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Jeremiah Bell Jeter
Jeremiah Bell Jeter (1811–1880) was a prominent Baptist minister and editor whose theological writings and editorial work significantly shaped nineteenth-century American evangelical thought. As a leading figure in the Southern Baptist Convention and editor of the Religious Herald, Jeter wielded considerable influence over Baptist doctrine and practice during the antebellum and Reconstruction periods. His biographical work on Henrietta Shuck exemplified the nineteenth-century evangelical interest in missionary narratives and the emerging role of women in Protestant missionary enterprises.
From A Memoir of Mrs. Henrietta Shuck, the First American Female Missionary to China
p. 13 Henrietta Hall’s birth-place—Parentage—Religious training—Education—Mrs. Little's letter—Her religious awakening—The Lancaster Camp-meeting—Henrietta’s conversion—Baptism—Her mother’s death—Her father’s removal to Richmond—She was sions—Her engagement to Mr. Shuck—Vindication of Christian missions, and her motives—Her letter to Sunday Schoot scholars— Her marriage—Misionaries set apart—Mrs. Shuck’s trip to Boston —Her farewell letter to her father—Mr. Hall’s letter and parting advice to his daughter. Tue peninsula, lying between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, in the North Eastern part of the state of Virginia, is generally known as the “Northern Neck.” It is distinguished as the birth-place of three Presidents of the United States—Washington, Madison, and Monroe. In the Eastern extremity of the “Neck,” in the county of Lancaster, within a few miles of the Chesapeake bay, is situated the little village of Kilmarnock. Here was born, Oct. the 28th, 1817, Henrietta Hall, (afterwards Mrs. Shuck.) Her parentage on both sides was highly respectable. Her father, the…
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