Home Words For Heart And Hearth 1894 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...to them that love Thee. O increase our faith and trustful reliance on Thy promises. Do Thou make the storm to be a calm, that the waves thereof may be still. Bid all our sorrows cease in Thine own good time, and may this light affliction, which is but for a moment, work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. We ask all, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. A PRAYER FOR A TIME OF TROUBLE. 139 but stern-looking man, with a repellant hard manner and an acrid voice. The wife had a sweet voice, a winning smile, and ready and obliging manners. Without being handsome, she was always so perfectly neat and well dressed that her appearance was most prepossessing. Being annually a visitor near her house, which was at a pleasant watering-place on the sea coast, I made her acquaintance, and had reason to be very interested in both husband and wife. In the first place, I must say Mr. Blent was better than his looks, as people often are. No lesson that wo learn in social life is more valuable than that which teaches us not to form unkind judgments from mere personal peculiarities. The hard nut has often a sweet kernel. But I am free to confess the world would most likely have gone hard with George Blent but for his wife's influence. She was not a clever woman. I do not think she could have established a shop, or learned a trade', and I am certain in these days she conld not have kept a school. Nor had she the force of character and calculating faculty possessed by Mrs. Pleclc Earning or saving on any very persistent plan was not her practice. And yet she was in a very true sense a Home Maker. From her childhood she had manifested a sweet unselfish temper. She had been an orphan from her earliest years, and a pious maiden aunt had brought her...