John Calvin was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational, Reformed and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have s...

One cold day in December, in the city of Aberdeen, a baby girl was carried by her mother into a church to be enrolled in the Kingdom of Jesus and given a name. As the minister went through the tender and beautiful ceremony the people in the pews looked at the tiny form in her robes of white, and thought of the long years that lay before her and wondered what she would become, because every girl and boy is like a shut casket full of mystery and promise and hope. No one knows what gifts may ...

This ebook compiles John Buchan's greatest writings, including novels and short stories such as "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "Greenmantle", "Mr. Standfast", "John Macnab", "The Island of Sheep" and "The Watcher by the Threshold". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected t...

First published in 1903, "The People of the Abyss" tells Jack London’s descent into London’s east end in the 1900s.Sent to cover Edward VII’s coronation, he went in search of the real story – the stinking slums. Doffing his Yankee togs for filthy rags purchased off a barrow in Petticoat Lane, the young, vigorous, handsome, American spent seven weeks amidst foul tenements, starving children, alcoholic adults, stunted human beings and bottomless despair. London rails against the indus...

What is Flashy doing?-in the drawing room of a great English mansion with the redhot-blooded mistress of a violently jealous blue-blood?-in between a pair of Chinese beauties who are willing to do anything and everything to close the gap between East and West?-in the hold of a warship under fire, with a Malay maiden as explosive as the shells bursting above?-in the forced service of an African queen who lets a lover stay alive only as long as his power to pleas...

The Island of Sheep (1936) is a novel by John Buchan. It is part of the series featuring Richard Hannay and Sandy Arbuthnot.The action occurs twelve years later on from the last novel, when Hannay, now in his fifties, is called by an old oath to protect the son of a man he once knew, who is also heir to the secret of a great treasure. He obtains help from Sandy Arbuthnot, now Lord Clanroyden, and Lombard. The action takes place in England, Scotland and on the Islan...

This book provides you with more than 70 articles written by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson. These articles were published in various newspapers and magazines, over the period 1890 to 1920.The collection covers most of the newsworthy events of that time, including The Boer War, and World War 1. Many of the articles are humorous, but most are quite serious; they delve into the politics of the time, and the issues that concerned the general population. This gives a gr...

The Complete Works of John BuchanJohn Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.This collection includes the following:The Half-HeartedThe Path of the KingThe African ColonyHuntingtowerJohn Burnet of BarnsSir Quixote of the MoorsDays to RememberThe Thirty-nine StepsGre...

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - estimated 5899 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Thirty-Nine Steps • Greenmantle • The World's Greatest Books • Mr. Standfast • Prester John • Poems of American Patriotism • HuntingtowerJohn Buchan • The Path of the King • My First Book:Various • The Half-Hearted • The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies • Salute to Adventurers • Sir Quixote of the Moors • John Burnet of Barns: ...

This collection presents some of the most amazing works by Stoker. Reflecting his true genius and imagination these works range from nautical life to an exquisitely beautiful imaginative land. From darkened and shadowed atmosphere the light of goodness and virtue shines through!

"Prester John is a splendid story, not merely compact with thrilling scenes, but distinguished by a fine literary flavour, due partly to the author's style and partly to his ability to describe men who are not mere automatons. Davie Crawfurd, Laputa, Wardlaw, an Aberdeen schoolmaster; Henriques, a dirty Portuguese scoundrel, and others are men of flesh and blood as living and real as the people one meets every day in the street, and a great deal more interesting."--Scotsman.

Employing his unique style of innocent and endearing humour, Bones has written to the newspapers The Surrey Star and The Middlesex Plain Dealer inviting the Foreign Secretary to pay a visit to the African territories which they administer. It is against the regulations and his boss Hamilton is furious. While world powers vie for colonial honours, Sanders and his assistants attempt to administer an uneasy peace in a climate of ju-ju and witch doctors, and all the while Bos...