This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...misdeeds from his father, and he never suspected how far his son had already wandered in the paths of the destroyer. In his presence the evil propensities were restrained, and he knew not that the seed, which daily he scattered with a gentle and judicious hand at the morning and evening worship, was falling on ground ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...misdeeds from his father, and he never suspected how far his son had already wandered in the paths of the destroyer. In his presence the evil propensities were restrained, and he knew not that the seed, which daily he scattered with a gentle and judicious hand at the morning and evening worship, was falling on ground so preoccupied with thorns and thistles, that it would need to be subjected to the hottest fire of affliction before the evil plants could be destroyed, and the good seed have room to grow. "But if it was choked in her brother's heart, it grew early and rapidly in Anna's. She was her father's comfort, and I can bless God now that he had her to comfort him, though she put me to shame. She was scarcely more than a child, when she first began trying to supply her mother's place in the household. I was now really an invalid, made one by selfishness and long indulgence. Self-created invalids are generally irritable and exacting, but Anna bore it all, and helped her father to bear it likewise; and often when he returned home weary and worn down from his work, grieved at contentions and jealousies, and pride and worldliness, and bearing the burden of the afflicted in his sympathizing heart, her loving looks and gentle words would raise him above present troubles, and send him with renewed 'assurance of hope, ' to the throne of heavenly grace. "Yet he looked at her with trembling, and selfish as I was, so did I. She was still a tender blossom, nor did we dare to hope that she ever would be otherwise. She alone seemed unconscious of danger, and walked on from day to day in the sunlight of her heavenly Father's love, and happy in her earthly father's smiles. We urged her to leave us on a visit to a friend who had invited her to spend a month or ...
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