THE STORM On a large, clumsy, and ill-equipped ferry-boat, crossing the Firth of Forth from Newhaven to Bumtisland, were nearly two hundred human beings, proceeding to the great annual fair held at the last-named place. Most of those on board comprised what may be termed the odds and ends of the floating portion of society, …
Author: J. R. Phillips
SPIRITUAL BEAUTY A minister had been delivering a lecture in a village in Hampshire at a distance from his usual field of labour. His homeward walk led him past a little cluster of cottages hidden amongst some green banks and shady slopes. One of the cottages was a hut, desolate in the extreme, and shewing …