MEADVILLE, Pa. (PRWEB) June 27, 2018
“Saint of the Wilderness” is an absorbing biographical novel of the life and ministry of Robert Sayers Sheffey. “Saint of the Wilderness” is the creation of published author Jess Carr, a prize-winning novelist and nonfiction writer born in Virginia who saw many of his works go on to win national acclaim and screenplay adaptation before his passing in 1990. Carr is survived by his three daughters, who republish this work, his fourth, posthumously.
Carr writes vividly about Sheffey’s defining missions: “The route he had planned to take was the one that roughly paralleled the route of the Union soldiers when they had swept down upon southwest Virginia. Along this way the people seemed more despairing and downtrodden. There were families who still had not recovered from having all their grain stolen, their fences destroyed, and every farm animal, including the family milk cow, stolen. Those people who had not suffered from foraging enemy soldiers had, on occasion, suffered at the hands of marauding bands of scavenger troops.
‘We’ll cheer them up, Gideon,’ Robert said to his animal as they turned west along Walker’s Creek and up the Holston turn pike. ‘You move along gently now while I study Acts. We’ll preach to them about Paul’s sea journey to Italy—when he went to appear before Caesar. Why, Gideon, that whole shipload of people were nearly torn apart by the tempest upon the sea, and they thought themselves lost forever, or certain to starve to death. But Paul told them to be of good cheer, for God was with them in their moment of despair. That’s what we’ve got to do, Gideon, tell them all God is with them and to be of good cheer.’”
Republished by Christian Faith Publishing, Jess Carr’s book is a beautifully detailed, intimate journey of the eighty-two years in the personal life of this greatly adored, unique icon of Methodist Christian history.
Carr’s words paint a living, breathing portrait of a man after God’s own heart, who, with an unfathomable depth of compassion and astounding prophetic talents, remains an inspiring example to all of mankind.
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