Category: Biographies
The man whose early life was passed in the isolation of primeval forests, and who grew to manhood carrying on an unceasing struggle to turn the rough, uncultivated soil into productive fields, gardens, and pasture-lands, has worked into his life something which no coming gener...
Eli and Sybil Jones were most cordially liberated by Friends for the work in Europe, which was shown them as a field white unto harvest in which they were called to labor. They...
7. CHAPTER VI.There is wonderful harmony in God's work in the different kingdoms and sub-kingdoms of His domain. When His method of working is resisted, there is always harsh conflicting, and...
8. CHAPTER VII."Their single aim the purpose to fulfil Of truth from day to day; Simply obedient to its guiding will, They held their pilgrim way. Yet dream not hence the beautiful and old Wer...
10. CHAPTER IX.Before going on to speak of the work of Eli and Sybil Jones among the Friends and other Protestants in the south of France, a brief sketch of the rise and growth of the little b...
15. CHAPTER XIV.The cause for which the two Friends came to England before fully accomplishing their work in Syria was the extreme feebleness of Sybil Jones. A change and partial rest seemed im...
12. CHAPTER XI."Follow with reverent steps the great example Of Him whose holy work was 'doing good;' So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple, Each loving life a psalm of gratitude. T...
16. CHAPTER XV."For ever blessed be His name who bore Her blood-washed, white-robed spirit on and on, Through dark, deep waters to the radiant shore, Her warfare ended and the victory won.
9. CHAPTER VIII.Eli and Sybil Jones attended the London yearly meeting of 1853, and were liberated to go to the Continent for gospel work in Norway, Germany, and France. Mary James Lecky was th...
5. CHAPTER IV."He who in glory did on Horeb's height Descend to Moses in the bush of flame, And bade him go and stand in Pharaoh's sight-- Who once to Israel's pious shepherd came, And sent h...
13. CHAPTER XII.There was comparatively little known among Friends about the land of the Bible from personal observation before 1870, and some of the best works on the history, the geography, t...
4. CHAPTER III."I see in the world the intellect of man, That sword, the energy his subtle spear, The knowledge which defends him like a shield-- Everywhere; but they make not up, I think, The...
20. CHAPTER XIX.The people of a city or country in which is some great natural wonder or some magnificent work of man become so accustomed to its grandeur that only the largest-minded of them c...
3. CHAPTER II.The opportunities for study in China were not enough to satisfy a boy with even a moderately strong desire for knowledge. Books were as rare as in the days before John Gutenberg...
2. CHAPTER I.The man whose early life was passed in the isolation of primeval forests, and who grew to manhood carrying on an unceasing struggle to turn the rough, uncultivated soil into pro...
11. CHAPTER X.The first decided action of the Maine Legislature in regard to the sale of intoxicating liquors was taken in the autumn of 1846. Much work had been done during the two preceding...
19. CHAPTER XVIII."God's own hand must lay the axe of inward crucifixion unsparingly at the root of the natural life; God in Christ, operating in the person of the Holy Ghost, must be the princip...
18. CHAPTER XVII.The later visits of Eli Jones to Palestine and their object have already been spoken of. With an accurate knowledge of the land and its customs, as well as of the needs of its p...
17. CHAPTER XVI.It need not be told, and it could not, how the loss of his wife affected Eli Jones, already venerable with age. Those only who have borne a like sorrow know the depth of the wou...
6. CHAPTER V."I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find any way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that: I...
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