The secret is out! This inspirational book will allow you to know the true meaning of ole school with a blessing of understanding. Are you ready to turn the pages of this book and allow the pages to turn once again for you? The contents of this book is moving you to the next level of what is about to take place in the spirit.. Turn now the pages and watch them bless you! Lets go right down memory lane and walk the streets of lyrics and stand under the street lights and see who is singing encouragement and inspiration to you... Come Go With Me.....
‘We were married after three years at opposite ends of the world.... We then, too rapidly for comfort, made off in a snowstorm for the South Seas.... All this we imprudently did in our late forties.’ Thus Muriel Jones introduces her account, originally published in 1974, of how she came to start her married life in the Solomon Islands, ‘whose impact was traumatic, perhaps just because we were not in our first youth or innocent of other tropical experience’. ‘St Peter’s College was the only thing at Siota’; there was no store and the only post office on the island ‘was so difficult of access that I never visited it ... we ourselves did most of the postal business – quite informally – at our end of the island’. It is not surprising that even high-ranking visitors tended to arrive looking like ship-wrecked sailors. ‘If one was ill enough to see a doctor one was, on the whole, too ill to be subjected to several hours of sun or rain in an open boat and a probable night en route.’ There is, too, the account of the old lady whose family, on her death, wanted to bury her in a coffin instead of the customary mat. ‘Poor old lady; at the end of all these exertions, the coffin with her in it stood in the church for the funeral, uneasily supported on two rickety small tables from our sitting room, mutely exhorting us to STOW AWAY FROM BOILERS.’ Muriel Jones tells the unusual story of her five Melanesian years, of the impact of Christianity on a pagan people, of her husband’s college and its move to another island, of the students, the islands and their animals and exotic vegetation, of the islanders (nine-tenths of whom live in communities ranging from twenty to two hundred people) and of their changing way of life. Her story takes one about as far as it is possible to go from an urban civilisation and in telling it she reveals the resources of her own character.
Shattered Dreams, Broken Promises; Yet Still A Strong Woman is a novel based on a young woman's journey from heartbreak to victory. Making a few bad choice along the way, she'd learned many lessons. Betrayal, brokenness and pain. She is depending on the God she served to restore all that was lost. When you have a relationship with God, there will be test and trials, valleys and mountains, dry places and oasis, tears and joy but in the end an experience that will spring forth strength to fulfill the dream of a lifetime. Travel this journey and witness her stormy situations that turned into her rainbow in the sky. "The rainbow is a promise from God that the storm has passed!
In Animated Animals and Other Creatures, Muriel E. Jones takes a light--hearted look at birds and beasts of land, sea and air in every corner of the world. From the hilarious, gregarious penguin of the Antarctic to the jewel-like hummingbird of the tropics or the delicately mannered field mouse nibbling corn in an English barn, each animal is thoroughly researched and accurately described in rhyme. The habits and characters of the hedgehog and the hippo, the cuckoo and the camel are humorously examined in a way that will delight and inspire the young naturalist ¿ especially those who love big words!
Russia and Iran, 1780–1828 was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Modern Russo-Iranian relations date from the late eighteenth century, when after several centuries of commercial and diplomatic contact, the two nations entered a period of extended warfare for possession of the Caucasian borderlands, disputed territory that eventually fell to Russia. In her history of that struggle, Muriel Atkin reasseses the motives of major figures on both sides and views the Iranians with more sympathy than Western and Russian historians have usually accorded them. Russia embarked on her course in the Caucasus for reasons connected with defense or trade, and with a longterm imperial goal based on uncritical acceptance of prevailing European doctrines of empire. The new dynasty in Iran, on the other hand, had to fend off Russian attack and secure the borderlands in order to justify its basic claim to power. In the end, the wars brought major disruption to the already unstable borderlands, and left Iran with a discredited government and a controversy over reforms and relations with the West that would continue to cause turmoil in subsequent generations.
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