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A Help for the Common Days
Opening Words
This is not a volume of essays, but a collection of chapters written out of the author's own experience, in the hope that they may do a little, at least, to make the path plainer for others. The book is all practical, without a line that is not intended to bear upon the actual life of the common days. It is not meant to show people an easy way of living—there is no easy way to live worthily—but it seeks to show why it is worth while to live earnestly, at whatever cost.
The book is designed to be a companion to 'Week-Day Religion', which has met with such wide and continued favour, and which appears to have been used by the Master to help many people over the hard places and up to a fuller, richer life. The hundreds of letters which have come from readers of that little book and of 'Silent Times' have encouraged the author to prepare the present volume along the same line, and it is now sent forth in the hope that it likewise may have a ministry of encouragement, stimulus,comfort or strength—in some lives of toil, care, struggle or sorrow.
1. The Sweet Fragrance of Prayer
2. The Blessing of Quietness
3. "You Have Done it Unto Me"
4. Transformed by Beholding
5. Being Christians on Weekdays
6. Compensation in Life
7. The Cost of Being a Blessing
8. Life as a Ladder
9. Seeds of Light
10. Looking at the Right Side
11. For Better or Worse
12. "Do Your Next Thing"
13. People as Means of Grace
14. Shall We Worry?
15. A Word About Temper
16. Forward, and Not Back
17. The Duty of Forgetting Sorrow
18. People Who Fail
19. Living Victoriously
20. Shut In
21. Helpful People
22. Tired Feet
23. Hands: A Study
24. Learning Our Lessons
25. Broken Lives
26. Coming to the End
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