A time for remembering : the story of Ruth Bell Graham

by Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Hardcover, 1983

Status

Available

Call number

269.2 COR

Description

Ruth Bell Graham is known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. It was Ruth who influenced Billy, as his most trusted life-partner. In Ruth, a Portrait, we meet this fascinating and remarkable woman. Brimming with anecdotes, this is a breathtaking journey, with stops at many of this century's epoch-making events. The childhood years of the future Mrs. Billy Graham were spent light-years away--in the China of the 1920s and 1930s. The daughter of medical missionaries, she and her family were caught in a crucible of unspeakable hardship; in addition to pestilence and plague, there was the unstable political and military turmoil surrounding the Nationalist government, the Communists, and the Japanese invaders. These hazardous realities shaped Ruth Bell and her family, a family inured to difficulties, but buoyed up by their deep belief in God's abiding will. Virtually raised by the Grahams, the author is a repository of Ruth Bell Graham's stories and has seen firsthand the spirit of this courageous woman. Patricia Cornwell not only gives readers a full, rounded, and intimate portrait of Ruth Bell Graham, but also insight into the life of the Graham family and particularly Billy Graham.… (more)

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LibraryThing member InsatiableB
This the story of Ruth Bell Graham, Billy's wife. It was fantastic and interesting and inspiring and well written. Patricia Cornwell is an author of mystery novels for the most part but wrote this biography of Ruth as an exception.

The book follows Ruth's life from the time she was born as a
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missionary's child in China. She lived her first 17 years in China with her parents and siblings. I found that portion really interesting in light of the plans Mr. B. and I have for our future.

Ruth then went to Wheaton College in Chicago where she met Billy Graham and fell in love.

The dynamic between southern boy Billy and naive yet assertive Ruth is fascinating. Ruth is daring and thoughtful, loving and stern, outgoing and reclusive. She is an influential, respectable lady of ladies.
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LibraryThing member RaskFamilyLibrary
Wonderful book. Great biography, she captures all the humor and wit of the real person. A living story. Really recommend it.
LibraryThing member Kathleen828
01-09-2005
This was "ok." Just ok.
I think the problem is that this is just too short. The brief chapters are only enough to whet the appetite for a lengthy account of this multi-faceted life.
We learn that Mrs. Graham has boxloads of papers - letters, poetry, meditations...these should have enabled a
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full and vigorous biography, and that's what I found myself wanting when I finished this book.
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Language

Original publication date

1983

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DDC/MDS

269.2 COR

Pages

xv; 270

Rating

½ (19 ratings; 3.9)
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