Who was Grace Saxe, C. 1913?

The Times Leader. Wed, Feb 19, 1913 ·Page 7

WITH BILLY SUNDAY. MISS GRACE SAXE, BIBLE INSTRUCTOR, HAS HAD INTERESTING CAREER

Miss Grace Saxe, who is with the Billy Sunday party, is a woman of wonderful ability and accomplishments. She is the bible instructor and organizes and teaches bible classes during the campaign.

Miss Saxe was in Egypt doing missionary work when Colonel Roosevelt was there and was sent up the Nile to meet him to take notes of his speeches which he made at the different mission stations. She was with him two weeks.

Miss Saxe, whose full name is Nettie Grace Saxe, was born and reared at Fort Scott, Kansas. When she was nine years of age her mother died. Her uncle, Colonel Chaddock, took her upon her father again marrying and from then on, as Miss Saxe says, she had no home.

She completed her education at the Kansas Normal College, at Fort Scott. Her brother, who conducted a business college, taught her stenography when she was nine years old, and when she left the normal college she became a court reporter in St. Louis. While reporting some meetings which Dr. A. B. Simpson was conducting at that time she became converted.

Desiring to know more about the bible, she took a course of bible study at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for two years, after which she joined the forces of Charles Alexander and Dr. Torrey. She was with the party during the evangelistic campaign through England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, where she taught the bible.

At Birmingham, England, she organized what is to-day the largest bible study class in the world, which numbers 4,500 men and women. For two years she conducted this class herself. Returning to this country she rested for a short time and then went to Egypt to do missionary work. While there the mission board cabled for her to go up the Nine to meet Colonel Roosevelt.

She later taught the missionaries at Cairo and soon went to Palestine, where she spent several months. From there she went to Damascus, going through Italy and France on her return to America. She joined the Sunday party two years ago.