Prayers Written At Vailima, and A Lowden Sabbath Morn

By Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 4, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547254522

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, changing his second name to ‘Louis’ at the age of eighteen. He has always been loved and admired by countless readers and critics for ‘the excitement, the fierce joy, the delight in strangeness, the pleasure in deep and dark adventures’ found in his classic stories and, without doubt, he created some of the most horribly unforgettable characters in literature and, above all, Mr. Edward Hyde.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Prayers Written At Vailima, and A Lowden Sabbath Morn

EAN 8596547254522

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

FOR SUCCESS

FOR GRACE

AT MORNING

EVENING

ANOTHER FOR EVENING

IN TIME OF RAIN

ANOTHER IN TIME OF RAIN

BEFORE A TEMPORARY SEPARATION

FOR FRIENDS

FOR THE FAMILY

SUNDAY

FOR SELF-BLAME

FOR SELF-FORGETFULNESS

FOR RENEWAL OF JOY

A LOWDEN SABBATH MORN

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AUTHOR’S NOTE

INTRODUCTION

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In every Samoan household the day is closed with prayer and the singing of hymns. The omission of this sacred duty would indicate, not only a lack of religious training in the house chief, but a shameless disregard of all that is reputable in Samoan social life. No doubt, to many, the evening service is no more than a duty fulfilled. The child who says his prayer at his mother’s