Books with title Ester Ried: Asleep and Awake

Ester endured life as a half-hearted Christian, unhappily going through the motions of her housework. “O, Ester was asleep! She went to church on the Sabbath, and to preparatory lecture on a week day; she read a few verses in her Bible, frequently, not every day; she knelt at her bedside every night, and said a few words of prayer—and this was all!” She traveled to New York and was excited to be in her cousin’s wedding. Abbie, a strong Christian, brought much reflection into Ester’s life. “Ester saw with wide, open eyes, and thoroughly awakened soul, that there was a something in this Christian religion that Abbie had and she had not.” This popular story by Pansy illustrates Ester’s journey to become a stronger, more committed Christian.

Ester Ried, Asleep and Awakeby PansyThe classic 1870 for children' etiquette and pray for Christian Belief.Chapter I: Ester's homeChapter II: What Sadie thoughtChapter III: Florence VaneChapter IV: The Sunday lessonChapter V: The poor little fishChapter VI: Something happensChapter VII: JourneyingChapter VIII: The journey's endChapter IX: Cousin AbbieChapter X: Ester's ministerChapter XI: The new boarderChapter XII: Three peopleChapter XIII: The strange christianChapter XIV: The little cardChapter XV: What is the differenceChapter XVI: A victoryChapter XVII: Stepping betweenChapter XVIII: Light out of darknessChapter XIX: SundriesChapter XX: At homeChapter XXI: TestedChapter XXII: "Little plum pies"Chapter XXIII: CrossesChapter XXIV: God's wayChapter XXV: Sadie surroundedChapter XXVI: Confusion--cross-bearing-consequenceChapter XXVII: The time to sleepChapter XXVIII: At last**This eBook has all graphics of a high quality of scanned document and eligible as good format.**All Pictures and Texts are original re-scanned from the original hardcover book.

Isabella Macdonald Alden (1841-1930) was an American author, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Pansy". Alden was born in Rochester, New York. In addition to much fiction for older readers, her works include the Pansy Books. She edited the young folks' journal Pansy from 1873 until 1896, and was at various times on the editorial staff of the Christian Endeavor World and other religious magazines, Japanese as well as American. She wrote The Prince of Peace, A Life of Christ, (revised, 1908); Unto the End (1902); Her Own Way (1912); A Long Way Home (1912); and A King's Daughter (1913). Her works were translated into many foreign languages. Alden died in Palo Alto, California, aged 88.

Excerpt from Asleep and AwakeAnd between the first and last scenes what a magnificent net-work of aspirations, struggles and intrigues - brute force contending with brute force, and blindly and resistlessly overriding spirit spiritual might still yearning and struggling in the dust, and in its turn triumphing over brute strength; everywhere and at all times men spending the strength and glory of their existence in one long, un ending conflict to attain the satisfaction of their desires, which they call happiness; the poor march ing, patiently and persistently through the joy less, monotonous years of perpetual toil, inspired by the hope of attaining a few hours of satis faction at the end; the rich achieving desire after desire, only to discover that in their attain ment they have not found happiness: If there are gods, this is what they behold transpiring through the aeons, this little planet for a stage, the universe for a background and a foreground.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.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...was, or that He had aught to do with her. « Certainly the wonderful and gracious truths embodied in these precious verses, truths which had to do with every hour of her life, had not this evening so much as made an entrance into her busy brain; and yet she actually thought herself in the way of getting rid of the troublesome thoughts that had haunted her the days just past. The verses were being read aloud, the thoughts about the troublesome hair and the trimmings on Miss Hastings' sack were suffered to remain thoughts, not to put into words--had they been perhaps even Ester would" have noticed the glaring incongruity. As it was she continued her two occupations, reading the verses, thinking the thoughts, until at last she came to a sudden pause, and silence reigned in the room for several minutes; then there flushed over Ester's face a sudden glow, as she realized that she sat, Bible in hand, one corner "of the solemnlyworded card marking the verse at which she had paused, and that verse was: "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." And she realized that her thoughts during the silence had been: "Suppose Miss Hastings should call and should inquire for her, and she should go with Aunt Helen to return the call, should she wear mother's black lace shawl with her blue silk dress, or simply the little ruffled cape which matched the dress! She read that last verse over again, with an uncomfortable consciousness that she was not getting on very well; but try as she would, Ester's thoughts seemed resolved not to stay with that first chapter of John--they roved all over New York, visited all the places that she had seen, and a great many that she WHAT IS T&E DJFFSKSJVCSf /76 wanted to see, and that seemed...

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