MaryAnn
John Remington, Martyr
John and his new wife, Mattie, have moved, together with Aunt Martha, to the city to pastor a church there. Their story continues in town, …
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. Luke Vol. 2
“Expository Thoughts” divides the Gospels into sections of about twelve verses each, from which J. C. Ryle selects two or three prominent po…
The Shepherd Psalm
Rev. F. B. Meyer, a contemporary of D. L. Moody, offers a series of reflections on the 23rd Psalm. (Summary by MaryAnn)
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John Vol. 2
The fourteen years which have "passed over" me since I first began writing on the Gospels, I humbly hope have not been thrown away…
Religions of Ancient China
Religions of Ancient China offers a comprehensive exploration of the diverse spiritual traditions that shaped Chinese civilization. Beginnin…
Hymns and Spiritual Songs
In sending forth a new collection of Hymns, I feel it necessary to preface the work by a few words of explanation. The volume now in the re…
Brewing
Brewing by Alfred Chaston Chapman delves into the intricate world of beer production, revealing its profound connections to scientific advan…
Eugene Onéguine
Eugene Oneguine is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary h…
Mind Amongst the Spindles
Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimac…
Friendship
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…
How to Pray
Pastor and evangelist R. A. Torrey considers the place and manner of constant, persistent, sleepless, overcoming prayer in the life of Chris…
Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers
Charles Edward Jefferson was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York for 33 years. In Quiet Hints, published in 1901, he pro…
Over Here and Over There
In publishing this book I have no intention whatsoever to offer a work of great literary value. As such it would undoubtedly be a failure, …
Israel: A Prince with God
An old-world story this! In its strange Eastern dress, it appears to be as remote from us as the garb of an Arab, or the barter of an Orien…
Mimosa, Who Was Charmed
“This story is true. It tells the eternally new tale of the matchless charm of our Lord Jesus Christ. One look at that loveliness, and, th…
Devotional Hours with the Bible, Vol 1
One way of studying the Bible is to get from it practical lessons from our daily life. This is the purpose that is in mind in this book. I…
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John Vol. 3
The volume now in the reader's hands completes a work which I began sixteen years ago, entitled "Expository Thoughts on the Gospels.&qu…
Chinese Poetry in English Verse (古今詩選)
Dear Land of Flowers, forgive me! -- that I tookThese snatches from thy glittering wealth of song, And twisted to the uses of a book Strains…
Companionable Books
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…
Only a Ghost! by Irenæus the Deacon
Baring-Gould's humorous observations on the various Christian sects to be found in "the most learned church in the most religious count…