Photo by Zen Page 08 Table of Contents Becoming a Christian At the age of twenty-one, he was singing in the choir of the Congregational Church in Springfield when God spoke to his heart. . . . he knelt by his bed, asking forgiveness, and receiving the blessed assurance of Christ’s presence. He wrote in his memoirs, “The next few days were some of the happiest of my life.” Albert Starr Spaulding and Nellie Lock Burrows Albert Starr married Nellie Locke Burrows on January 2, 1890, in Canton, Missouri; both of them were twenty-four years of age. They went to St. Augustine, Florida, for their honeymoon. He took his bride to Kearney, Nebraska, and soon moved to Rogers, Nebraska, organizing banks . . . Previous Page Next Page Index