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Called By God
detect that she had applied for “retirement” in 1963 at the age of 70. (Sustentation Fund
Application Form, submitted January 28, 1963. General Conference Archives.)
Mary Walsh was a licensed minister from 1921 to 1981. Then, after 60 years of
being a licensed minister alongside the men, she was moved into a status created
primarily for women in ministry and men in non-ministerial positions, that of a licensed
commissioned minister. (See footnote 2 on page 210 for a discussion of this change in credentialing.) This did not disturb her. She remained consumed with her calling from the
Lord to share the gospel.
Concerning her work after she had reached her 90s, compared with the heavy and
wide-ranging responsibilities she had carried and the wide areas she had traveled in the
past, Miss Walsh said,
I’m just in a little corner. Bu t I ask the Lord to keep me living, and my
mind clear, as long as I’m able to function and bring souls into the
message.That’s the only thing worth living for. What have I lived for all
these years? For the work of God.
—Mary Walsh, Glendale, California, telephone
conversation with the author, July 20, 1989.
The coming of the Lord has ever been central in her thinking. The message into
which she has brought hundreds of converts will march on triumphant, victorious, to
the end of time—never has there been a doubt in her mind. From the year of her own
conversion she has consistently given her entire life to bring others to rejoice with her
in worshiping the lovely Jesus. (Mary Walsh died in Glendale, California, September 21,
1997 at the age of 105.)

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