Miriam Gone Home

This posthumous publication is a memoir of the life of Sister Huggins, a pastor, mother, teacher and friend. Part I of Miriam Gone Home takes the reader through the life of a young woman from Brown Hill, Nevis who found her calling at a very young age. Following three years at Bible College in Kingston, Jamaica, she returned to Nevis to take up an appointment in Newcastle, Nevis. This part of the book tells of life in Newcastle after marriage, the births of six children and of the problems in the Church. As a teenager Miriam Powell, played the organ and wrote music. There is a collection of both family photos and some of the congregation of Evangelistic Faith Church at the end of this secion. Part II brings to life the move to Sandy Point, Saint Christopher (St.Kitts), where life was a novelty in many ways. For the young children, there was nothing like having electricity, indoor running water and cars on nicely paved roads. For the parents, you will read of the trying period, which led to excommunication and the miraculous departure of Rev. Charles Huggins to North America. Left alone to face the fray, she moved with the six children to a new house, four lots up. Several members of the congregation left the Church. You will read of how they came together and five years later, built a new Church to call their own. Several of her hymns were published and are included at the end of this section of the book. In PART III, you follow Miriam, with Dorette and Dwight as they join the rest of the family in Toronto in 1974. Then in 1978 sickness came. You will learn that by the time the diagnosis of colon cancer was made, she had a quiet assurance of what it was. In the final chapter, Dorette writes of her mother's chemotherapy treatments, the prognosis and her passing on August 21, 1980.