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Called By God work, Mrs. Henry was issued a min-isterial license by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination during the years 1898 and 1899. Mrs. Henry frequently wrote for the Review and Herald. Titles of some of the books and pamphlets she authored will indicate the diversity of her topics: The Abiding Spirit, Good Form and Christian Etiquette, The Marble Cross and Other Poems, Studies in Home and Child Life, and The Unanswered Prayer. The death of this gifted, active minister in the year 1900 brought sorrow to countless people whom she had served in various ways. Mourners filled the Battle Creek Tabernacle for her funeral service. Afterward her influence lived on as other women were appointed to continue the work which she had established for mothers.(From a talk by Dr. E. D. Dick at Union College reunion held at the General Conference, June 30,1985; “Sister S. M. I. Henry,” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald (January 30, 1900): 64-69.) Anna M. Johnson Licensed minister 1881-1884 We have a limited amount of information concerning a licensed minister by the name of Mrs. A. M. Johnson, through the Archives’ list of women ministers and this letter from her granddaughter: My grandmother was a licensed minister in the Minnesota Conference in 1881. I am enclosing a copy of her license. She held evangelistic meetings. My grandfather helped by leading the music and offering prayer, but Grandma did the preaching. She was still preaching now and then in her local church when I was a young woman, and I have heard her preach. Sincerely your sister in Christ, Queda B. Bahnsen — Queda B. Bahnsen, Gresham, Oregon, letter to the author, August 1, 1984. Ellen S. Edmonds (Mrs. E. B.) Lane Licensed minister 1878-1889 While attending the State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ellen S. Edmonds and E. B. Lane became acquainted and were afterward married. This Seventh-day Adventist couple settled on a farm in Bedford Township, expecting to reside there for life. However, in the Review and Herald they read repeated urgent appeals for committed Adventists to enter the ministry to prepare people to meet their Lord. Praying earnestly for guidance from God, the Lanes put their little farm up for sale; within a week, they had a buyer. Still they would not decide until they had sought counsel from church leanders, particularly James and Ellen White. The Whites advised them to follow their 108