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"The Walking Wounded "Waiting to die is no way to live." CALM participant Advances in medical treatment and changing demographics mean that a growing number of individuals in the world are living with advanced cancer. They are the walking wounded, facing the threat of impending mortality and the challenge of continuing with their lives. Their task differs from those who are at the end of life, whose primary goal is to face death with comfort and equanimity. The latter is no small accomplishment, but living meaningfully in the face of advanced disease is, in some respects, an even greater challenge"--
John Heinrich Schmidt was born 9 April 1804 in Langenaubach, Nassau, Germany. He married Catharina Elisabeth Schmitt 7 February 1830 in Haiger, Germany. They had eight children. They emigrated in 1852 and settled in Wisconsin. Johann died in 1874 in Waupaca, Wisconsin. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany, Switzerland, England, Wisconsin and Illinois.
In a study important to the fields of women's studies and English literature, as well as to the religious and social history of Britain, Deborah Valenze argues the significance of a cottage-based evangelicalism that responded to the transformation of England in the nineteenth century. She goes beyond previous treatments of popular religion by offering a glimpse into the lives of humble people for whom a domestic form of religion became the focal point of daily activity. In addition, she opens up a hitherto unknown aspect of the history of nineteenth-century women by demonstrating the importance of working-class female preachers--vigorous ministers who risked their physical well-being and rep...