Man's relationship to God in creation was based on works. What Adam failed to achieve, Christ, the second Adam, succeeded in achieving. Ultimately the only way one can be justified is by works. (R.C.Sproul) Works! Works! A man gets to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand! (George Whitefield) “With the wolves you cannot be too severe. With the weak sheep you cannot be too gentle.” (Martin Luther on false teachers)

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Be my Guest, Edgar

The pics are of a little cloth-bound pocket-sized book that I picked up at a local church 'garage sale'. Cost me a paltry 50 cents (US!). The copyright date is 1921, and it appears to be a first edition. The book is in excellent condition, with only a muted mark on the front cover - otherwise, the corners are intact and undamaged, as are all the pages. Check HERE for some 'skinny' on Edgar Guest. Perhaps his most enduring, and popular, line from his poems is "it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home".
The book was a Christmas gift, as indicated on the inside 'fly-leaf', in 1926. Edgar Guest died fifty years ago, in August, 1959.




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