Author: Elsa Barker

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Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9781331146780

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Excerpt from The Son of Mary Bethel He was a strange child, given to long reveries almost from the cradle. As Mary Bethel told her husband one day when Jesse was three years old: "You would think, to see him gazing off into the sky with that rapt look in his eyes, that he was trying to remember something that happened ages before he was born." The young mother was herself a dreamer, and sometimes wrote verses in secret. Jesse was her first child, and she had searched the Scriptures for a name which should be an inspiration and a source of strength to him in after-life. Mary was a religious woman who deeply realized her religion, having a larger heart and a larger brain than any of her neighbours. From an old Biblical dictionary she learned the meaning of the name Jesse, "the Lord is." So, as the existence of her Lord.was very real to her, she called the child's name Jesse. Though two other sons came later to fill her heart and to lessen her scant leisure, they seemed to be of a different spirit from the first-born. Never would she have admitted that she loved them less than him; but on the night when the swamp woods were on fire behind the house, it was the little Jesse she held close in hr arms through the long hours of watching, while the two younger boys slept heavily side by side on the broad lounge at the other end of the kitchen. The husband of Mary Bethel was a kind and quiet man of middle-age, some twenty years her senior. He was by trade a carpenter, and occasional work of building and repairing added enough to the income of their few acres to give them peace and plenty. Two decades after the Civil War, the standard of living was simple among the farming people of Western Vermont. They were artless and full of elemental grace. 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.

Download or read book The Son of Mary Bethel (Classic Reprint) written by Elsa Barker and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Son of Mary Bethel He was a strange child, given to long reveries almost from the cradle. As Mary Bethel told her husband one day when Jesse was three years old: "You would think, to see him gazing off into the sky with that rapt look in his eyes, that he was trying to remember something that happened ages before he was born." The young mother was herself a dreamer, and sometimes wrote verses in secret. Jesse was her first child, and she had searched the Scriptures for a name which should be an inspiration and a source of strength to him in after-life. Mary was a religious woman who deeply realized her religion, having a larger heart and a larger brain than any of her neighbours. From an old Biblical dictionary she learned the meaning of the name Jesse, "the Lord is." So, as the existence of her Lord.was very real to her, she called the child's name Jesse. Though two other sons came later to fill her heart and to lessen her scant leisure, they seemed to be of a different spirit from the first-born. Never would she have admitted that she loved them less than him; but on the night when the swamp woods were on fire behind the house, it was the little Jesse she held close in hr arms through the long hours of watching, while the two younger boys slept heavily side by side on the broad lounge at the other end of the kitchen. The husband of Mary Bethel was a kind and quiet man of middle-age, some twenty years her senior. He was by trade a carpenter, and occasional work of building and repairing added enough to the income of their few acres to give them peace and plenty. Two decades after the Civil War, the standard of living was simple among the farming people of Western Vermont. They were artless and full of elemental grace. 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.