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The Confessions (Pusey translation)
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography e…
The Old English Baron
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Clara Reeve
The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that the castle seat and estate of his frien…
The Street of Seven Stars
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Published in 1914, this novel tells the story of Harmony Wells, an innocent and beautiful American in Austria to study violin. Harmony has t…
The Uttermost Farthing
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R. Austin Freeman
Humphrey Challoner is a solitary old man who spent a lifetime collecting for his private museum, primarily mammals exhibiting osteological a…
The Man in Lower Ten
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Someone had to take the bank notes to Pittsburgh and take a statement from John Gilmore confirming that they were indeed forged. It was McKn…
The Chestermarke Instinct
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J. S. Fletcher
Bank manager John Hornbury is missing, as are securities and jewels from the bank’s vault. Gabriel Chestermarke and his nephew Joseph have u…
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…
Anna Karenina, Book 4
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Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 4, An…
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…
Anna Karenina, Book 8
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Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 8, Vr…
Brewing
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Alfred Chaston Chapman
Great as is the debt of gratitude which the brewing industry owes to the labours of scientific men, it has been more than repaid by the imme…
Anna Karenina, Book 7
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Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 7, Le…
The Upas Tree, A Christmas Story for all the Year
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Florence Louisa Barclay
Ronald West has a brilliant idea for his next novel, but to do it right, he wants to spend the next six months tramping around central Afric…
All of Grace
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Charles H. Spurgeon
HE WHO SPOKE and wrote this message will be greatly disappointed if it does not lead many to the Lord Jesus. It is sent forth in childlike d…
The Amazing Interlude
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle’s home, knitting a baby a…
The White Linen Nurse (version 2)
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, o…
The Midnight Passenger
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Richard Henry Savage
Randall Clayton was surrounded by enemies. His father’s business partner had looked after him in the years since his father’s death. But Hug…
The Port of Missing Men
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Meredith Nicholson
Shirley Claiborne is fascinated by the tall handsome man named John Armitage who seemed to follow her and her brother, Captain Claiborne, as…
Wherein?
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G. Campbell Morgan
These studies in the book of Malachi were delivered as addresses to the students at Mr. Moody’s Bible School in Chicago, and then to my own …
The Treasury of David, Vol. 6 (Abridged)
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Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among…
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. Matthew
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J. C. Ryle
“Expository Thoughts” divides the Gospels into sections of about twelve verses each, from which J. C. Ryle selects two or three prominent po…
The Princess Galva
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David Whitelaw
Edward Povey had been a correspondence clerk for twenty-two years when he was summarily dismissed. So how did he find himself mixed up with …
Anna Karenina (Dole translation)
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Leo Tolstoy
Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia. Anna awakes from a loveless marriage to find herself drawn …
The Lady from Nowhere
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Fergus Hume
A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case. (I…
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…
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. Mark
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J. C. Ryle
“Expository Thoughts” divides the Gospels into sections of about twelve verses each, from which J. C. Ryle selects two or three prominent po…
Eugene Onéguine
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Alexander Pushkin
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
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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…
War and Peace Vol. 1 (Dole Translation)
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Leo Tolstoy
”War and Peace” is a panoramic novel: It is its own justification, and perhaps needs no introduction. It always reminds the translator of a …
The Two Bears, and Other Sermons for Children
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J. C. Ryle
”Let no one make you think that you are too young to serve God. That is not true. As soon as you know right from wrong, you are old enough t…
Kitty Alone
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Sabine Baring-Gould
Kate Quarm is a bright and sensitive girl. She lives with her aunt and uncle at Coombe Cellers, a farmhouse, eating house and store occupyi…
A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians
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G. Campbell Morgan
G. Campbell Morgan was one of the leading evangelical preachers of his day. He began preaching at age 13 and by age 26 was teaching at the …
The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation
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J. S. Fletcher
Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a …
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. Luke Vol. 1
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J. C. Ryle
“Expository Thoughts” divides the Gospels into sections of about twelve verses each, from which J. C. Ryle selects two or three prominent po…
The Prayers of St Paul
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William H. Griffith Thomas
William Griffith Thomas was a pastor, teacher and co-founder of the Dallas Theological Seminary. This book contains nine devotional comment…
Dwellers in the Hills
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Melville Davisson Post
Ward was laid up after a mysterious accident when Woodford, a rival cattleman, demanded 600 head be delivered within 3 days under a contract…
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. Luke Vol. 2
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J. C. Ryle
“Expository Thoughts” divides the Gospels into sections of about twelve verses each, from which J. C. Ryle selects two or three prominent po…
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…
Great Astronomers
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Robert Stawell Ball
Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astro…
A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf
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John Muir
Muir was a preservationist and naturalist. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness…
Around the Wicket Gate
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Charles H. Spurgeon
Millions of men are in the outlying regions, far off from God and peace; for these we pray, and to these we give warning. But just now we h…
The Secret of Everyday Things
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Jean-Henri Fabre
The clearness, simplicity, and charm of the great French naturalist's style are nowhere better illustrated than in this work, which in its v…
The Borough Treasurer
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J. S. Fletcher
Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and Treasu…
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 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…
The Pilgrim's Progress (version 2)
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John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and originally published in F…
Hymns and Spiritual Songs
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J. C. Ryle
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…
Pearls
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William John Dakin
"The use of pearls as jewels and their recognition as objects of value date back into the far beyond when the histories of ancient peop…
The Directory of the Devout Life
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Frederick Brotherton Meyer
We can never allow the great objective facts of Christianity, and their attendant doctrines, to sink low on our horizon; but we must give eq…
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…
Eighteen Months in the War Zone: A Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front
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Kate John Finzi
"But it is not for those who heard the call in the later months so much as in memory of those early heroes of Mons, who knew the bitter…
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…
Physiology of the Opera
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John H. Swaby
Trust Scrici for a tell all, no holds barred exposé of the modern opera . . . well, modern as of . . . er . . . say, 1852. (Summary …
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…
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John Vol. 1
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J. C. Ryle
I send forth the volume now in the reader's hands, with much diffidence, and a very deep sense of responsibility. It is a peculiarly seriou…
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…
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…
History of the World War
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Francis Andrew March
This is a popular narrative history of the world's greatest war. Written frankly from the viewpoint of the United States and the Allies, it…
Religions of Ancient China
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Herbert Allen Giles
An overview of the religions of China, beginning with Fu Hsi, B.C. 2953-2838, and continuing through the 19th Century.
