Download or read book Father Ralph Classic Reprint written by Gerald O'Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Father Ralph It was his mother's idea that Ralph O'Brien should be a priest. She had brooded happily on the thought for months before his birth. She had prayed that her first-born should be a son, and never doubted that it would be. He was to grow up unspotted from the world, holy as a priest of God should be. Day after day at mass in Clarendon Street Church she dedicated him to God. One day, during the consecration of the mass, when the child in her womb quickened, as if in response to a question as to whether he would wish to serve God at the altar, she took it as a sign from heaven. When the child was born, she looked on him as the child of miracle. She had prayed for a son and a son had been given to her. She had promised that he should be a priest; it was because of the promise her son had been given. The nursery of her house in Harcourt Terrace was hung with religious prints: St. Francis Xavier preaching to the Japanese, St. Stanislaus Kotska, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, the Sacred Heart. Mrs. O'Brien kept on her monthly nurse in charge of Ralph, while she sought for a suitable permanent nurse. 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 Father Ralph Pfau and the Golden Books written by Glenn F. Chesnut and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Ralph Pfau was one of AAs four most-published and most-formative authors (along with Bill Wilson, Richmond Walker, and Ed Webster) during the new movements earliest thirty years, during which it grew from only 100 members to almost 300,000. In the first ten years Pfau spent working to spread AA, he said I have traveled nearly 750,000 miles .... I have spoken before nearly two hundred thousand members of AA at retreats, meetings and conventions, and personally discussed problems with more than ten thousand alcoholics. He produced fourteen extremely popular books, called the Golden Books, under the pen name Father John Doe, along with other books and recordings. When he joined Alcoholics Anonymous in 1943, he became the first Roman Catholic priest to get sober in the newly formed movement. An alcoholic and drug addict, he had spent the previous ten years being removed from parish after parish, as his drinking and addiction to downers got out of control over and over again. He taught the spirituality of imperfection, drawing from St. Thrse of Lisieuxs Little Way and St. Augustines teaching of God as Truth Itself the forgiving God who touches us in our fallenness, in acts of sudden psychological insight in which our whole perspective on life undergoes sweeping positive quantum changes. Over and over he calmed peoples fear of God by reminding them that perfection was a myth, and that no human being could do it all. He was one of the most creative and interesting American Catholic theologians of his era.
Download or read book Ralph Elmwood written by John Henry Vosburg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ralph Elmwood: A Poem Been wed, And in the little village church the sacred rites were said; Here, standing on her father's porch, we see the gothic spire That draws a flash of glory from the sunset's dying. 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 Little Britches written by Ralph Moody and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary. Little Britches was the literary debut of Ralph Moody, who wrote about the adventures of his family in eight glorious books, all available as Bison Books.
Download or read book Ralph Waldo Emerson written by C. A. Bartol and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Discourse in West Church He hated bluster and flourish, was never a noisy man, but bashful in meeting personages. I invited him to dine with me, and he promised to come. I said, I am the more glad, because you will meet Father Taylor. Then he hesitated, and said, Father Taylor is a cannon, better on the common than in a parlor. But he was persuaded and recompensed for, as Einerson left, I said, That is a sweet spirit. Yes, replied Taylor, should he go to hell, it would change the climate, and the emigration would be that way. He, Taylor, had said before, I have laid my ear close to his heart, and never heard any jar in the machinery: he is more like Jesus than anybody else I have known. He was an evangelist, if that means to welcome and greet with good news, open as the day. When I first saw him as his guest, I think in 1835, he pointed to his manuscripts and said, They are for all who will look. I complained once that he had been overcharged at a watering-place, and he said it was all right, the rocks and the sea had been thrown into the bill. James T. Fields told me that on republishing one of his pieces he paid him again, and Em erson said, If I were an honest man, I should not take this money; but'i was a thief' from before the foundation of the world. Whither is the patent telescope, he swept this lower firma ment with, directed now? Such my question as I saw him in that sleep which needs no doctor's Opiate to induce. Dr. Hedge, finding him many years ago in a chamber asleep, and perusing the lines, without massiveness, yet so strong, in his face, feared to wake him up, not knowing what he would do. He must be where beauty is, and proceed to move in its orbed lines, as still and as quick as a star. Is it not garnering with him that so diligently sowed? 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 Father Faber Classic Reprint written by W. Hall-Patch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Father Faber All that the author desires in this little Life of Father Faber is to supply a demand to which he, in his position, has repeatedly had his attention drawn, viz., a small cheap book telling something about Father Faber. Most grateful thanks are offered to Father Sebastian Bowden and to Father K. D. Best for their kindly advice, and the permission of the latter to use his poem on Faber's Grave. And also to Father Ralph Kerr for permission to reproduce the pictures for the illustrations. 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 Ralph S Mouse written by Beverly Cleary and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.
