Carved Into the Family Name
In 1865, Moses and Susan Carver sent a neighbor on horseback into the night to recover an infant stolen by raiders from their Missouri farm....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12.
In 1865, Moses and Susan Carver sent a neighbor on horseback into the night to recover an infant stolen by raiders from their Missouri farm. The baby — sick, frail, barely breathing — had no birth certificate, no legal surname, no standing in the world. He was property on paper, an orphan in every practical sense. Yet the Carvers did something remarkable: they took that child into their home and gave him their name.…
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