Synopsis
A reprint edition of William E. Barton's classic parables, with Scripture verses added. William Eleazar Barton (1861-1930) was a Congregational minister and a prolific author. Among his writings are hundreds of short works known as the Parables of Safed the Sage, in which he characterizes himself as the philosopher Safed, and his wife Esther as Keturah. These parables originally appeared as a magazine column, and were later compiled into several books due to popular demand. Inspired by Barton’s own life experiences, they were intended “to teach their homely lessons of kindness, faith and courage in terms that are easily intelligible.” Anecdotes from the everyday are treated with thought-provoking candor, along with the right touch of humor to make them truly memorable.“If they are fitted to add to the enjoyment of life, that in itself is worth while. If they teach some wholesome lessons, and discover in common things suggestions of things spiritual, the author is doubly glad.”– W. E. BartonParables in Volume 1: The Mississippi Mate, The Hollyhock, The Three Hollyhocks, Concerning Vacations, The Seven Targets, The Four Hollyhocks, The Hot Box, The Transplanted Hollyhocks, The Steamboat, The Hollyhock in the Stone Pile, The Baldheaded Barber, The Woodpecker, The Dummy Organ Pipe, What the Woodpecker Did Next, The Twelve Hollyhocks, The White Elephant, The Flower Catalogue, The Uses of the White Elephant, The Plant I Did Not Buy, How I Obtained the Philosopher’s Stone, The Use of the Philosopher’s Stone, The Hollyhock and the Dandelion, The Chickens and the Mush, The Pins, The Time Table, The Unexpected Hollyhocks, The Widower Who Would Marry Again, Of Truth in Unexpected Places, Nature-Faking Hollyhocks, The Weeds In My Garden, Life In Spidertown, The Hollyhock Seeds, The Other Good Turn, The Bath Tub At the Inn, The Large Pearl Ring, The Unopened Window, The Flower In the Obstruction, The Ice That Melted, Two Shadows, Concerning Lemons, When It Is Hot In California, The Ship That Sunk, The Four Sheep, How Things Are Made Into Something Else, The Boston Statuary, The Muskmelon Rinds, The Parachute, The Faith Of the Bank of Mountmellick, The Trolley Car and Its Master, The Rubber Dam, The Ride In the Country, The Horse and the Tricycle, The Mortal Sins, The Words and Music, The Brakeman and the Farmer, The Potatoes, The Park By the Railway, The Channel Luncheon, The Triangle In Fiction, The Hare Pie, The Appendix and the Wart, The Trees and the Tablets, The Married Flirts, The Man Who Suspected His Neighbor, The Third Stick, The Unreckoned Gift, The Christmas Stocking
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