real events. As the author explains in the last chapter, all of the events are true; the conversations and other minor elements have been fleshed out by the author.

Jeannie Barrett comes to faith as a girl. That faith is to be tested for more than 20 years, as her health takes a sudden downturn. Added to that, her father, the breadwinner of the family, has a financial setback. It seems to be a case of a 19th-Century female Job! This is an account of her sufferings, but also of her support and provision in Christ.

Jennie Smith's own account is told in The Valley of Baca.- Summary by TriciaG (9 hr 4 min)

Chapters

It Just Happens

18:36

Six Years Will Make Changes

19:00

“I Think Everything is Strange”

17:47

“Will You?”

18:15

An Outsider

18:21

All Excitement

17:20

“Mother, O Mother!”

19:56

“Poor Jeanie!”

20:03

Reuben Perrine Whately

21:38

“Poor Child, it is Hard!”

22:31

An Explanation

19:53

“Ought She? Could She?”

19:34

Bits of Logic

18:49

Just This Once

19:38

“If I Had Known”

21:12

A Fanatic Still

20:20

“Won’t You Explain?”

20:00

“If Jeanie Can”

20:51

In “Father’s House”

20:46

The Hardest Part

21:04

I Am Anchored

22:11

My Little Simple Story

22:06

I Am to Go

23:31

So Utterly Helpless

21:02

Harbor at Last

20:19

Waiting

17:13

“And if it be Thy Will”

22:36