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Vailima Prayers and Sabbath Morn [MultiFormat]
eBook by Robert Louis Stevenson
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eBook Category: Classic Literature
eBook Description: Robert Louis Stevenson's last work, written in Samoa where he died unexpectedly. These beautiful daily prayers were written for his family and the Samoan people who shared the Stevenson home.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com/Fictionwise Classic, Published: 1895
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2004
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [23 KB]
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, Portable Document Format (PDF) [71 KB]
, Palm Doc (PDB) [9 KB]
, Microsoft Reader (LIT) [95 KB]
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, hiebook (KML) [29 KB]
, Sony Reader (LRF) [34 KB]
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Words: 3531
Reading time: 10-14 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Portable Document Format (PDF) Format: Printing ENABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
INTRODUCTION 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 knee can have no real conception of the meaning of the words he lisps so readily, yet he goes to his little bed with a sense of heavenly protection that he would miss were the prayer forgotten. The average Samoan is but a larger child in most things, and would lay an uneasy head on his wooden pillow if he had not joined, even perfunctorily, in the evening service. With my husband, prayer, the direct appeal, was a necessity. When he was happy he felt impelled to offer thanks for that undeserved joy; when in sorrow, or pain, to call for strength to bear what must be borne.
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