As it was on Pa's farm (A Destiny book)

By Mary Farley Willis

Though the Malcolm family has always tried to live a life based on God's teachings, it has trouble accepting a family of Seventh-Day Adventists. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816303932
• ISBN13: 9780816303939
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Pacific Press Pub. Association
• Length: 128 Pages

Customer Reviews

A Southern Farm Family in the Early 20th century begins with their young children and follows them a

Tom and Valinda Malcolm were a hard working farm family in the south. They wanted better for their kids than they had. They both worked hard to reach that goal and they did. They had kerosene lamps and drove a horse pulled wagon but they were a happy God fearing, praying family. Pa read the Bible. They treated their children well. The children participated in many community activities. As a small boy their middle child Toby got what I think was Polio in one leg. Ma saw that the Drs white powder did not work so every day she and Pa dipped Toby's legs in a bucket of warm water. It worked and his one leg was shorter and more withered than the other but he got around well.His younger brother was Hank and older sister Susan. Toby was the first to marry. Susan went to college and married the Dr's son. Hank 's marriage to a Seventh Day Adventist girl, Vera was a little hard for Ma and Pa but they accepted it and Hank joined the Seventh Day Adventist Church with his parents blessing.This was an excellent book about life in the early 20th century.