A young man accepted for the African missionary field reported at New York for “passage” but found on further examination that his wife could not stand the climate. He was heartbroken, but he prayerfully returned to his home and determined to make all the money he could to be used in spreading the Kingdom of God over the world. His father, a dentist, had started to make, on the side, an unfermented wine for the communion service. The young man took the business over and developed it until it assumed vast proportions… his name was “Welch,” whose family still manufactures “grape juice.” Charles Welch has given literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to the work of missions.
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Holwick: can anyone verify this? The connection with Welch’s Grape Juice and communion is well established but I cannot find a reference to his aborted missionary career.