The Deaf Shoemaker: To Which Are Added Other Stories for the Young

ENCOURAGED by your kind reception of my former little volume, I have gathered together my scattered sketches with the earnest wish and heart-felt prayer that they may be instrum...

On a beautiful Sabbath morning, instead of going to church, he wandered off, and finding nothing to engage his thoughts, determined to take a bath. He had scarcely been in the w...

ON an evening in July, 18-, as several youths, from twelve to eighteen years of age, were standing at the corner of a street in the little village of B——, Rufus Taylor, one of t...

A MOTHER with three children was once returning home, at a late hour of the night, through one of those dark and lonely passes which abound in the Alps mountains.

Young lady, will _you_ not come to that Saviour? Will _you_, whose sex was the last at the cross, the first at the sepulchre, stay away from that Saviour? The daughters of Jerus...

Let us determine that this year shall be a year of entire consecration to God’s service; that our places at the Sabbath-school, in the house of God, at the Wednesday evening lec...

Time does not suffice to notice in detail his anointing by the venerable Samuel, nor the swelling tide of human beings which rolled along the streets of Mizpah, on the day of hi...

Reader, it was a precious season to my own soul. God grant that the influences of that scene may never depart from me. My heart was cast down in humility, in penitence, as I rem...

THE Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, situated at this place, is a building of very attractive and beautiful appearance. Occupying an eminence to the right of the Virgi...