Books with author Hesba Stretton

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Christmas Child (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Excerpt: "And now Christmas was coming. Joan had never kept Christmas, and knew nothing about it. But at Aunt Priscilla's farm it was a great day, as it always had been since she could remember. Every relative who could come to the farm was invited weeks beforehand; and nothing else was talked of but Christmas Day. The Sunday evening before it came old Nathan's sermon was all about the shepherds in the field, and how they found the little babe lying in the manger; and he told the story so well that Joan did not go to sleep at all, but sat listening to him with her dark eyes wide open."Hesba Stretton was the pen name of Sarah Smith (1832-1911), an English writer of children's books. Her moral tales and semi-religious stories, chiefly for the young, were printed in huge numbers. She became a regular contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round under Charles Dickens's editorship.

About the author:Hesba Stretton was the pen name of Sarah Smith (1832 – 1911), an English writer of children's books. Smith was one of the most popular Evangelical writers of the 19th century, who used her "Christian principles as a protest against specific social evils in her children's books."[3] Her moral tales and semi-religious stories, chiefly for the young, were printed in huge numbers, especially as school and Sunday school prizes. She became a regular contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round under Charles Dickens's editorship, after her sister had successfully submitted a story of hers without her knowledge. Altogether she wrote more than 40 novels.This book published in 1876 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.

Captain Norcott talked Peter Blake into sailing on his ship, but Peter was concerned about the soundness of the vessel. After the launch it was determined not to be the real Dolphin ship and sailor’s lives were dependent upon a business owner whose only concern was to make money. This greediness resulted in many ships and crews being lost for the collection of their insurance, but how can restitution be made? What becomes of the women left behind? An important Bible verse is Isaiah 40:12—“Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?”

Jessica's First Prayer is a heartwarming and socially conscious book about an impoverished child's struggle to find God and improve her fortunes. This edition includes the follow-on story; Jessica's Mother. Jessica is a bright and curious young soul living amidst grinding poverty in the industrialized London of the mid-19th century. Denied even the most basic comforts of life, she receives a regular pittance from a charity's coffee stall but has great trouble surviving in the abject squalor of the great metropolis. A chance meeting with two children of a minister leads Jessica to attend a church. The minister proves to be kindly, and asks that Jessica return and hear the words of God - so it is that Jessica begins to attend church regularly. Despite the trials of her existence, she manages to strengthen herself through belief in the divine, and begins to help others such as Daniel, the man who runs the coffee stall. When published in 1867, Jessica's First Prayer caused a sensation among the educated classes of English society for its unflinching depiction of poverty. The London of the time was the most bustling and wealthy city in the world, yet the limited response of society in the face of ballooning population and rapid social upheaval meant that many Londoners lived in abysmal circumstances. The simple but striking reminder of Christianity's core values of aiding the poor and the sick resonated with readers at the time.