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Excerpt from My Wonder Book: Pages From the Life of Lewis Benton Bates
The Inner Life of an old-time Minister might well be the title of this delightful biography. The phrase occurs in a letter written by the author to the one who writes these introductory pages, and it happily describes the contents of this book.
No stale and dry genealogical details are here recorded of ancestors near or remote, in which the reader, by no stretch of courtesy, can be interested; no interminable list of honors and achievements, though Dr. Bates has many to record; no wearisome letters, of interest only to personal friends, but every page of this volume is palpitating with matters of genuine human interest.
Whether the author tells of her grandfather''s single-handed encounter with the rough who tried to break up the camp meeting, or of the same old Cape Cod circuit rider''s faith when the family larder was reduced to five potatoes; or to her father''s own experience in bringing Christmas cheer and pardon to an unjustly convicted prisoner, the story is always fresh, racy and well told, and, better than all, points its own moral, yet with little attempt at moralizing.
We hear much about human documents in these days, and the phrase is used to cover all sorts of humanand inhuman experiences. Each chapter of this book is a genuine human document of the best sort. It breathes the real life of a real man. Better than this, each chapter reveals and justifies the ways of God with man, and shows how the Father in Heaven cares for His children in all their perplexities, anxieties and troubles.
It is a book that pre-eminently stimulates faith in God and faith in man, or at least in the kind of men who live the simple, unselfish, heroic lives here depicted.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Inner Life of an old-time Minister might well be the title of this delightful biography. The phrase occurs in a letter written by the author to the one who writes these introductory pages, and it happily describes the contents of this book.
No stale and dry genealogical details are here recorded of ancestors near or remote, in which the reader, by no stretch of courtesy, can be interested; no interminable list of honors and achievements, though Dr. Bates has many to record; no wearisome letters, of interest only to personal friends, but every page of this volume is palpitating with matters of genuine human interest.
Whether the author tells of her grandfather''s single-handed encounter with the rough who tried to break up the camp meeting, or of the same old Cape Cod circuit rider''s faith when the family larder was reduced to five potatoes; or to her father''s own experience in bringing Christmas cheer and pardon to an unjustly convicted prisoner, the story is always fresh, racy and well told, and, better than all, points its own moral, yet with little attempt at moralizing.
We hear much about human documents in these days, and the phrase is used to cover all sorts of humanand inhuman experiences. Each chapter of this book is a genuine human document of the best sort. It breathes the real life of a real man. Better than this, each chapter reveals and justifies the ways of God with man, and shows how the Father in Heaven cares for His children in all their perplexities, anxieties and troubles.
It is a book that pre-eminently stimulates faith in God and faith in man, or at least in the kind of men who live the simple, unselfish, heroic lives here depicted.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Emma May Bates Harvey
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780331087833
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Page Count - 245
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Emma May Bates Harvey
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781332758913
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Page Count - 247
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