(Excerpt from Happy School Days
There are many thousands ...)
Excerpt from Happy School Days
There are many thousands of you, dear girls, who are the pride and joy of the homes you come from. I like to catch the inspira tion of your bright looks, to hear your sweet voices, and to watch the lightness of your feet as you flit along over the country roads or village pavements, or the thronged ave nues of our great towns.
You are schoolgirls, and you are told every day by grown people that you are liv ing your happiest days. There are times when you would very gladly change places with girls who do not go to school, if only you could. For school life has its shadow as well as its sunshine.
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Twilight Tales: Twenty-Four Stories of Love and Romance From Real Life (Classic Reprint)
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I know not what the future hath f marvel or 5 rise, Assured alone that or death His mercy underlies.
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Bmaome t Domantjoob Foreword OL ord and Master of us all, Whate er our name or sign, We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call, We test our lives by Thine. HIS little book has been written for women, witli a wisli and hope that it may prove suggestive and helpful to the girl in her teens, who faces so many problems, and stands before an unknown future, to the older woman bearing the responsibilities of middle life, and to her whose outlook is toward the setting sun. God is so good to us all in these days of large movement and increasing privilege, that more than ever before we owe to Him a debt of grateful love. Our whole-hearted devotion is not too much to offer Him. It is our highest honor that we may work for God in this world of His, and that every day may be a stepping stone toward Heaven.
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Rose-marie laid down th...)
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Rose-marie laid down the bit of roll that she had been buttering and turned reproachful eyes upon the Young Doctor.
Oh, but they're not, she cried; you don't understand, or you wouldn't talk that way. You don't understand!
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(The idea of a Harper's Bazaar editor writing a book on th...)
The idea of a Harper's Bazaar editor writing a book on things Christian today may seem inconceivable but it wasn't during the turn of the 20th century - 1903 to be exact. Proof of this is Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster, author of When Angels Come to Men who was one of the editors of the said magazine.
Considering that this American poet was raised in a religious household, it's no wonder that she published books that drew attention to spiritual things. In this particular volume, she specifically talks about angels, those heavenly companions appointed to guard and guide each human being from infancy through adulthood and even until one's last breath.
Mrs. Sangster describes angels as "ministering spirits sent forth to minister to them who shall be heirs to salvation" and recounts various periods in Biblical history where angels have indeed come to aid and encourage men.
But she does not only speak of the "spiritual" sort of angels - she also identifies everyday angels, who are any of those who take time to listen, comfort, and help others.
Readers may note the underlying tones of joy in the sentences of this book. It is clear that this is one which is written with love and with an intention to inspire and encourage. One does not need to be a Christian in order to benefit from When Angels Come to Men - it's suitable for anyone seeking encouragement and enlightenment on what angels are and what it means to be one.
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This book Is not for the reference library. It is by no means encyclopaedic, and it has not been written with the view of imparting information. As I have thought of the little kingdom of home, and its ethical bearings, its relation to other homes, to society and the nation, I have had a vision and a dream of its significance and its possibilities. Woman sprovince, she cannot reign in it alone. Man and woman must unite in the true home. Every home, however unobtrusive, has its motive, its inspiration, and its inevitable effect on contiguous homes. No later institution has supplanted the family. From it all other human organizations take their rise, as flow( from seed, as stream from source. On the intei rity of the family, and the conservatism of home, depend the stability of our republic. Tj flag we love waves to-day in the Far East. S( of our homes have carried it thither. Our wealtl grows greater every year.
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Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (pen name, Aunt Marjorie) was an American poet, author, and editor.
Background
She was born on February 22, 1838 at New Rochelle, New York, United States. The daughter of John and Margaret (Chisholm) Munson. Her father, a Wesleyan Methodist, was born in England in 1786; her mother was of Scotch Covenanter parentage.
The austere atmosphere of the Munson home was due to the serious mother, twenty years her husband's junior, for John Munson was of a cheerful, spontaneous temperament. When Margaret was three, the family removed to New York. Under her mother's instruction, she became able to read at the age of four almost any book.
