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"Once more the genius of Boreham is manifested in a series of discourses that will charm and edify. Those who have been keeping up with the Boreham series will recall with delight his book called 'A Bunch of Everlastings.' which is a volume of sermons based upon 'texts that have made history,' texts which have been more of less closely identified with the careers of a number of notable personages. This book, 'A Handful of Stars,' is a companion to 'A Bunch of Everlastings,' the author remarking about it that 'it is not good that a book should be alone.' It is a series of discourses flowing out of 'texts that have moved great minds,' and there are twenty-one persons and their texts included in the series...He brings these personages of flesh and blood or of fiction into being again, and derives from them an interpretation of some conspicuous portion of the Holy Scriptures to which he gives his own touch of spiritual vitalization and illumination. This book, the latest addition to the Boreham series, makes a particular appeal to preachers, who will come to it like thirsty travelers to a spring of sweet and refreshing water; but it does not lack in any respect in its appeal to any and every reader who has an open mind to the divine truth, who is touched with the deeper human sympathies, who appreciates literary and artistic values, and who is receptive to spiritual impressions and convictions arising from a wise, human and sympathetic interpretation of God's Word." -The Christian Advocate
"From far lands of fancy, of thought, and of reading, he has brought rare and precious treasures. He is so easy to read that you do not discover, until afterwards, how recondite are many of his allusions, how varied and how unusual are his sources in books and in vital experience....He is a delightful converser, using his pen in lieu of his tongue." -The Methodist Review
"Anything F. W. Boreham, the Australian, ever wrote is a joy forever. His volumes of whimsical, humorous, kindly, rich, spiritual essays are every one of them just what heart's desire would prescribe." -The Rev. Phillips Endecott Osgood, Rector of St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, Minneapolis
Contents
I. William Penn's Text
II. Robinson Crusoe's Text
III. James Chalmers' Text
IV. Sydney Carton's Text
V. Ebenezer Erskine's Text
VI. Doctor Davidson's Text
VII. Henry Martyn's Text
VIII. Michael Trevanion's Text
IX. Hudson Taylor's Text
X. Rodney Steele's Text
XI. Thomas Huxley's Text
XII. Walter Petherick's Text
XIII. Doctor Blund's Text
XIV. Hedley Vicars' Text
XV. Silas Wright's Text
XVI. Michael Faraday's Text
XVII. Janet Dempster's Text
XVIII. Catherine Booth's Text
XIX. Uncle Tom's Text
XX. Andrew Bonar's Text
XXI. Francis d'Assisi's Text
XXII. Everybody's Text
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About the Author:
Frank William Boreham was a Baptist preacher best known in New Zealand, Australia, and England. He was one of 10 children. Boreham heard the great American preacher Dwight L. Moody during his youth. Boreham wrote some 3,000 editorials that appeared in the Hobart Mercury every week for 47 years between 1912-1959, and others in the Melbourne Age. He was calling on these works for yet another book, with one article for each day of the year, when he died.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1533638705
- ISBN 13 9781533638700
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages236
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