The Daughter of Affliction. A Memoir of the Protracted Sufferings, and Religious Experience of Miss Mary Rankin
Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Printing Establishment, 1858. First printing. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo, original bright green cloth, gilt spine, good plus copy with moderate shelfwear to binding, foxing to contents. 253 pp, frontispiece of Rankin. Born in Huntington County, PA in 1821, she was never in the best of health and when as a young woman her leg became infected from a "white thorn running through" her foot and later had to be amputated, this led to repeated episodes of bloodletting and cauterization in order to "balance" her system. She then had periodic spasmodic fits that seem from this perspective to be epileptic, and became an invalid who never left her bed. During all of these trials she became a passionate member of the United Brethren Church, the first purely American Protestant sect, and much of her autobiography, whispered into the close ear of her attending physician concerns her devotion to this church and her analysis that her sufferings and tribulations confirmed rather than denied God's existence. Good. Item #H6224
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