John Munson's restlessness and real-estate changes caused the family to remove to Paterson, N. J. , when Margaret was eight. In 1854 her father died and her mother's brother, David Chisholm, came to live with the family and assumed its responsibilities.
Education
She attended Passaic Seminary, a Baptist institution, and became much interested in foreign missions. The only other school in which she was a pupil was that of Monsieur Paul Abadie in Brooklyn, N. Y. , where she studied Latin, Greek, and French, and secured a diploma.
Career
Having filled many blank books with verse and essays, about 1855 Margaret wrote Little Janey, the story of a child's life, which was purchased for forty dollars and printed by the Presbyterian Board of Publication. The Board then gave her a commission for a hundred juvenile stories related to assigned pictures. In an effort to earn more money she "wasted" time studying music and painting and teaching embroidery to children.
During the Civil War George Sangster became an officer in the Union army and after the war the family settled at Norfolk, Va. , where, in spite of existing bitterness between Northerners and Southerners, they made many warm friends. In 1870 they removed to Brooklyn, N. Y. , and in 1871 George Sangster died.
In Norfolk Mrs. Sangster had contributed prose and verse to the Christian Intelligencer, Sunday-School Times, Independent, and Hearth and Home. Faced with the necessity of earning a living, she naturally turned to writing. The editor of Hearth and Home, George Cary Eggleston, engaged her to write a series of articles, and a year later put her in charge of the children's page, formerly conducted by Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge. Shortly after, she became assistant editor. Within the next three years she was thrice offered the position of dean in women's educational institutions, but preferred to continue in journalism.
When Hearth and Home ceased publication, Dec. 25, 1875, other editorial positions were offered her. She edited the family page of the Christian Intelligencer, was literary adviser for Harper & Brothers, postmistress of Harper's Young People, and finally editor of Harper's Bazar (1889 - 99). She was also a contributor to the Christian Herald, the Ladies' Home Journal, and the Woman's Home Companion. Though she wrote several novels, most of her volumes of prose and verse are compilations from her magazine articles.
Among the best of her works are Poems of the Household (1882), Little Knights and Ladies (1895), Home Life Made Beautiful in Story, Song, Sketch, and Picture (1897), Cheerful To-days and Trustful To-morrows (1899), Winsome Womanhood (1900), Lyrics of Love, of Hearth and Home, and Field and Garden (1901), Janet Ward, a Daughter of the Manse (1902), Eleanor Lee (1903), Good Manners for All Occasions (1904), What Shall a Young Girl Read? (1905), Fairest Girlhood (1906), Ideal Home Life (1910), Eastover Parish (1912), My Garden of Hearts (1913), a collection of stories and essays issued posthumously. In 1909 she published An Autobiography: From My Youth Up; Personal Reminiscences.
During her later years she lived at Glen Ridge, and at Maplewood, N. J. , where she died. She had been blind for several years but continued her writing with the aid of secretaries. The Christian Herald for June 5, 1912, the day after her death, carried her "Home Chats, " and the issue of June 12, an article, "Choosing a Partner for Life" and a poem by her, "The End of the Day. "
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Religion
Sangster grew up a devout member of the Dutch Reformed Church and wrote many hymns and sacred texts. For fifteen years, she contributed largely to religious periodical literature.
Views
Questions that came to her editor-office made her feel that she had a "mission to girlhood" and prompted her to write letters and short essays addressed to girls and young women which were published in various magazines.
Quotations:
In speaking of her profession as a journalist she once said :-" I love it with all my heart, and would not exchange it with all its drudgery for any other position of which I can dream. Everything about it suits me and charms me. More, perhaps, than anything else, I value the opportunity it gives me to say helpful words, and reach a cordial hand to the struggling of my sex. "
Membership
Sangster was a member of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America.
Personality
She never waited for inspiration but was a day-laborer.
The tone of all her writings is cheerful, practical, rather sentimental, and very religious.
Connections
In October 1858, she was married to George Sangster, a native of Scotland, whom she had met at a Sunday school convention at which he was one of the speakers. He was a widower with two little girls, to whom Margaret became devoted. In 1859 a son, her only child, was born.