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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1873. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Savior to lead him; he would keep quite near the straight road for a whole day, and then he would do something wrong and go away down like this; but one day, after he was almost discouraged in trying to help himself, the Savior kept whispering, 'Come to me, I will help you,' and after thinking it all over he quite decided to go, and that very hour he went up this way." And as Dell's pencil touched the firm straight line, her little friend, who had been growing more eager and interested every moment, suddenly broke the stillness by exclaiming, "He's in! He's in! Oh, I am so glad." The bell rang below, and Dell's half hour was gone; she had done her best, with what result, God knew. CHAPTER VIII. "The steps of a good mnn are ordered by the Lord." /IlIHE cracked bell in the old church steeple f|| clanged faithfully on that Friday evening, ^jr Dell attended to the matter; she went herself to the sexton, and coaxed him into promising to ring it for just ten minutes. She stood in the hall all ready with one exception. She had failed to secure the promised " one anyway," as a surety of an audience. She had tried several persons, but they all with one accord began to make excuse'. As she stood leaning against the doorway, wondering if there was not another last effort that she could make somewhere, a bright thought came to her. Sam Miller was at that moment sawing wood out in the wood-yard; she could hear the lazy motion of his saw scraping back and forth. She could ask him. Of course it was more than likely that he wouldn't go; but it could do no harm to try; she ran out to him. "Sam," she said, gathering up her dainty. dress and poising herself on an unsawn stick of wood, "I've come after you. I want you to go to the temperance meeting with me tonight; will you?" Sam ...
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Isabella Macdonald (1841–1930) was born in Rochester, New York, into a well-educated and religious family. The nickname "Pansy" was given to her by her father, because she picked pansies in her childhood. She attended school at Seneca Collegiate Institute at Ovid, New York, and then at Young Ladies Institute, Auburn, New York. In 1866, she married Gustavus Rosenberg Alden, a Presbyterian minister. She communicated the Gospel through writing Sunday-school lessons, magazine articles, and hundreds of stories in her lifetime.
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151071676
- ISBN 13 9781151071675
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages60
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