Round the Sphere Again: Bits of History
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 3:42PM 
Timing is Everything
Never heard of Harriet Quimby? There’s a reason for that (mental_floss Blog).
Discipline with a Gentle Hand
Lucy Thurston, early missionary to Hawaii, endured a mastectomy done without any anaesthetic. Later, she wrote a letter to her daughter describing it (Letters of Note). (Be forewarned: Her description is realistic, but worth reading unless you are very sensitive.)
Learning from the Puritans
Who they were (Heritage Booktalk).
Doctrinally, Puritanism was a kind of vigorous Calvinism; experientially, it was warm and contagious; evangelistically, it was aggressive, yet tender; ecclesiastically, it was theocentric and worshipful; politically, it aimed to be scriptural, balanced, and bound by conscience before God in the relations of king, Parliament, and subjects.
Why you might want to read them (Heritage Booktalk).
With the Spirit’s blessing, Puritan writings can enrich your life as a Christian in many ways as they open the Scriptures and apply them practically, probing your conscience, indicting your sins, leading you to repentance, shaping your faith, guiding your conduct, comforting you in Christ and conforming you to Him, and bringing you into full assurance of salvation and a lifestyle of gratitude to the triune God for His great salvation.
How they viewed wealth (The Upward Call).
Reader Comments (3)
I read the story about Lucy Thurston. My, that was really something! I can't imagine enduring it.
"Depraved, diseased, helpless, I yielded myself up entirely to the will, the wisdom, and the strength of the Holy One." Lucy Thurston really meant that prayer, obviously. Even so, she was a very courageous woman to endure that surgery. Unimaginable.
Definitely God's mercy that Lucy Thurston survived the surgery and the potential complications afterwards.