Gundersen's unique treatment of this rarely-addressed subject can make the difference between parents who participate in their children's deception and presumption, or parents who truly guide him to eternal life. If a small child tells us he thinks he's saved, do we take his words at face value? How do we test his profession, especially without seeming to doubt the child and discourage him? Many have found this book the most useful guide ever written on the topic. This updated edition cont...

Two stories in one: First, read of Kanousky, whose circumstances of life are tragically altered, but discovering the truth about Jesus so transforms his life, he can later look back with gladness on the changes he was forced to endure. The second story is of David Brainerd, briefly introducing young readers to the labors of one of America's most persevering missionaries, unstoppable in his zeal to reach the American Indian. The grace of the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ, and how seeks and fi...

One of our all-time most beloved titles, the story of Little Daisy’s persistence in the principles of her godly upbringing, even in her trials, has touched many readers. Though life’s trials have taken from her the parents who taught her God’s Word, and placed her in poverty, she continues to walk according to God’s commandments. While selling flowers on a street corner of the city, Daisy’s tender, child-like words of reproof bring even crusty old General Forster to see the sin of taking G...

Charles certainly had more than enough troubles in life for a boy his age. After all, how many of us would adjust easily to being orphaned at a young age? So it was that his rebellious ways began, as Charles resisted the control of any rules in his life. But Charles was favored with the privilege of being adopted by a kind, godly woman, though his adoptive father did not care at all about knowing God. Time and again, Charles falls into the same rebellious habits, and time and again, he reg...

"The Bible in the Wall" is the true story of a man who repeatedly rejects the gift of a Bible, which God, in turn, repeatedly brings back across his path. The story is set in the beautiful Swiss Alps and northern Italy, in the 1800s. Surviving intact despite a destructive fire, this Bible, disdainfully cast off three times, becomes the tool used by God to transform the man's life. Children will learn the wonder of the gift of God's Word from this story. This volume also contains "The Harve...

The American Tract Society printed numerous stories in the 1800s, the goal of which was the promotion of Christian character in young people. These two short stories in one, "Roses and Thorns" and the shorter "Prison Roses," were regarded as one of the most appealing of these volumes. In the setting of Aunt Eleanor sharing stories from her rocking chair with her niece and nephew, the priority of integrity and honesty in all that we do shines forth about careless words, lost children, thund...

Beginning with the story of Robert, the workshop apprentice, "Godliness is Great Gain" contains six moving stories of people who walked in integrity before the Lord and enjoyed much blessing for those choices later in life. Robert's loyalty and diligence in a dismal job results in great recognition and advancement later in life; Arthur's kindness to a poor woman in the rain, who everyone else finds easy to ignore, comes back to bring blessing to him; Mrs. Warner has a change of heart about...

A collection of short stories to show the sad results that come our way when we do not resist temptation: In the first story, "Young Martin and the Silver Sixpence", Bernard Martin's carelessness with his employer's money gets him in trouble, and then he is tempted to conceal something in his possession which is not his. The second story, the famous and much-published "Farmer Goodwin's Rule" (never do during the day that which will worry you at night), Randy is ashamed of being the one who...

What is more vital to early character training in children than forming the habit of telling the truth? In two of the most meaningful stories we've ever published, the blessings that follow those who live in paths of truth are made abundantly clear to the reader. The first story, "Truth Ensures the Future for Charles and Harry", demonstrates that telling the truth about your actions, even when your honesty brings costly consequences, still reaps the greatest benefit. The second story, "Lit...

Do you believe what the Lord Jesus said is true even of your children: "out of what fills the heart, the mouth speaks"? In the same way in which weeds can grow and take over an otherwise fruitful field, so sin can grow in the hearts of children, alongside other good traits, and yet be ignored or unnoticed by both them and their parents. One of our most life-changing titles of all, "The Weed With an Ill Name" shows children the danger of self-righteousness. How easily children raised in a C...

"The Little Medicine Carrier" is the story of a young boy, George Wayland, who carries and delivers the medicines for a country doctor to the ill people of neighboring villages. During his travels, George finds many opportunities to do good, and experiences challenging situations which teach him the importance of resisting temptation and being honest in all his work. This little volume is one of eleven stories in the Children's Character Building Collection, our popular reprints of 19th-ce...

“One of the greatest debilitating factors in current Christianity is the disappearance of the Prayer Meeting. This book will hopefully encourage pastors, individual Christians, and churches to rethink the issue and give themselves to a recovery of the great prayer engine which has energized the church since the First Century.” — Larry W. Dean, Pastor, Bridgetown Baptist Church, Nesbit, Mississippi “The prayer meeting is the most necessary but neglected facet of Divine worship. Dennis Gunde...