Christ in the Storm
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Ordinary believers with a Christian background who want short devotional reading
- Literature or history enthusiasts studying nineteenth-century English popular religious writing
- Sunday school teachers looking for adaptable scriptural meditation material
- E-book readers accustomed to short, quiet reading during commutes or before bed
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting systematic theology or academic biblical commentary
- Purely literary readers with no interest in the religious exhortation genre
- Beginning readers who need a modern Chinese translation or notes
Reading tips
- Read the corresponding Gospel passage first, then the relevant chapter of this book, comparing and reflecting on the author's angle of meditation.
- Read only a small section at a time and leave a few minutes for quiet reflection afterward; there is no need to rush through the book.
- Use notes to record metaphors or exhortations that strike you, building a personal collection of devotional material.
- If used for Sunday school, select passages related to the storm narrative and combine them with the scripture for short talks and discussion.
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
Favell Lee Mortimer (1802–1878) was an English writer of children's books. Public information about her is limited, and many details of her life remain unclear. Five of her works are held in this collection: The Peep of Day, Far Off Or, Asia and Australia Described, Christ in the Storm, The Blind Beggar of Jericho, and The Child Who Died and Lived Again. These works fall into two categories: books that explain geography and foreign lands to children in simple language, and religious and moral tales drawn from biblical stories and Christian teaching. Her writing is generally direct and plain, with short pieces suited to young readers and to reading aloud. The Peep of Day was the most widely circulated of these, a common household and Sunday-school book in the nineteenth-century English-speaking world, and it had some influence on later religious writing for children.
