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The Palace of Glass and the Gathering of the People
by John StoughtonFive centuries ago there might have been seen in the streets of old London, one of those gifted mortals who are now and then sent into the world by the Father of spirits, to stamp their name upon the age in which they live, and to enshrine its memory amidst the splendours of their own genius. With a deep and luminous insight into the scenes o..
The Maid of Orleans
by Friedrich HenningThe life story of Joan of Arc, as told in this volume, closely follows the historical facts as well as the official records bearing upon her trial and burning for “heresy, relapse, apostasy, and idolatry.” It naturally divides into two parts. First, the simple pastoral life of the shepherd maiden of Domremy, which is charmingly portrayed; the visio..
An Almond for a Parrot - Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate
by John PetheramNash was of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and took his degree of B.A. in 1585. He is supposed to have quitted the university in some disgrace about 1586, but of the cause we are entirely ignorant. The anonymous author of a tract called “Polymanteia,” printed in 1595, thus alludes to it: “Cambridge, make thy two children friends; thou hast been unk..
Joseph and His Brethren
by W. K. TweedieThe story of Joseph is at once so simple that childhood is arrested and rivetted by it, and so profound that sages may deepen their wisdom by meditating on the truths which it embodies. An attempt is here made to point out some of the more important lessons which the narrative teaches,—to manifest the wisdom and the watchfulness of Providence,—and ..
Wesley's Designated Successor
by Luke TyermanJean Guillaume de la Flechere, wrote Robert Southey, “was a man of rare talents, and rarer virtue. No age or country has ever produced a man of more fervent piety, or more perfect charity; no Church has ever possessed a more apostolic minister. He was a man of whom Methodism may well be proud, as the most able of its defenders; and whom the Church ..
Plet - A Christmas Tale of the Wasatch
by Alfred LambourneA tale from out my western life you say?Something to while the Christmas Eve away;And something, too, to suit this festal time,With two old bachelors, long past their prime,Who as they sip in solitude their wine,Are filled with memories of Auld Lang Syne?Well,—I grant it. Yet why did you add,Something to suit the time? I shall be glad—But was the l..
The Book of Christmas
by Various AuthorsCAROLS are still sung in almost numberless churches, lights glow on altars bound and wreathed with spruce and holly, trees are set up in innumerable homes, and mobs of merry children sing and dance around them, stockings take on grotesque shapes and hang gaping with treasures for early marauders on Christmas morning, and hosts of men and women keep..
The Child and the Dream - A Christmas Story
by Marion Cook StowThis, little Dear-My-Love, is the story of a Child whom I am sure you would have loved. For people did love her very much, she was so quaint and dear. She was a remarkably bright Child and the beauty of her being bright was that she did not know it. She did bright things and said bright things and it never entered her mind to marvel at her own clev..