The Calling of Dan Matthews Harold Bell Wright 9781530587421 Books
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The classic novel featuring a young preacher who courts a woman.
The Calling of Dan Matthews Harold Bell Wright 9781530587421 Books
Many of Wright's criticisms of the church are valid, but it seems to me that he goes overboard to the point that he dismisses the church as almost useless. Scripture teaches that Jesus built the church. It is however made up of flawed people.One of the purposes of the church is to have a place where flawed people can have relationships with other flawed people that they wouldn't necessarily otherwise associate with. This gives them the opportunity to grant the grace to other people that God has granted to them. People who stay away from church because there are flawed people there miss out on one of the methods that God uses to refine them and to learn not to think more highly of themselves than they should. It also seems to me that Wright tends to attribute righteousness to people solely on the basis of their works. Scripture teaches that God accounts righteousness to people apart from their works on the basis of their faith in His promises. The Bible describes all our good works a "filthy rags." The book is well written and the plot is excellent and thought provoking. I couldn't put it down but I think the theology is a little skewed.Product details
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The Calling of Dan Matthews Harold Bell Wright 9781530587421 Books Reviews
These two books tell the story of the twists and turns in the lives of people trying to lead good Christian Life. I found both books to be very good in telling the difference between living or just letting people think that You are a good Christian. Thank You
A wonderful page- turner of a story - after you get through the first three chapters, which are character development. It has more depth than expected and a meaningful challenge to traditional theology. The romantic tension brought much excitement along with a mixture of sadness and anticipation. This reader found it to be superior to it's forerunner The Shepard of the Hills.
I LOVE old books, and this is one of my favorites! Copyrighted in 1909 it has the flavor of the era written with the charm of the author, Harold Bell Wright. It is a book that you will have a hard time putting down, but the surprising ending may well be more autobiographical than one would first suspect. I predict that modern readers will continue loving and sharing this book with others, which is why it has become (and will likely continue to be) a classic!
I dearly LOVE, these old stories of the Ozarks, you see I was born in these hills and valleys. Harold Bell Wright walked and preached here, and I attended a CHURCH in which he ministered. His writings are such to allow you to feel as though you are right there in the moment. No vulgarity, no sex, no mendacity, just common ordinary truths about life and living, Missouri country style.
I am somewhat of a Harold bell Wright fan. I read his book for the deep meaning that he gives them, the character building lessons I learn. The calling of dan Mathews is definitely one of his best written and most timelessly relevant books he wrote. Dealing with the church,and Christianity, teaching valuable lessons in true manhood and human nature, the lessons are unusually deep. Delivered in a style that is far from boring, they are easily seen, but not necessarily easily grasped. Definitely will still be highlighting on my third read.
Bell's story of the struggles of a first time pastor in a church dominated by an unworthy elder kept my interest throughout. Although written more than 100 years ago it still rings true today.
The publisher's formatting for the does not deserve 5 stars, however. I am highly annoyed that the publisher claims a 2015 copyright in behalf of Harold Bell Wright for a book written in 1909. This is laughable, inappropriate, and illegal. The book is clearly in public domain.
There are a number of places in the text where a sentence has been sliced into 2 parts, the first half ending with no punctuation and the second half beginning with an uppercase letter and an indentation. Each chapter begins with a brief quotation from the chapter. These quotations need to be set apart from the text with additional spaces and a change in typeface to distinguish them from the beginning of the chapter.
The publisher has done the public a service in producing Bell's novel for but could render greater service by cleaning up these glitches.
Having read other Harold Bell Wright novels, I am engaged currently with this one, which is part of what is called "The Shepherd of the Hills Trilogy." As with the others (such as "That Printer of U'dell's" which, incidentally, Ronald Reagan, after reading, credited as the reason he decided to profess his Christian faith and to join a church), I will finish it in two or three days. And, as with the others, hardly can I put it down, so eager am I to get on with the story. Yet I regret deeply the conclusion of each book. Then I look for another of Wright's novels, despite the knowledge that I will weep when I have exhausted the list. "The Shepherd of the Hills" is known, at least in passing, to many of the good folks who have visited Branson (where a play memorializes the work), which is in the heart of the Ozark country featured in many of Wright's works. That novel was one of our nation's first to sell a million copies. When one considers that the population at the time was considerably less than a quarter of today's, and that books of that era (c. 1908) typically were passed from reader to reader until literally they fell apart, one can begin to comprehend the impact of the book at the time, which was enormous. Sadly, the world-famous name of Harold Bell Wright and his incomparable stories of life and love, of country and city, and of good and evil personified in his characters is scarcely recognized today. Ours is the loss. Would that more people, especially teens and pre-teens, would read more, and would read more elevating, edifying literature than the trashy variety dominating the bookstores and the s.
Many of Wright's criticisms of the church are valid, but it seems to me that he goes overboard to the point that he dismisses the church as almost useless. Scripture teaches that Jesus built the church. It is however made up of flawed people.One of the purposes of the church is to have a place where flawed people can have relationships with other flawed people that they wouldn't necessarily otherwise associate with. This gives them the opportunity to grant the grace to other people that God has granted to them. People who stay away from church because there are flawed people there miss out on one of the methods that God uses to refine them and to learn not to think more highly of themselves than they should. It also seems to me that Wright tends to attribute righteousness to people solely on the basis of their works. Scripture teaches that God accounts righteousness to people apart from their works on the basis of their faith in His promises. The Bible describes all our good works a "filthy rags." The book is well written and the plot is excellent and thought provoking. I couldn't put it down but I think the theology is a little skewed.
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