Ester Ried

MP3 Audio CD. The story of Ester Ried is an overcast tedium of working at her family?s abode. Ester is stressed at work and even envious and irritable, a not-so-good Christian to everyone. But then she renews herself to become a good advocate of God because of her down to earth cousin.

Ester's Home; What Sadie Thought; Florence Vane; The Sunday Lesson; The Poor Little Fish; Something Happens; Journeying; Journey's End; Cousin Abbie; Ester's Minister; The New Boarder; Three People; The Strange Christian; The Little Card; What Is The Difference?; A Victory; Stepping Between; Light Out Of Darkness; Sundries; At Home; Tested; "Little Plum Pies"; Crosses; God's Way; Sadie Surrounded; Confusion--Cross-Bearing?Consequence; The Time To Sleep; and At Last.

Isabella Macdonald Alden was an American author who wrote under her pen name, Pansy, as her father would call her. She was the daughter of her intellectual parents Isaac Alden and Myra Spafford Macdonald. At an early age, she developed a skill in writing a daily journal. When she was ten years old, she wrote her first book ?Our Old Clock? and was published. She was married to Reverend Gustavus Rossenberg Alden and had a son named Raymond. She pursued in writing, attending to church activities, and teaching at Oneida Seminary in New York.

Alden wrote around 100 books, which are mostly influenced by religious values. Her works are mostly inspired by Biblical passages and translated it into what a good Christian should be. Her books were also based on life experiences, some others by her interest in the Chautauqua movement.

Alden was very close to her sister Marcia, who married the Reverend Charles Livingston, they lived under one house for several years. When Alden?s husband and son died, she lived with her daughter-in-law. Her unfinished autobiography, Memories of Yesterday, was completed by her niece, Grace Livingston Hill.