One afternoon I was invited to have tea with Mrs. Bertha Spaffort Vester, who had lived [in Jersualem] all of her ninety-one years. A fascinating woman, she was the fifth daughter of Horatio Spafford, who wrote, “It Is Well with My Soul.”
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