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  • The Christmas Child

    Hesba Stretton

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 16, 2015)
    Miss Priscilla Parry, a passionately independent woman, lived on a farmstead and helped to raise her two nieces. Inspired by the Biblical Christmas story, the children Rhoda and Joan had a habit of visiting their barn manger every Christmas to look for a child. One day Rhoda mysteriously disappeared and a search began. The Christmas Child’s message is to learn to forgive especially when it is very difficult to forgive. Luke 11:4—"And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us.” Hesba Stretton was the nom de plume of Sarah Smith, an English author of children's literature. The name Hesba came from the initials of her siblings. She was the daughter of a bookseller from Wellington, Shropshire, but around 1867 she moved south and lived at Snaresbrook and Loughton near Epping Forest and at Ham, near Richmond, Surrey. Her moral tales and semi-religious stories, chiefly for the young, were printed in huge quantities, and were especially widespread as school and Sunday school prizes. She won wide acceptance in English homes from the publication of Jessica's First Prayer in 1867. She was a regular contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round during Charles Dickens' editorship, and wrote upwards of 40 novels.
  • Alone in London

    Hesba Stretton

    Paperback (Curiosmith, Jan. 17, 2013)
    James Oliver lived alone in London and worked in his newspaper shop. He had an unusually open relationship with Jesus, whom he talked to as a personal friend. One day he found Dolly, a little girl, alone in the shop. Tony, a street boy, had fended for himself and needed a place to sleep at night. These three isolated people came together and formed a family. Tension came between Oliver who wanted to care for the downtrodden, and Aunt Charlotte who wanted to maintain a life of respectability. An important verse is Matthew 25:40: “Inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these, ye did it unto me.”
  • The Doctor's Dilemma

    Hesba Stretton

    Paperback (Echo Library, Dec. 1, 2006)
    A women escapes imprisonment in a house in London
  • Jessica's First Prayer

    Hesba Stretton

    Hardcover (Forgotten Books, April 27, 2018)
    Excerpt from Jessica's First Prayer Her ideal Church is all people that on earth do dwell, ' with the four Gospels for their theology, Jesus of Naz areth for their one Master, and the pleasures of brother hood as their holy communion. Jessica's first prayer is her idea of prayer, the personal childlike speaking of our joys and wants to a living, loving Father. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • No Place Like Home

    Hesba Stretton

    Paperback (Dodo Press, April 18, 2008)
    Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was the nom de plume of Sarah Smith, an English author of children's literature. The name Hesba came from the initials of her siblings. She was the daughter of a bookseller from Wellington, Shropshire, but around 1867 she moved south and lived at Snaresbrook and Loughton near Epping Forest and at Ham, near Richmond, Surrey. Her moral tales and semi-religious stories, chiefly for the young, were printed in huge quantities, and were especially widespread as school and Sunday school prizes. She won wide acceptance in English homes from the publication of Jessica's First Prayer in 1867. She was a regular contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round during Charles Dickens' editorship, and wrote upwards of 40 novels. Her other works include Children of Cloverley (1865), Little Meg's Children (1868), In Prison and Out (1880), No Place Like Home (1881), The Soul of Honour (1898) and Hester Morley's Promise (1899).
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  • Jessica's First Prayer

    Hesba Stretton

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, May 10, 2017)
    Excerpt from Jessica's First PrayerHer ideal Church is all people that on earth do dwell,' with the four Gospels for their theology, Jesus of Naz areth for their one Master, and the pleasures of brother hood as their holy communion. Jessica's first prayer is her idea of prayer, the personal childlike speaking of our joys and wants to a living, loving Father.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • Jessica's First Prayer

    Hesba Stretton

    Paperback (Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Sept. 10, 2010)
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
  • Child's Life of Christ or The Wonderful Life

    Hesba Stretton

    Paperback (Black Duck Inc., June 26, 2009)
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  • Children of Cloverley

    Hesba Stretton

    Paperback (Dodo Press, April 18, 2008)
    Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was the nom de plume of Sarah Smith, an English author of children's literature. The name Hesba came from the initials of her siblings. She was the daughter of a bookseller from Wellington, Shropshire, but around 1867 she moved south and lived at Snaresbrook and Loughton near Epping Forest and at Ham, near Richmond, Surrey. Her moral tales and semi-religious stories, chiefly for the young, were printed in huge quantities, and were especially widespread as school and Sunday school prizes. She won wide acceptance in English homes from the publication of Jessica's First Prayer in 1867. She was a regular contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round during Charles Dickens' editorship, and wrote upwards of 40 novels. Her other works include Children of Cloverley (1865), Little Meg's Children (1868), In Prison and Out (1880), No Place Like Home (1881), The Soul of Honour (1898) and Hester Morley's Promise (1899).
  • Little Meg's Children

    Hesba Stretton

    Paperback (Inheritance Pubn, Aug. 1, 2000)
    When her mother dies leaving Little Meg to care for her two young brothers in nineteenth-century London, they spend their days asking for God's blessings and trying to find enough food to keep them alive until father returns from sea.
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  • The Christmas Child

    Stretton Hesba

    Paperback (HardPress Publishing, June 23, 2016)
    Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
  • Jessica's First Prayer

    Stretton Hesba Stretton, Hesba Stretton

    Paperback (Book Jungle, Sept. 30, 2006)
    In a screened and secluded corner of one of the many railway-bridges which span the streets of London there could be seen a few years ago, from five o'clock every morning until half past eight, a tidily set-out coffee-stall, consisting of a trestle and board, upon which stood two large tin cans, with a small fire of charcoal burning under each so as to keep the coffee boiling during the early hours of the morning when the work-people were thronging into the city on their way to their daily toil...