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They discovered the love of God at Chautauqua. If only their wayward children might do the same! For four lifelong friends, memories of a certain summer at Chautauqua remain fresh in their minds, though they have long since married and raised their families. They have often dreamed of returning, but responsibilities of life have prevented them. Now, at last, their dream is coming true, and the four invite their families to join them.For these mothers, Chautauqua represents a legacy of faith. For two of their children, however, it represents far less. Burnham Roberts, handsome and distinguished, lacks his parents' godly character; and wild, independent Eureka Harrison believes in nothing. For them, a summer at the famed resort is no more than an opportunity for fun and games. But what they find at Chautauqua may not be what they expect-or it may just be more than they could hope for!Heartwarming stories of faith and love by Grace Livingston Hill's aunt-Isabella Alden. Each book is similar in style and tone to Hill's and is set in the late 1800s and early 1900s.… (meer)
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"Four Mothers at Chautauqua" is especially designed for the thousands who met there during the summer of 1912, and for the thousands who wanted to go, but could not, and have that hope before them. For widely differing reasons that special summer will ever be memorable to those who spent it at Chautauqua Lake.
To the members of the dear class of ’87, whose twenty-fifth anniversary was celebrated that summer, - who certainly did what they could to make all Chautauquans remember “The Pansy Class” and who have strong hope of celebrating their fiftieth anniversary, a few of them in the “city by the lake,” many of them in the “City which hath foundations” this volume is especially dedicated by their friend and class-mate,
Pansy. April, 1913
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Erskine Burnham guided his auto skillfully to the side entrance, gave his chauffeur directions for the evening, and came presently into the living-room with the air of a man who had reached home again and was glad.
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It remained for Burnham, the youngest born, to fill the lives of his father and mother with anxious care. Through his aggressive babyhood and imperious childhood his parents, wise in their experience with three others, had tried in vain to apply the principles that had helped to tide the others through shoals and hidden rocks to the safe waters of responsible manhood and womanhood. Burnham simply would not be guided, would not follow, and he would lead. Always and everywhere he managed to secure his own way.
Self-love is one thing and selfishness is quite another. Self-love of the true type requires self-knowledge. What are we living for? Is it for bodily ease, and comfort and self-enjoyment, and recognition, and tributes of praise? Really, what are you living for? The development of a wholesome wide-reaching civilization, or merely success for your own narrow little self? You need to be saved. Selfishness accepted and never resisted is hell.
“I gave up everything for others.” “That is true, you made one great sacrifice for your mother; but haven’t you been making her unhappy in a hundred petty ways ever since? In thousands of trifles that make up your life have you not in a sense taken revenge for the very great sacrifice you made?”
“What do I believe, anyhow. A host of things; among them that there is a moral law that you have broken; and that there is such a being as God who has said that there was only one way for a transgressor of the law to escape, by accepting the substitution offered.”
… a single flash of memory at this moment sent him back to the ringing voice that was saying: “The doctrine of the forgiveness of sin is not even distantly imitated by any other religion.” It had sounded like a challenge to the idle young man, who had traveled in many lands and amused himself over the peculiarities of many religions, and he waited for the speaker to prove his point. He did it, and did yet more. As distinctly as though the words were being spoken now, came back their echo in the silence of the woods.
“Can a man really forgive himself? Oh, if we are morally flabby, we can forgive our selves, and continue to sin again, and yet again.” He had been sinning against his father and mother and regretting it, and forgetting it, and repeating it, all his life. He was “morally flabby.” …
“Can an honorable God forgive sin?” The answer led by logical sequence to the one way, the expiation, the atonement. “The moral man,” said the speaker, “will have nothing to do with cheap absolution.”
“The Christian life is not a single act, it is an attitude. The kernel of it is just this: ‘I am Christ’s. I tie myself up to Christ by every string that I know; and if there is any other string, I want to find it.’ That is the continuous attitude of one who has looked Jesus in the face and said: ‘Thou art Christ, and I am Christ’s.’”
She had escaped the consequences of her own decisions. Blessed are those who having made solemn decisions without other guidance than their own, escape from their consequences in time.
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As the sun dropped away, and the afterglow spread and deepened bathing all the hushed and worshiping earth in unearthly glory, they two clasped hands and, moved by the same impulse, repeated the declaration that had been used to anchor one of them to the Rock. “He is Christ, and we are Christ’s.”
They discovered the love of God at Chautauqua. If only their wayward children might do the same! For four lifelong friends, memories of a certain summer at Chautauqua remain fresh in their minds, though they have long since married and raised their families. They have often dreamed of returning, but responsibilities of life have prevented them. Now, at last, their dream is coming true, and the four invite their families to join them.For these mothers, Chautauqua represents a legacy of faith. For two of their children, however, it represents far less. Burnham Roberts, handsome and distinguished, lacks his parents' godly character; and wild, independent Eureka Harrison believes in nothing. For them, a summer at the famed resort is no more than an opportunity for fun and games. But what they find at Chautauqua may not be what they expect-or it may just be more than they could hope for!Heartwarming stories of faith and love by Grace Livingston Hill's aunt-Isabella Alden. Each book is similar in style and tone to Hill's and is set in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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