The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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well stored mind enabled her, upon religious and social questions, and to some extent political questions, to enter into conversation with zest. Several intelligent men and ministers spoke of her as possessing conversational powers which enabled her to take part in discussions upon ordinary questions. A young intelligent Independent minister who often came to preach on a week night at the Lodge, on one occasion, found a Baptist Magazine on the table. It led him to make an inquiry about the Baptists when to his surprise he found she was a Baptist. They fell into a warm discussion upon the subject. Of course the old proverb was proved true:- “Convince a man against his will, he is of the same opinion still.” I expect they retired from the contest each claiming the victory. I am pretty sure my mother would, for she was well posted up in the

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