ILLNESS, LONELINESS and FRUSTRATION: Call Back Volume 1 - Softcover

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Edwin F. Harvey (1908-1983). Edwin was brought up in a Christian community known as the Metropolitan Church Association (MCA), founded by Edwin's uncle and a friend who was a wealthy banker. They had sold up all they had and purchased a large, stately building known as the "Fountain House" which had been a former hotel and health spa. Edwin came to a living faith through his friend, Howard Bitzer. He and Howard had a goal, an inner purpose which drove them-a fire which burned in their bones.After being posted to Scotland as director of the MCA in Great Britain, Edwin on a return trip, shocked an old associate and former student, Lillian Johnson, who had also surrendered her life to God, with a letter asking if it could be arranged for them to meet for at least one good talk. Finding it increasingly difficult to remain single in his leadership position, he had prayed about a helpmeet. Within twelve months, Edwin and Lillian were married. The following year, 1939, Edwin was recalled for camp-meeting in the States and Lillian bravely offered to stay and run things as best she could in their absence. Edwin barely made it back before war broke out and all travel to Britain was curtailed.The next few years were not easy. Until America entered the war, Edwin and Lillian were considered aliens, and their travel and activities were restricted. So they opened a home for bombed-out children and became temporary parents to orphaned, lonely boys and girls. As the years wore on, Edwin & Lillian began to have problems with the exclusive attitude of their home church. After much heartache, they founded Message of Victory Evangelism (M.O.V.E.) with some of the younger workers who, like them, were open to a radical new way of obedience. MOVE engaged both in earnest evangelism efforts and promoting holiness of life through publishing a bi-monthly magazine and books.Their emphasis gradually shifted from evangelism to compiling Christian literature which would minister to the Body of Christ. Edwin's knowledge of English and his organized style of writing balanced his wife's more imaginative and rambling style. However, Edwin, being the Prince of a man that he was, remained the steady, silent force in both their ministry and home.After moving back to the States in 1981, Edwin "Passed into Life" at age seventy-five., Lillian viewed the many unfinished manuscripts stowed away carefully in her files and remembered their joint charge to "Walk about Zion," and knew she must finish the work they had begun together which she did till at ninety-seven years of age, she joined her husband in the throng above who worship the Lamb day and night.