The Book
By the Gracious Management of Divine Providence, God has been pleased to allow us to publish another book!

Less than 100 pages, this, our third publication "The Stranger at Home" is quality literature well worth your reading.    To make a beautiful set, this book is bound with the same quality as that of "The Basket of Flowers."

Last published in 1871, it has long been out of print; and now, you can have a copy of your own or give one as a gift to a loved one.

The story centers on Elvira, a spoiled and rebellious girl, and how her godly parents and wise siblings deal with her disruptive behavior. Although the work is unsigned, there is no evidence that it is fictional; instead, its details, yet lack of embellishments, lead the reader to understand this to be the author's account of her own childhood experience. Of special note is the sweet, gracious, yet irresistible power of God in the last chapter.

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STUDY GUIDE
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Stranger at Home on
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read by Shirley Cole

I love the fact that it's a 'homeschooling' sort of family and it revolves around discipline and education.  Georgene Gerard
Christian Curriculum Cellar

Many thanks for ... "The Stranger at Home".  Just finished reading it, and how it did hit home!  It reminded me so much of myself growing up, and how impossible I was to discipline.  Only the power of the Lord Jesus Christ can break such a spirit--which He did with me, thank His Dear Name!  I'm not what I want to be, but I do know I'm not what I used to be!! 
It really is a terrible thing to be left to one's self.

Mary Trawick
Radio Bible and Book Room

... we'd like to see two copies of The Stranger at Home to review for the Christian Library Journal. 

Nancy Hesch
Christian Library Services

Excerpts
"My mamma was very much hurt; but as I had been from her so many years, she seemed resolved to try for a while what patience would do: and she took occasion that morning, when we were reading the Bible, to speak of the character of our Saviour, and, to point out how he had lived with his mother and his reputed father, until he was thirty years of age, submitting to their will in every thing.
     She also told me, that the authority of parents over their children was given to them by the Almighty; and that, at the same time, in order to prevent parents from misusing their power, and from being cruel to their little ones, such a feeling of love was put into their hearts as has nothing on earth to compare with it for strength and purity, and nothing in heaven but the love of God towards his creatures.
     Then she went on to say, that as the wisdom of children consists in obeying their parents, the wisdom of grown people consists in obeying God; and as parents often oblige their children to obey by chastising them, so God compels his people to do well by bringing afflictions upon them. And she concluded by explaining that while God continues to chastise his rebellious people, there is hope for them; and while parents continue to correct their naughty children, they have hope also for them: but that the most terrible of all conditions for the wicked is, when those who are in authority over them cease to use chastisement to them.

     When my mother ceased to speak, I looked hard at her..."

    "There was within me, at the time of which I am speaking, a strange and stubborn will, such as might have produced consequences, even in this present life, more terrible than I can bear to think of, if it had not been repressed by such prudent and, as some might think, almost cruel measures, as my parents thought proper to adopt."

"...it often happens that one rebellions child is enough, to destroy the peace of a whole family."

"I  must obey my parents," she answered; and, forcing herself from me, she ran with my other sisters down stairs."

"Elvira," he replied, "I pity you. What state can be more lamentable than that of a stranger at home?"

"I cannot say how long I was engaged in prayer..."

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