This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...tender might The balanced birds in all their flight, Thou of the tempered winds, be near, That, having thee, they know no fear. "Control their minds with instinct fit What time, adventuring, they quit The firm security of land: Grant steadfast eyes and skillful hand. "Aloft in solitudes of space Uphold them ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...tender might The balanced birds in all their flight, Thou of the tempered winds, be near, That, having thee, they know no fear. "Control their minds with instinct fit What time, adventuring, they quit The firm security of land: Grant steadfast eyes and skillful hand. "Aloft in solitudes of space Uphold them with thy saving grace. 0 God, protect the men who fly Through lonely ways beneath the sky." I had been up with one of the boys that afternoon, "Through lonely ways beneath the skies," and the whole theme of my talk to them had been saturated with my new experience in the air under the guiding hand of a skilled pilot in whom I had complete confidence. And so when I came to the end of that vesper hour with them and evening was falling, I said: "Now, boys, we'll all stand and have a little prayer together. I have just read you the prayer that the folks back home are praying and singing for you as you fly; now I want you to pray for them." During the next five minutes at least twenty boys offered brief--some of them very awkward but sincere--prayers for the folks back home. I wish I could reproduce some of them, but that wouldn't be fair. But it was a wonderfully sweet hour, and the Christ was very near to us. When I got home and was telling this story to a great crowd of people in a certain Eastern city in a big open-air meeting, an old man came up to me with a sweet little six-year-old girl. I took her into my arms and gave her a kiss on each cheek; one on her nose and one on her eyes. I'm always afraid to venture at kissing other folks' babies on their lips these days of bugs, and germs, and influenza, but I'll venture that their mothers won't care if you confine it to cheeks and nose and eyes. The grandfather...
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Add this copy of Star Dust From the Dugouts. a Reconstruction Book to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fleetville, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by Abingdon Press.
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First edition (NAP) Hardcover, very good, no DJ. Faint approx 1 inch drop mark front board, rubbed at corners and head and foot of spine, darkened along top edge. Internally, prev owner's 1919 inscptn, paper lightly age yellowed, o/w tight, clean and crisp. The influence of Christianity on American Doughboys fighting in the teenches during World War I. Military; history; religion; trench warfare.
