Golden Gleanings BY David Heston
350 Pages A selected miscellany
Hard Cover
Copyright 1886
Front page and title page are loose. Front cover and binding edge are loose. WRiting on blank page
Table of Contents:
Sketches And Anecdotes. Page.
A Thrilling Incident 9
The Outside Passenger 13
The Hopeless Made Hopeful 14
"Do Good To Them That Hate You" 17
Uncle Benjamin's Advice 20
Bob, The Cabin Boy 22
Profitable Politeness 26
Interesting Story 27
Christian Contentment 30
The Child Witness 31
The Story Of Colbert; "Honesty Is The Best Policy" 33
A Strange Funeral Sermon 36
Indian Test Of Honesty 37
Transforming Power Of Grace 38
A Ray Of Sunshine 41
Work In Faith 42
Who Can Bear A Guilty Conscience 43
Anecdote Of John Collingsworth 46
Our Defender 47
"A Soft Answer Turneth Away Wrath" .48
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Captain Ball's Experience, As Related By Himself 49
Preservation From Danger 56
The Learned Professor And The Cobbler 57
"But The Greatest Of These Is Charity" 6o
The Converted Actress 63
Stick To Your Bush 65
The Orphan Boy 66
Where Did He Get That Law Í' 68
The Widow's Son And His Bible 71
A Word In Season 72
Ingratitude 74
Conversion At Sea 75
The Preaching Of George Fox - 79
A Railway Incident 83
What One Sin Will Do . . 80
Remarkable Conduct Of A Little Girl 83
Letter From Mother To Son, Upon Completion Of Her 90th Year, 87 Pacific Policy Of William Penn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
A Bible In A Hotel 90
The Young Prodigal; Or "That's Thee, Jim" 92
"Quench Not The Spirit" 94
The Foraging Party 97
Exercise Of Faith 98
Return Of The Prodigal I03
I Knew I Did Wrong 105
Incidents And Reflections I07
A Backslider's Sin Iii
They Shall Not Blush For Their Father 112
A Work Of Grace 113
John Woolman 116
Noble Conduct• 117
Anecdote Of C. G. Steinhofer 119
Married Without Shoes 121
Exhortation Of A Mexican Indian To His Son I22
Ex-President Jefferson And The Cooper's Shop . . . . . . . I23
Agnes' Lost Money 124
Incidents In The Life Of Oliver Heywood I26
The Story Of President Garfield's Mother 130
Anecdote Of Abraham Lincoln 132
The Indian's Reproof • • 134
Anecdote Of John Fletcher, Of Madeley 135
A Dance Postponed 137
Satan's Responsibility 138
The Russian Tailor . . . 139
Help Sally To Count Forty 141
Heaping Coals Of Fire 142
Begin At Matthew 144
A Tired Mother's Victory 145
The Town Clerk Of Ephesus 147
Particular Providences.
Providence Directing 149
A Particular Providence 151
A Remarkable Deliverance 154
A Merchant Saved From Bankruptcy 159
Instructive Incidents 160
A Providential Deliverance 162
A Collision Averted 163
Providence And Potatoes 165
Anecdotes Of Quincey Maynard 166
Succored From Distress 168
Providentially Directed Sermons 169
"Ask, And Ye Shall Receive" 171
Special Providence 173
Wonderful Deliverance 174
Larks Sent To The Starving 175
"Send Provisions To Caleb" 176
"The Lord Helps" • 177
Remarkable Instance Of Providential Deliverance 179
God's Providence In The Sea 180
"I Have Just Met With A Wonderful Manifestation Of Divine
Providence" 181
Providential Waking I83
The Value Of Premonitions I84
Prayer.
Remarkable Answer To Prayer 187
A Prayer-Answering God 189
A Duelist's Praying Wife 191
Answer To Prayer 193
The Locust Plague And Prayer 194
Answered Prayer 196
The Boy's Prayer And The Waterspout 198
Singular Answers To Prayer 199
Pray In Fair Weather 200
The Indian Girl, Hannah 202
The Starving Captain's Prayer 204
The Children's Cow Restored 205
The Wife's Prayer 206
A Mother's Prayer 207
A Sister's Prayer 208
The Captain's Prayer 2i0
Praying Mary 2i2
Dreams.
Dreams 215
Captain Yonnt's Dream 219
Warning By A Dream 220
Anecdotes Of Colored People.
The Happy Negro 223
Uncle Johnson 226
The Judge And The Poor African Woman 234
Uncle Tom Mayes 237
Happy Nancy's Secret, Or Confidence In God 239
My Colored Washerwoman 241
A Slave's Prayer 242
Old Aunt Sally 245
Old Susan 247
Thirty Years Ago 251
Uncle Harry 256
Anecdotes Of Indians.
Anecdotes Of Indians 263
Poor Sarah 266
Intemperance.
Something For Drinking Men To Read 273
Blessings Of Temperance 275
Who Is Responsible? 277
The Drunkard's Girls 278
The Pint Of Ale 279
How To Break The Chain 281
Money Well Expended 282
My Experience 284
Thirty Years A Drunkard 285
Effects Of Temperance 287
Story Of The Engineer 288
A Doctor's Story 291
Into Bondage And Out Of It 293
The Two Pledges 295
One Young Man's "No" 297
A Child's Influence 299
Can God Destroy The Appetite? 300
"Stand Out From The Danger" 303
Saved By His Children 304
"I Mean Business" 305
Infidelity.
The Death-Bed Of An Awakened Infidel 307
An Infidel Strangely Converted 309
A Devoted Pastor 311
The Astonished Infidel, Or The Power Of The Bible 313
An Unbeliever's Death Bed 315
Swearing.
The Profane Swearer 319
Warnings To The Wicked 320
Signal Lights 322
Incidents And Reflections 323
A True Incident 327
The Swearer Reproved 328
Lying.
Tine Truth At All Hazards 331
Lie Never 334
Stealing
A Thief Caught In His Own Snare 337
John Kane And The Robbers 339
The Clergyman And The Burglar 340
The Lady And The Robber 342
Tobacco.
Effects Of The Use Of Tobacco 345
An Original Anecdote For Students 346
A Bad Fire 347
Tobacco 348
Tobacco Cure 349
The following pages embrace a variety of short, interesting Anecdotes, Sketches, &c., which will be found, it is believed, to be adapted to fostering an appetite for solid and profitable reading. Much of the matter here presented has been gleaned from the columns of The Tract Repository,* and lays no claim to originality or to literary merit. It has not been the aim of the editor in making these selections to enforce distinctive or sectarian views, they being gathered originally from a variety of sources, and from authors differing in their religious profession, who have been allowed to express themselves in their own language and way. It is believed, however, that the real value of the moral or religious lessons of instruction inculcated, will be found to far outweigh any imperfections of style or objectionable modes of expression, which may be noticed to exist.
