Barton Baynes and the jumper in a winter peril
The orphan Barton Baynes travels with his uncle Peabody and Aunt Deel on Rattleroad in 1826. A brutal blizzard tests his resolve as he builds a wooden jumper to haul grain home after a broken wheel and a dying horse. The family endures, debts soften, and Barton earns $62.50 in effect.
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Barton Baynes
Peabody Baynes
Deel
Rattleroad
Lickitysplit
Sally Dunkelberg
Barton
Kate
Amos Grimshaw
Baynes
Amos
Silas Wright, Jr
Mr. Grimshaw
Uncle Peabody
Shep
Aunt Deel
Amy Stars
Bart
Ol’ Kate
Collie
Purvis
Greenland
Rodney Barnes
The Night of the Roadside Robbery and Its Aftermath
In my sixteenth year I ride with Purvis to fetch the mail and confront a highwayman. A gunshot, a stranger dead on the road, and the toll of fear ripple through Grimshaw’s debt and our hunted life. I flee, seek help, and face the village's alarm and rumors as my uncle contemplates our future.
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Canton
Purvis
Sally
Seaver
Stranger
Amos Grimshaw
Cain
Andrew Crampton
Andrew
Lickitysplit
Uncle Peabody
Grimshaw
Mr. Grimshaw
Obedience as a Test of Discipleship in Abraham and Jesus
The lesson links Genesis obedience of Abraham to John and Matthew teachings, stressing love as motive for true obedience. It warns against false prophets and empty profession, and champions hearing Christ and doing his sayings as building on rock for discipleship. Barton’s new Canton academy vignette foreshadows further installments.
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John
God
Abraham
Christ
Jesus Christ
Peace Treaties Woven By Hand And Seals Of Silk
A fragment notes how peace treaties are prepared by hand with seals and green silk ribbon, highlighting traditional ceremony and binding practices in diplomatic culture.
The Need of God in an Age of Upheaval
A call for renewed faith and practical Christian living. The speaker urges more gospel men in churches and society, asking for multitudes of holy leaders to guide a troubled era toward God and Jesus Christ.
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God
Jesus Christ
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North Country
Silas Wright
Irving Bacheller
Sausisen, Pig and Darrel
Irving Bachaller
Michael Hackett
P. B. Fitzwater
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
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