Confessions from the Sixth Child out of Seven

Tag: faith

  • Inside the Gate

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    Mabel Houle
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    During our years of singing acapella quartet music, it was customary for our family to visit churches in the surrounding area. There was a Pentecostal church in Ladysmith we visited a few times when they were hosting a visiting revival pastor Pa wanted to hear preach. Most of the churches we visited had very traditional…

  • The Manning Quartet

    The Manning Quartet

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    Mabel Houle
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    My sister Doris was born in 1944. She graduated from Flambeau High School in 1962, and started working at the school as a secretary. She lived at home, bought a car to drive to work each day and had money to contribute to the household. She would buy different food items from the grocery store…

  • Where do Babies Come From?

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    Mabel Houle
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    My younger brother, Carl, was born in October of 1958 when I was four years old. The only memory I have about his birth, is that Pa took me and some of my siblings to visit Ole and Elsie Olson. Usually when we went to visit Ole and Elsie, our whole family went together, and…