This Week's Story

I shall put you into the asylum! part seven

Discover fascinating people and ideas in American history and the Bible through short stories on This Week's Story mp3 audio and text for reading.

While Elizabeth Packard discovers abuse to patients, she shines God's hope to them, which puts her into jeopardy.

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A year before the American Civil War exploded, Elizabeth Packard was put into the Jacksonville Insane Asylum in 1860. Was she insane? No! Could she think clearly and communicate well? For sure! She was dynamite as a speaker! Persuasive!

That did not mean everyone listening to her agreed with her...

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