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From Different Standpoints
When Perry Harrison thought his life was in danger, he gave his heart to the Lord Jesus. But God had other plans for Perry and his life was miraculously spared.
From Perry’s standpoint, God saved him for a reason. With his beautiful new wife Eleanor by his side, Perry vows to use his fortune and his restored health to make a difference in the world for Christ.
Eunice Taylor has been Perry’s close friend since childhood—so close that he calls her his little sister. And from Eunice’s standpoint, Perry made a horrible mistake by marrying Eleanor Haddington. Eunice desperately wants to make Perry see that the woman he married is not the peerless flower he thinks she is. But is Eunice acting merely out of friendship? Or has jealousy gained a foothold in a once unbreakable friendship?
This unabridged version of the 1878 classic Christian novel includes a biography of the author, group discussion questions, and additional bonus content.
From Perry’s standpoint, God saved him for a reason. With his beautiful new wife Eleanor by his side, Perry vows to use his fortune and his restored health to make a difference in the world for Christ.
Eunice Taylor has been Perry’s close friend since childhood—so close that he calls her his little sister. And from Eunice’s standpoint, Perry made a horrible mistake by marrying Eleanor Haddington. Eunice desperately wants to make Perry see that the woman he married is not the peerless flower he thinks she is. But is Eunice acting merely out of friendship? Or has jealousy gained a foothold in a once unbreakable friendship?
This unabridged version of the 1878 classic Christian novel includes a biography of the author, group discussion questions, and additional bonus content.
- GenresChristian Fiction
270 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 19, 2013
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Pansy
341 books31 followersNote: In her lifetime, Isabella Macdonald Alden was usually published under the pseudonym Pansy, and occasionally under the name Mrs. G.R. Alden.
Aunt to Grace Livingston Hill
The sixth of seven children born to Isaac and Myra Spafford Macdonald, of Rochester, New York, Isabella Macdonald received her early education from her father, who home-schooled her, and gave her a nickname - "Pansy" - that she would use for many of her publications. As a girl, she kept a daily journal, critiqued by her father, and she published her first story - The Old Clock - in a village paper when she was ten years old.
Macdonald's education continued at the Oneida Seminary, the Seneca Collegiate Institute, and the Young Ladies Institute, all in New York. It was at the Oneida Seminary that she met her long-time friend (and eventual co-author), Theodosia Toll, who secretly submitted one of Macdonald's manuscripts in a competition, setting in motion a chain of events that would lead to the publication of her first book, Helen Lester, in 1865.
Macdonald also met her future husband, the Rev. Gustavus Rossenberg Alden, at the Oneida Seminary, and the two were married in 1866. Now Isabella Macdonald Alden, the newly-married minister's wife followed her husband as his postings took them around the country, dividing her time between writing, church duties, and raising her son Raymond (born 1873).
A prolific author, who wrote approximately one hundred novels from 1865 to 1929, and co-authored ten more, Alden was also actively involved in the world of children's and religious periodicals, publishing numerous short stories, editing the Sunday Juvenile Pansy from 1874-1894, producing Sunday School lessons for The Westminster Teacher for twenty years, and working on the editorial staff of various other magazines (Trained Motherhood, The Christian Endeavor).
Highly influenced by her Christian beliefs, much of Alden's work was explicitly moral and didactic, and often found its way into Sunday School libraries. It was also immensely popular, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with an estimated 100,000 copies of Alden's books sold, in 1900.
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Aunt to Grace Livingston Hill
The sixth of seven children born to Isaac and Myra Spafford Macdonald, of Rochester, New York, Isabella Macdonald received her early education from her father, who home-schooled her, and gave her a nickname - "Pansy" - that she would use for many of her publications. As a girl, she kept a daily journal, critiqued by her father, and she published her first story - The Old Clock - in a village paper when she was ten years old.
Macdonald's education continued at the Oneida Seminary, the Seneca Collegiate Institute, and the Young Ladies Institute, all in New York. It was at the Oneida Seminary that she met her long-time friend (and eventual co-author), Theodosia Toll, who secretly submitted one of Macdonald's manuscripts in a competition, setting in motion a chain of events that would lead to the publication of her first book, Helen Lester, in 1865.
Macdonald also met her future husband, the Rev. Gustavus Rossenberg Alden, at the Oneida Seminary, and the two were married in 1866. Now Isabella Macdonald Alden, the newly-married minister's wife followed her husband as his postings took them around the country, dividing her time between writing, church duties, and raising her son Raymond (born 1873).
A prolific author, who wrote approximately one hundred novels from 1865 to 1929, and co-authored ten more, Alden was also actively involved in the world of children's and religious periodicals, publishing numerous short stories, editing the Sunday Juvenile Pansy from 1874-1894, producing Sunday School lessons for The Westminster Teacher for twenty years, and working on the editorial staff of various other magazines (Trained Motherhood, The Christian Endeavor).
Highly influenced by her Christian beliefs, much of Alden's work was explicitly moral and didactic, and often found its way into Sunday School libraries. It was also immensely popular, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with an estimated 100,000 copies of Alden's books sold, in 1900.
Information taken from:
readseries.com
isabellamacdonaldalden.com
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August 30, 2017
Listened to LibriVox recording of From Different Standpoints by Pansy; Faye Huntington.
Read in English by TriciaG. Very good job reading this old story.
Read in English by TriciaG. Very good job reading this old story.
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November 27, 2025After a slow start followed a great book.
November 6, 2020
Entertaining but equally thought provoking, heart examining book, like all Pansy's books.
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