COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS, AND INFLUENCES ON THE LIFE AND MINISTRY OF JONES Jennifer Boardman NELLIE LOGAN (1870–1950)
Nellie Logan was a schoolteacher who only traveled outside of her home city of Baltimore, Maryland, on a few short trips. Though she did not travel far, her influence was far-reaching through her spiritual impact on the life and ministry of E. Stanley Jones. Miss Nellie, as Jones called her, was one of Jones’s first teachers, and they shared their lives through letters during her lifetime. When Jones’s mother passed away, Logan even became his stand-in mother: When my mother was dying she called Miss Nellie and said to her: “These years I have prayed for Stanley. Now I am going. I’m turning him over to you, for you will take up my vigil of prayer for him.” Miss Nellie said to me years later: “I’ve been true to the entrustment.” . . . She was “true” as a friend, a counselor, a Christian—everything that a noble woman could be. Though Jones gave much credit to Logan for his faith and ministry, she, too, was grateful for Jones. She wrote,
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SPREADING THE GOSPEL Sherwood Eddy and Chinese professor Chen Wei Ping look at a YMCA campaign poster (above left); Ralph Diffendorfer (above) dedicated himself to supporting world missions.
The one desire of my life has always been to travel and see the world. . . . I have no regrets for I have tried to keep solemn promises made with the full consent of my will. However I have traveled thro’ books, lectures, and letters from my friends who were more fortunate than I. . . . I am grateful to my Heavenly Father for giving me imagination! A woman and a man, a teacher and a pupil, a homebody and a famous world influencer, Logan and Jones’s spiritual friendship bridged gender, age, vocation, and culture.
SHERWOOD EDDY (1871–1963)
Sherwood Eddy was born in Kansas to a prosperous family, becoming a Christian in 1889. He worked in
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G. SHERWOOD EDDY & CHEN WEI PING, 1918–1919 . SIDNEY D. GAMBLE PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION [CC 0 1.0 ]—DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DR. R. E. DIFFENDORFER, 1930 S TO 1940 S—COURTESY OF GCAH OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, MADISON, NEW JERSEY
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