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Pathway of Roses
This autobiography of Boreham, preacher and contemporary of Spurgeon and Moody, is encouraging as it relates personal accounts of God's protection and provision for him.
254 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
About the author
F.W. Boreham
126 books57 followersRev. Dr. Frank W. Boreham
(March 3rd 1871 – May 18th 1959) Served, and wrote, in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.
(March 3rd 1871 – May 18th 1959) Served, and wrote, in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.
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December 2, 2019
Boreham does it again! I loved this autobiography. How grateful I am for his ability to see scripture and the world in such a unique light. Here are some tastes of his viewpoint and humour:
"A cat has nine lives but a child's expectancy has a thousand."
"My mother trusted me! She implicitly believed my word! The whole scheme of life seemed a grander, holier thing from that memorable moment."
"This selfsame school-fellow of mine rendered me one other service that has profoundly influenced my whole career. He taught me to love books."
"I felt that no punishment could be too severe for a young lady who could be guilty of such cold-blooded cruelty. So, later on, I married her. But that is another story." (She called one of his drawings ordinary.)
"A wise minister will make the post office an important adjunct to his pulpit."
"As soon as I began to preach, I began to keep a journal in which the impressions left upon my mind by each service are recorded. It is quite a good thing to do."
"Read, my dear man," he exclaimed, pacing the veranda in his characteristic way. "Read; and read systematically; and keep on reading: never give up!"
"As a rule I would rather write a dozen letters than face the ordeal of calling on a stranger."
"Following each birth, the mother went down into the valley of the shadow and remained there for many dark and dreadful months." (Best description of post partum depression that I have ever read.)
"The delicate mechanism of the spiritual realm is not operated by clockwork. There is no guarantee that a certain cause will, on two separate occasions, produce automatically the same results. 'The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof;' and only those who are sensitive to the movements of those heavenly currents, and whose ears are attuned to those mysterious vibrations, can enter into the profound secret of celestial guidance and control."
"Discovering that the memory does not readily retain passages that occur in borrowed books, I made up my mind to posses myself of each volume before reading it. With this end in view, I pledged myself to by a book a week and to read a book a week, and I faithfully kept my vow for more than twenty years. In view of the exceedingly modest stipend on which we subsisted in those early days, this system sometimes involved us in a slight economic embarrassment. But, as I shall demonstrate in due course, the books soon began to buy themselves and the task of balancing the household budget was thereby happily simplified."
"A cat has nine lives but a child's expectancy has a thousand."
"My mother trusted me! She implicitly believed my word! The whole scheme of life seemed a grander, holier thing from that memorable moment."
"This selfsame school-fellow of mine rendered me one other service that has profoundly influenced my whole career. He taught me to love books."
"I felt that no punishment could be too severe for a young lady who could be guilty of such cold-blooded cruelty. So, later on, I married her. But that is another story." (She called one of his drawings ordinary.)
"A wise minister will make the post office an important adjunct to his pulpit."
"As soon as I began to preach, I began to keep a journal in which the impressions left upon my mind by each service are recorded. It is quite a good thing to do."
"Read, my dear man," he exclaimed, pacing the veranda in his characteristic way. "Read; and read systematically; and keep on reading: never give up!"
"As a rule I would rather write a dozen letters than face the ordeal of calling on a stranger."
"Following each birth, the mother went down into the valley of the shadow and remained there for many dark and dreadful months." (Best description of post partum depression that I have ever read.)
"The delicate mechanism of the spiritual realm is not operated by clockwork. There is no guarantee that a certain cause will, on two separate occasions, produce automatically the same results. 'The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof;' and only those who are sensitive to the movements of those heavenly currents, and whose ears are attuned to those mysterious vibrations, can enter into the profound secret of celestial guidance and control."
"Discovering that the memory does not readily retain passages that occur in borrowed books, I made up my mind to posses myself of each volume before reading it. With this end in view, I pledged myself to by a book a week and to read a book a week, and I faithfully kept my vow for more than twenty years. In view of the exceedingly modest stipend on which we subsisted in those early days, this system sometimes involved us in a slight economic embarrassment. But, as I shall demonstrate in due course, the books soon began to buy themselves and the task of balancing the household budget was thereby happily simplified."
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