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4 days ago · Speaking personally, I have been reading what others have written about God and Christ since I was a child. Nothing I know of outside the Bible compares with George MacDonald’s soothing, truthful words to yearning souls. George MacDonald is an honest witness to the Presence of God’s Christ-Spirit in the life of mankind.
3 days ago · Another was the fantasy author George MacDonald, who wrote The Princess and the Goblin. Books by the Inkling author Owen Barfield contributed to his world-view, particularly The Silver Trumpet (1925), History in English Words (1926) and Poetic Diction (1928).
21 hours ago · The Flashman Papers is a series of novels and short stories written by George MacDonald Fraser, the first of which was published in 1969. The books centre on the exploits of the fictional protagonist Harry Flashman. He is a cowardly British soldier, rake and cad who is placed in a series of real historical incidents between 1839 and 1894.
3 days ago · By George MacDonald 23 July 2024. Carpet king Lord Harris built Carpetright, then went into business against it. As Tapi takes control of Carpetright assets from the administrator, some may see Harris as a Brutus figure – but that would be wrong, says George MacDonald. Business founders sometimes return in an attempt to salvage the businesses ...
4 days ago · A plane, a chisel, in thy hand!- No, Lord! I take it back in awe, Such prayer for me is far too grand. I pray, O Master, let me lie, As on thy bench the favoured wood; Thy saw, thy plane, thy chisel ply, And work me into something good. No, no; ambition, holy - high, Urges for more than both to pray: Come in, O gracious Force, I cry-
4 days ago · A Song In The Night. A brown bird sang on a blossomy tree, Sang in the moonshine, merrily, Three little songs, one, two, and three, A song for his wife, for himself, and me. He sang for his wife, sang low, sang high, Filling the moonlight that filled the sky; “Thee, thee, I love thee, heart alive! Thee, thee, thee, and thy round eggs five!”
1 day ago · Ramsay MacDonald. James Ramsay MacDonald FRS ( né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman [1] and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931. From 1931 ...
