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Anna Knight,Anna Knight Model:Knight, Anna was a little girl with an amazing appetite for knowledge. She was born in 1874 in the liberated slaves in Mississippi, and she grew up before moving to the rhythm of work.

Anna’s mother to exist as a sharecropper in Jasper County. As an energetic and disciplined labor thrift, Ms. Knight managed to get 80 acres of land. Later, she and her children homesteaded another 80 acres adjacent. What a cow, horse, and oxen, several generations of families grew their own food and cotton for cash crops. But a small amount of cash was missing.

The Knights could not afford the “extras” such as pens and paper, not to mention books and magazine subscriptions. Ms. Knight and her brood did surprisingly well for land acquisition and livestock.1 Without textbooks and stationery, Anna searched for a creative means to satisfy its seemingly insatiable desire to learn. Despite the length of the working day, sometimes on Sunday, Anna did not get a little free time. When this happened, she managed to escape, and to visit a friend who was so lucky as to own books. Anna offered to help do the job, if one, in exchange, teach her to read.

Anna was ready to share with their sisters, nieces and nephews that she had learned. After nailing boards together, Anna blackened them with wet soot, and when it is hand-boards have been thoroughly dried, she wrote on her natural chalk dug from the mud bank. She put the other children to work, copying in the sand, numbers and letters that she typed on the board.

For the rest, Anna loved participate and assist in the organization, a neighborhood of spelling bees, which took place on Sunday. She must have competed very well.

Reading almost everything that she can get her hands, Anna noticed advertising magazine for children their age. She wanted more than anything in the world. Some, as she pleaded with her mother in letting her have the dollar must subscribe, but firmly told never to ask for a dollar a wasteful luxury.

From her journal, Anna knew how she could get free samples of catalogs, articles, and even the occasional book. Very nice, she got a friend to write the necessary letter of request. Soon she receives many letters. If the catalog was the script of the press, Anna took him outside and sincerely practiced writing in the sand.

Anna received a sample copy of a paper called comfort. After reading it, she really wanted to subscribe. She knew that it makes no sense to ask his mother for 25 cents a subscription price, and it earned him more work to harvest cotton.

In one question Comfort Anna found notice that it seemed exactly suited to its needs. It is copied verbatim, except for replacement of his name. Her request read: “Will some of the cousins [readers] Please send me some interesting reading material?” I would like to correspond with those of my age. ” Now, the mailbox has been busier than ever, Anna received 40 responses.

Edith Embree, Seventh-day Adventist young woman, Anna saw the request. She belonged to the Young People’s Literature correspondence Band. The Holy Spirit gave Miss Embree to the notice of Anna the opportunity to bring someone to Christ. She worked at the Sign of the times and sent a copy of Anne of the magazine, as well as various other ways and doctrinal books. During the period Edith not only sent the literature, but also wrote letters asking Anna to answer some of the articles, she was glad to do.

When Anna read these Seventh Day Adventists and relevant publications from Edith Embree about 6 months, she decided that we should live in accordance with the truths found in the newspapers. She did not know that the group has published materials, which she read. Because the teachings were of the Bible, she complied.

Anna began to observe Saturday as the Sabbath, because this is what the Bible teaches. When she told her family that she now rested on the seventh day, and not on the first, they were terribly upset. They suspect that much reading and study had brought her “out of my head.” Anna form of savings. She and her brother, as a result of much hard work, belonging to the bales of cotton between them. Anna used the proceeds from her half to go to Chattanooga for further study.

It may seem strange that she would go all the way from Mississippi to Tennessee to teach. Nevertheless, the Seventh Day Adventists and members of the churches were few and scattered in the south at the end of the last century. There were no conferences on the whole area in the southern states at that time was named “field missions” at par.

Miss Anna Embree helped to come into contact with a loving family of Seventh Day Adventists, with whom she could stay. The young convert was good training, and she was baptized Seventh-day Adventist while in Chattanooga.

Aglow its commitment to follow Christ, Anna returned home to Mississippi. She immediately ran into difficulties. First, because Anna liked to run the plow in the lines for many years the family depends on her to do plowing. Now suppose that you can not plow on Saturday, Anna asked for permission to work on Sunday. She tried to reason with her mother, explaining why her conscience would not allow her to work on Saturday. Not being able to read, seemed to connect disappointment Ms. Knight. Strong-willed woman, she flew into a rage. She insisted that she was a mom, Anna, and that she could teach her mother, Anna would have to abandon this weekend in stupidity or leave the house.