PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ELI AND SYBIL JONES.
CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS. "Man is the nobler growth our soil
CHAPTER II. AT SCHOOL AND AT HOME. "My mind, aspire to higher
CHAPTER III. MARRIAGE WITH SYBIL JONES. "I see in the world the
CHAPTER IV. FIRST VISIT. "He who in glory did on Horeb's height
CHAPTER V. EAST, WEST, AND SOUTH.
CHAPTER VI. VOYAGE TO LIBERIA. "Be sure they sleep not whom God
CHAPTER VII. WORK IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND. "Their single aim the
CHAPTER VIII. NORWAY, GERMANY, AND SWITZERLAND. "A voice spake
CHAPTER IX. WINTER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE.
CHAPTER X. IN THE MAINE LEGISLATURE.
CHAPTER XI. IN WASHINGTON. "Follow with reverent steps the
CHAPTER XII. MISSION-WORK.
CHAPTER XIII. LETTERS FROM SYRIA.
CHAPTER XIV. SECOND VISIT TO THE HOLY LAND.
CHAPTER XV. SYBIL JONES: HER LIFE-WORK AND DEATH.
CHAPTER XVI. ALONE AT HOME. "Nor blame I Death because he bare
CHAPTER XVII. LATER VISITS TO THE EAST.
CHAPTER XVIII. AS A FRIEND.
CHAPTER XIX. HIS PLACE AS A WORKER.
Title: Eli and Sibyl Jones
Their Life and Work
Author: Rufus Matthew Jones
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Eli Jones Eli Jones.
Sybil Jones Sybil Jones.
Eli and Sibyl Jones:
THEIR LIFE AND WORK.
BY
RUFUS M. JONES.
"Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them Thine."
In Memoriam.
PHILADELPHIA:
PORTER & COATES.
Copyright, 1889,
BY PORTER & COATES.
TO
THE SWEET AND SHINING MEMORY
OF
PLINY EARLE CHASE,
WHOSE SCHOLARSHIP AND CHRISTIAN MANHOOD INSPIRED
YOUNG MEN TO RICHER AND PURER LIVES, AND
WHO AS TEACHER POINTED STUDENTS
TO THE
GREAT MASTER,
THIS BOOK
IS
Affectionately Inscribed
BY HIS PUPIL.