North and South (version 3)
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural so…
A Plain English Handbook: How to create clear SEC disclosure documents
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The Securities And Exchange Commission
The Plain Writing Act of 2010 (Act) is intended to make it easy for the public to understand government documents. The SEC, like other feder…
Chinese Poetry in English Verse (古今詩選)
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Herbert Allen Giles
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…
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…
Knots Untied
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J. C. Ryle
Being Plain Statements on Disputed Points in Religion, from the Standpoint of an Evangelical Churchman.The volume now in the reader's hands …
War and Peace Vol. 2 (Dole Translation)
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Leo Tolstoy
I am inclined to rank Count Tolstoy not among the realists or naturalists, but rather as an impressionist. He is often careless about accur…
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.
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…
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John Vol. 2
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J. C. Ryle
The fourteen years which have "passed over" me since I first began writing on the Gospels, I humbly hope have not been thrown away…
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…
Aunt Hannah and Martha and John
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Pansy
Aunt Hannah's fondest wish had been that her nephew John would marry a local girl and take over the family farm. Trouble was, John was neve…
The Practice of Prayer
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G. Campbell Morgan
God has made prayer possible to us through Jesus. We can pray prevailingly only as we respond to the truths which create the possibility. …
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…
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
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Reuben Archer Torrey
Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit Himself. A frequent source of error an…
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 Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith
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Reuben Archer Torrey
We were having a great many accessions to our church. While many of these came by letter form other churches, many of them were new convert…
Over Here and Over There
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Harry Zody
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, …
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John Vol. 3
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J. C. Ryle
The volume now in the reader's hands completes a work which I began sixteen years ago, entitled "Expository Thoughts on the Gospels.&qu…
The Sick Man's Comfort Book
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Phillip Bennett Power
Amongst the many wonderful truths which are spoken of God in the Bible, one of the most wonderful and beautiful is that He is a "God of…
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. …
A Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion
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Archibald Alexander
This book [was] written in war-time to minister comfort and, if it may be, to reinforce hope and faith. (from the Dedication)
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'…
Sermons to Children
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Sabine Baring-Gould
Twenty-three sermons where the truth to be taught is appended to a story as a Moral. Some of these sermons reflect the doctrines of infant …
A Plea for Ragged Schools; or, Prevention Better than Cure
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Thomas Guthrie
The Reverend Thomas Guthrie was first introduced to the idea of ragged schools in 1841, while acting as the Parish Minister of St. John's Ch…
The Man with the Red Beard, A Story of Moscow and London
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David Whitelaw
A journalist just back from a year covering the simmering, not-yet-revolution in Russia, a dissident (or is he a spy?) with a stolen gem, a …
The Angels' Song
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Thomas Guthrie
All of the earthly trappings of a royal birth were absent from the birth of Jesus, yet the angels filled the heavens with the song "Glo…
John Remington, Martyr
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Pansy
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, …
Israel: A Prince with God
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Frederick Brotherton Meyer
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…
Hours of Sorrow
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Charlotte Elliott
Poems from the author of the beloved hymn, "Just as I Am", chiefly adapted to seasons of sickness, depression and bereavement. Ell…
Mimosa, Who Was Charmed
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
“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…
Ponnamal, Her Story
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
"A girl stood alone in the dark, listening. No one moved about her; the old mother-in-law who slept near by breathed steadily, she wou…
The Bells of Is
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Frederick Brotherton Meyer
"It has always seemed to me, amid submerged masses, deep down at the bottom of the ocean of human life, there are yearnings and desires…
How to Pray
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Reuben Archer Torrey
Pastor and evangelist R. A. Torrey considers the place and manner of constant, persistent, sleepless, overcoming prayer in the life of Chris…
The Shepherd Psalm
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Frederick Brotherton Meyer
Rev. F. B. Meyer, a contemporary of D. L. Moody, offers a series of reflections on the 23rd Psalm. (Summary by MaryAnn)
Devotional Hours with the Bible, Vol 1
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James Russell Miller
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…
Devotional Hours with the Bible, Vol 2
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James Russell Miller
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. It …
Verses
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Frank H. Craig
Frank H. Craig (1859-1945) was superintendent of Wethersfield (Ill.) schools from 1903 to 1918. He later moved in Vermont and wrote prose a…
The Sacrifice of Praise
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Herman Bavinck
This book is of an intensely practical nature. The subject, as the headings of the twelve chapters indicate, is "Confession." We…