Fraser: Not A Private Matter
A Human Story of Grace and Suffering
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Weight | 0.48 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.5 × 5.4 × 0.5 in |
ISBN | 9780851518473 |
Binding | Paperback |
Topic | Life Issues, 20th century, Pastoral Biography |
Original Pub Date | 2003 |
Banner Pub Date | Nov 30, 2003 |
Page Count | 160 |
Format | Book |
Book Description
Why did God allow a talented young man, at the beginning of his Christian ministry, to be struck down by disease? In this story from the early days of kidney transplant surgery, Fraser Tallach gives a frank and moving account of his long battle with kidney failure, while his brother John gives the background to the story and recounts Fraser’s later days. The pain Fraser was called on to endure was mental and spiritual as well as physical, but in it all he found, like the Apostle Paul, that God’s grace was sufficient for him, and that God’s strength was made perfect in his weakness (2 Cor. 12:9). Anyone can be called to suffer. God alone can give the grace we need to carry us through. ‘The grace of God, though given in a way which is intimately personal, is not a private matter’ (John Tallach).
Table of Contents Expand ↓
Dedication | vii | |
A Word of Explanation | ix | |
PART ONE: FAMILY BACKGROUND | ||
1 | Forebears | 3 |
2 | Mother’s Conversion | 9 |
3 | Courtship – Elizabeth Fraser and James Tallach | 11 |
4 | Marriage | 15 |
5 | Kames | 17 |
6 | Stornoway | 20 |
7 | An Uncertain Future – and a Call to Canada | 26 |
PART TWO: FRASER | ||
Foreword to Part Two | 31 | |
8 | The Discovery | 33 |
9 | The Homecoming | 42 |
10 | Clipped Wings | 48 |
11 | No Fixed Abode | 58 |
12 | Love Is Strong as Death | 66 |
13 | My Underworld | 74 |
14 | Brothers in Unity | 84 |
15 | Of Diet and Dialysis | 93 |
16 | Those Who Stand and Wait | 103 |
17 | The Gift | 114 |
18 | Looking Back | 123 |
PART THREE: THE STORY CONTINUED | ||
19 | Fraser’s Later Years | 131 |
20 | In Loving Memory: Poems by David Tallach | 141 |
21 | Mother – The Last Lap | 146 |
Illustrations | ||
Frontispiece: Fraser, graduation in Arts, University of Edinburgh. | ||
Between pages 54 and 55: | ||
Family group, Tighnabruaich, 1951: | ||
Back row – Fraser, Rev. James Tallach, Elizabeth Tallach, Andrew; | ||
Front row – John, James, Cameron | ||
Fraser in Canada, 1965. | ||
Fraser and Mother. | ||
Fraser, John and James. |
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Description
An account of Fraser Tallach’s long battle with kidney failure — ‘A Human Story of Grace and Suffering.’ 160pp.
Description
An account of Fraser Tallach’s long battle with kidney failure — ‘A Human Story of Grace and Suffering.’ 160pp.
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