Mail Order Grace: A Little Child Shall Lead Her
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Mail Order Grace: A Little Child Shall Lead Her, is about a widower who was left with a traumatized daughter who cannot see, hear or speak. After watching her mother die from a random gunshot wound, the little girl withdrew into a world of her own, leaving her father unable to cope or understand how he can save her. He decides to advertise for a mail order bride -- not one to marry but a teacher to help his daughter get better. A life-changing and emotional event concludes the story.
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Mail Order Grace - Vanessa Carvo
Mail Order Grace: A Little Child Shall Lead Her
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Vanessa Carvo
Copyright 2014 Vanessa Carvo
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‘Widowed man with ten year old daughter, Abigail -- known as Abby -- who is blind and strong willed, seeking a tender, soft and compassionate woman who is of a teacher type, to live with us and assist me with satisfying the needs of my daughter.
‘She is in need of kind discipline. I am offering security, stability, basic needs met and a warm home to a woman who has the heart of Christ and can apply that heart to my daughter. I am not looking for love or marriage, but for my daughter to receive soft discipline, education and a woman’s influence in her life. Please, only the serious apply. My name is Harland Dobbs.’
This is how my story began and this is how I found a precious woman who came into my daughter’s life and changed her remarkably.
On the morning of June 12, 1855, my wife Angela Kate had taken Abby into town by buggy to treat her to a day of shopping for new material that she would be making dresses out of for Sabbath and special occasions.
As they left Sabrina’s Shop, she walked into the street to return to her buggy and a fight was beginning to unfold in the street. When Angela hurried alongside of the street, shots rang out and a stray bullet to the heart hit Angela.
She fell to the ground, Abby ran to her mother, and Angela died in my daughter’s arms. By the time I got word of what had happened, the town Mayor had taken my daughter to a local orphanage to be cared for.
Abby was in a horrible way, refused to talk and has been blind ever since. I had taken Abby to many doctors, even into the city of New York to see what they can do for my daughter, but not one doctor has any answers for me.
Their point of view, for the most part is that she will either come out of it, or she will not, and only time will tell. Some doctors I have taken her to have no heart and they label her as being deaf and mute, as well as calling her retarded.
It has been a very hard five years in trying to reach my daughter to get her to talk again and I have prayed for her sight to return. She was only five years old when she witnessed her mother being shot down and held her mother as she died. I believed it was more of an emotional trauma to her heart, but the doctors had no cure for her.
In desperation and when Abby had turned ten years old, I put an ad in the church newsletter, hoping to find a tender and gracious teacher that could reach my daughter, emotionally and bring her out of her chains of sorrow.
With no other hope left, this was my last resort in hopes to help my daughter live a healthier and happier life. The above ad is the one that I placed and as you can see, I had no interest in marriage, only to find a woman who could reach my daughter.
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