THE SPIRIT OF CALEB LIVES ON
Life began at 47 for “Father” Heyer – Carl Friedrich Heyer, a Lutheran minister. After years of missionary work on the American frontier in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, Heyer in 1840 at the age of 47 learned of India with its millions of superstitious and underprivileged people. Once in India, he saw the great need for health care, so at 53 he came back to the United States for medical training. After 17 years of productive service in India, Heyer “retired” at 64 and became a traveling preacher in Minnesota, going from settlement to settlement in his wagon, preaching and baptizing. In 1868, when he was 75, he heard that missionary work in India was being dropped. He pleaded with a Lutheran convention in Pittsburgh to continue support for missions in India, but others argued that no missionary could be sent because of the shortages of money and manpower following the civil war. Dramatically, Heyer marched up…
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