Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
AUTUMN winds were blowing in Northcliffe, and the streets and lanes were thickly strewn with the fallen leaves. It was a cold, damp afternoon, and everything looked dull and cheerless—everything and everybody, with one exception, and that was a boy about twelve years of age wh...
AUTUMN winds were blowing in Northcliffe, and the streets and lanes were thickly strewn with the fallen leaves. It was a cold, damp afternoon, and everything looked dull and che...
2. CHAPTER II.LONG after the younger children had gone to bed, husband and wife sat talking over the new trial which had fallen upon them. George had gone up to the school to tell the master...
3. CHAPTER III.WITHIN a week from the time of George's engagement by Mr. Day, his father left Northcliffe for London. Having made up his mind to follow Dr. Bertram's advice, it was clear that...
4. CHAPTER IV."Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his...
5. CHAPTER V."I SHALL have a good hour at home before I need get ready for the evening school," thought George, as he went away from his work, "and I can do a good deal of painting in an hou...
6. CHAPTER VI.The gas was lighted, too, in the hospital where John Horbrook lay. It was a very large ward in which he was placed, and there were many beds in it—upwards of twenty. There was r...
7. CHAPTER VII.The death of his son had very much retarded his recovery, and had thrown him back some weeks. It was some time before he could find courage to write and tell his wife that the T...