Memoirs of Aunt Sarah

[Guest Kurt]

(1880s) Sarah Ferrie, a subscriber for the Watchtower, wrote to Brother Russell saying that she and a few friends in Glasgow would like to volunteer to share in tract distribution. What a surprise when a truck pulled up at her door with 30,000 pamphlets, all to be distributed free! They moved into action. Minnie Greenlees, along with her three young sons, with a "pony and trap" for transportation, pressed the distribution of Bible literature into the Scottish countryside. Later on, Alfred Greenlees and Alexander MacGillivray, traveling on bicycles, distributed tracts throughout much of Scotland. Instead of paying others to distribute the literature, dedicated volunteers were now doing the work themselves. (Proclaimers book pg 411-412) 

This is a rare booklet of the Memoirs of Sarah Ferrie, affectionately referred to as "Aunt Sarah" by Minna Edgar. Sister of the famed John and Morton Edgar of the "Great Pyramid Passages" series.
Aunt Sarah was the first convert in Scotland, and a subscriber to Zion's Watch Tower. Through her tireless efforts in witnessing, the Bible Students began to grow.
She is mentioned in the "1973 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses" and the February 15, 1900 Watch Tower.
There is history here you will not find anywhere else as to the early beginnings of the Watch Tower, International Bible Students in Scotland.

Memoirs of Aunt Sarah