Introduction

Biography

May was the daugh­ter of Ro­bert Ag­new and Em­i­ly Bol­lard, and wife of Har­old Ste­phens (mar­ried 1902).

She joined the Sal­va­tion Ar­my in New York’s 3 Corps in 1890. She helped ed­it The War Cry, and worked on the train­ing home staff and in the Can­di­dates De­part­ment.

Around 1897, she be­gan serv­ing as song lead­er and pi­an­ist at the Gos­pel Tab­er­na­cle with Al­bert Sim­pson. Two years lat­er, she helped found the Eighth Ave­nue Mis­sion.

For the next two and half de­cades, she and her hus­band Har­old were tra­vel­ing ev­an­gel­ists in Am­er­ica, Ca­na­da and Bri­tain.

Works

• Missionary Mes­sag­es in Song, cir­ca 1910