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. 1918 Excerpt: ...he whispered softly, 'God everywhere!' Then into his tired brain came a new phrase--'Underneath are the everlasting arms.'" Over and over he half chanted the words, till, hours later, the moon sank and his companions could steal out in the darkness and carry him to safety. "He will never again be sound of limb; but ...
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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. 1918 Excerpt: ...he whispered softly, 'God everywhere!' Then into his tired brain came a new phrase--'Underneath are the everlasting arms.'" Over and over he half chanted the words, till, hours later, the moon sank and his companions could steal out in the darkness and carry him to safety. "He will never again be sound of limb; but there is in his memory and in his heart that which may make him a stanch fighter in other fields. He has learnt a new way of prayer, and a courage that is born of faith well founded." From A Student in Arms, by Donald Hankey, E. P. Button, -. 133. From A Student in Arms, by Donald Hankey, E. P. Dutton, p. 152. INTERESTS AS SOURCES OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS Some years ago a doctor called to see a young medical student and found him with high fever and severe rheumatism. "Progressive arthritis," thought the doctor, "the lad will be permanently crippled." "You must do no work at all," he said aloud. "Take a complete rest. Get out in the country if possible and eat a lot of nourishing food." Excellent and useless advice was this, as the doctor soon saw. The boy was working his way through the school. He could not afford cream and oil or country life. Still less could he buy rest for his body or soul when his mind was restlessly pacing the future. The student grew decidedly worse. Next time the doctor came he gave very different advice. "Get up and go back to your laboratory work in the Medical School. Try it and see if you can stand it. I'll look out for your tuition fee." The work was difficult enough to the crippled, muscleless hands of the student, but under its influence he grew astonishingly better. As he forgot himself in his tasks, his body, too, seemed to drop its burden. His...
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Add this copy of Our Part in the World to cart. $29.00, good condition, Sold by Bookrescue rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1918 by Beacon Press.
Add this copy of Our Part in the World to cart. $57.08, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