Download or read book Ralph and Bruno Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by M. Bramston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ralph and Bruno, Vol. 1 of 2 0 joy to him in this retreat Immantled in ambrosial dark, To drink the cooler air, and mark The landscape winking thro' the heat. 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 Ralph s Scrap Book written by Edmund Bicknell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ralph's Scrap Book: Illustrated by His Own Camera and Collection of Photographs, and Compiled by His Father Edmund Bicknell 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 Ralph Sexton Story written by Ralph Sexton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ralph Sexton Story: From the Mountains Came the Light; The Trials, Triumphs, and Good Times of a Mountain Preacher Although I don't remember a thing about it, I first saw the light of day on September 14, 1919, in a little house on Sassafras Gap. To pinpoint the location exactly, Sassafras Gap is on Elk Mountain just beyond Buzzard Rock. If you don't know where that is, it's about seven or eight miles north as the crow flies from Pack Square, the center of Asheville, North Carolina. I was a mountaineer by birth, and I wouldn't take anything for that heritage. It is price less to me. All of that mountain was planted in orchard during World War I, and my father, Charles Harrison Sexton, hired out to a Dr. Carroll to look after the orchard during the war. My dad missed the war. He was expecting to be drafted in the next call late in 1918, but the war ended on November 11 and he didn't have to go. My mother was Mary Elizabeth Shetley, and she, like my father, was a typical mountaineer. She was part Chero kee Indian, so I have some of the blood of that great In dian nation in my veins. I was sixth in a line of nine children born to my parents, six boys and three girls. The second daughter, Henrietta, was stillborn. The other eight of us are still alive at this writing, and we are, in descending order: Evelyn Lind berg, Paul, Perry, Lee, me, Raymond, Ethel Hyatt, and Frank. The eight of us have experienced almost six hun dred years of living, and we are thankful to God for that. What a blessing! - that God would give one family that much life. We were not reared in a strong Christian home, but we were like other mountain people: We had strong princi ples and good morals. We believed in Christ and truly loved God, but were not Christians in the way we are to day. Our home was strict, though not like a military camp. Mountaineers didn't do a lot of talking, but we did a lot of living - family living. We didn't have a family altar, and we didn't sit down and pray together, but our parents taught us respect for others and respect for other people's property. They taught us manners and grace. They wanted all those traits to be instilled in each one of us. 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 Ralph Ranscomb Banker Classic Reprint written by Theodore W. Nevin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ralph Ranscomb Banker Some there are who have censured the son to whom this strange document was left for making it public, but Henry Ranscomb was a man in whom was embodied, through his mother and by his early training, virtues which his father had not, even though he lacked the father's masterful strength. The son, after pondering over the matter for a long time, at last decided that even his father would have wished that this story of his life be given to the world, as a warning to over ambitious young men to stay off the paths he had trodden to such a bitter end. 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 Book of Ralph written by John McNally and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of us need a Ralph in our lives. Chicago, 1978. Hank Boyd, a solid B+ student, a good kid, wants eighth grade to be his special year. But when Ralph, an oddball troublemaker who ' s been held back twice, gets the idea that he and Hank are pals, Hank's year devolves into an odyssey as frightening as it is hilarious. John McNally, acclaimed author of Troublemakers, deftly portrays the astonishing, sometimes terrifying world of adolescence in 1970s America: The adult world becomes increasingly untrustworthy, the economy plummets, and families seem to be falling apart, yet the two boys manage to create their own small moments of transcendence. At once wary and full of wonder, Hank and Ralph will win your heart with their outrageous, poignant, and occasionally scary antics -- and they will teach you something about the ties that bind us together, hold us back, and redeem us.
Download or read book Sobriety and Beyond written by Father John Doe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Ralph Pfau, known originally as Father "John Doe" traces the spiritual roots of Alcoholics Anonymous and explains the fundamental and enduring truths contained in the Twelve Steps. This is a wonderful resource for discovering the spiritual contentment, mental peace and everyday joys to be found in the Twelve Steps.
Download or read book Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia Vol 31 Classic Reprint written by American Catholic Historic Philadelphia and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 31 Cornelia Augusta Peacock was born in Philadelphia on the fifteenth day of January, 1809. The residence of her father, Ralph Peacock, an import merchant grocer, is given in the city directory of that year, at number one, Filbert Street. This was near the Delaware water front, and at that time a select section of respectable homes, now, and for many years past, the home almost exclusively of wholesale warehouses. Cornelia was. The youngest of six: children, Dodsworth, Ralph, Mary, Adeline and George. The mother, however, whose maiden name was Mary Swope, had been married before to a Mr. Bowen of Bowen Hall in the Island of Jamaica. There was a daughter by this former marriage, Isabella, who later married a Mr. Mont gomery. After the death of the mother, in 1833, Cornelia made her home with this half-sister,2 but at the time of the marriage, 1831, it appears that she lived with another sister, Mrs. Louis Duval3 (adeline). 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 Man of the Family written by Ralph Moody and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Man of the Family continues true pioneering adventures as unforgettable as those in Little Britches and The Fields of Home, also available as Bison Books.
Download or read book The Sinfulness of Sin written by Ralph Venning and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Puritan classic contains the following chapters: Introduction I. What Sin Is II. The Sinfulness of Sin III. The Witnesses Against Sin IV. The Application and Usefulness of the Doctrine of Sin’s Sinfulness Conclusion
Download or read book Ralph Gemmell Or the Banks of the Irvine written by Robert Pollok and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ralph Gemmell, or the Banks of the Irvine: A Tale of the Scottish Covenanters But of all the masters Of this house, none ever proved himself so careless Of religion, or so blindly devoted to a prince, as the father of Ralph. In those troublous and cruel times, when the church of the land was driven to the wilderness; and when its scattered mem bers hanged their harps on the willows of Scotland's wildest streams, zealously did he. 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.
