The Personal Touch
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with a Christian background who wish to deepen their practice of personal care
- Coworkers engaged in pastoral care, visitation, or church service
- Readers interested in late nineteenth-century English religious essays
- Readers who wish to reflect on interpersonal relationships and influence in devotional reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers without a religious background who seek secular psychological self-help methods
- Readers expecting systematic theological discussion or academic research material
- Younger readers who prefer modern vernacular Chinese or contemporary case studies
Reading tips
- Begin by reading through the table of contents, and prioritize chapters related to personal care.
- Read one short section at a time; pause after each reading to write down your reflections or prayers.
- Read alongside relevant Bible passages to deepen understanding of the book’s ideas.
- If used for sermon preparation, excerpt examples from the book as introductions rather than adopting its arguments directly.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
John Wilbur Chapman (1859–1918) was an American Presbyterian minister and evangelist, active in the itinerant evangelistic movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Public information about his life is limited, and only two of his works are held here: And Judas Iscariot and The Personal Touch. Judging by their subjects, his writing centers on biblical figures and the practice of faith—the former focuses on Judas Iscariot, the latter on personal contact and influence in the life of faith—and bears a distinctly evangelistic character. His style tends to address ordinary believers, setting out doctrine and devotional experience in plain language for the purposes of preaching and exhortation. As one of the itinerant evangelists of his day, his works echoed his evangelistic activity and hold a certain representative value for their era, helping readers understand the character of American evangelical religious writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
