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Quilts, Their Story and How to Make Them

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Marie D. Webster


Although the quilt is one of the most familiar and necessary articles in our households, its story is yet to be told. In spite of its unive…

Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers

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Charles E. Jefferson


Charles Edward Jefferson was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York for 33 years. In Quiet Hints, published in 1901, he pro…

Joseph: Beloved, Hated, Exalted

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer


I remember seeing the huge Matterhorn reflected, in its minutest details, in a small mountain lakelet, many miles distant; and similarly, th…

C. H. Spurgeon's Prayers

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Charles H. Spurgeon


The day on which a volume of C. H. Spurgeon's Pulpit Prayers appears is a day to be desired. Decidedly this selection of the great preacher'…

The History of the English Bible

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John Brown


The celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version of the English Bible of 1611 has called into existence the little book here p…

Eyes Like the Sea

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Mór Jókai


He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. Sh…

Chinese Sketches

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Herbert Allen Giles


Herbert Giles was in the diplomatic service in China from 1867 to 1893. His frank observations on Chinese culture and people form the basis…

My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard

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Elizabeth Cooper


"I hope that this book, based on letters shown me many years after they were written, will give a faint idea of the life of a Chinese l…

The Valley of Vision

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Henry van Dyke


”Why do you choose such a title as The Valley of Vision for your book” said my friend; “do you mean that one can see farther from the valley…

Trees Every Child Should Know

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Julia Ellen Rogers


The best time to being to study the trees is to-day! The place to begin is right where you are, provided there is a tree near enough, for a…

A Happy Boy

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson


"A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjørnson's best story of peasant life. In it the aut…

Only a Ghost! by Irenæus the Deacon

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Sabine Baring-Gould


Baring-Gould's humorous observations on the various Christian sects to be found in "the most learned church in the most religious count…

Prevailing Prayer: What Hinders It?

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Dwight L. Moody


The two first and essential means of grace are the Word of God and Prayer. These two means of grace must be used in their right proportion. …

Lyrics from the Chinese

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Helen Waddell


Thirty-six short Chinese poems from the 12th to the 7th Century B.C. are translated into English by Irish Poet Helen Waddell. Summary by Ma…

Companionable Books

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Henry van Dyke


Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…

The Sword of Deborah

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F. Tennyson Jesse


"The Sword of Deborah" contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during Wor…

Mind Amongst the Spindles

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Charles Knight


Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimac…

An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army

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Flora Sandes


Flora Sandes was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she trave…

Friendship

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Hugh Black


The idea, so common in the ancient writers, is not all a poetic conceit, that the soul of a man is only a fragment of a larger whole, and go…

Collection of Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord

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John Wesley


A collection of poems reflecting on Christmas and the New Year, written by the founder of the Methodist denomination.

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