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The Uttermost Star
A collection of essays by F. W. Boreham.
Boreham wrote at least 50 full-length books and has been called the greatest essayist in the English language. His work has been hailed in recent days by Billy and Ruth Graham, Ravi Zacharias, and Warren Wiersbe as one of the most under-appreciated authors of the 20th century. While almost all of his works are rare and out of print, some selling for hundreds of dollars, we are working to make more of them available through the Kindle store for modern readers.
"Of the books that have played the greatest role in molding me, I count many volumes by especially one writer: F. W. Boreham. He authored more than fifty books of essays and pastored congregations in New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia. He was not the classical preacher, not even a profound, deep preacher, but he was marvelous at seeing beauty in the simple things of life. He heeded John Wesley's charge to young preachers to blend simplicity with sublimity, 'the strongest sense in the plainest language."
—Ravi Zacharias
Boreham wrote at least 50 full-length books and has been called the greatest essayist in the English language. His work has been hailed in recent days by Billy and Ruth Graham, Ravi Zacharias, and Warren Wiersbe as one of the most under-appreciated authors of the 20th century. While almost all of his works are rare and out of print, some selling for hundreds of dollars, we are working to make more of them available through the Kindle store for modern readers.
"Of the books that have played the greatest role in molding me, I count many volumes by especially one writer: F. W. Boreham. He authored more than fifty books of essays and pastored congregations in New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia. He was not the classical preacher, not even a profound, deep preacher, but he was marvelous at seeing beauty in the simple things of life. He heeded John Wesley's charge to young preachers to blend simplicity with sublimity, 'the strongest sense in the plainest language."
—Ravi Zacharias
278 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 30, 2014
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F.W. Boreham
204 books57 followersRev. Dr. Frank W. Boreham
(March 3rd 1871 – May 18th 1959) Served, and wrote, in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.
(March 3rd 1871 – May 18th 1959) Served, and wrote, in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.
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August 22, 2021
By now anyone who reads my reviews of anything written by Boreham knows the drill. I adore this man and the way he views the world and all things spiritual. And he remains the most well-read should I have yet encountered. My three favorite essays in this volume are The Uttermost Star, Marjorie, and, Slip!. Here are the quotes I want to have readily available (there are many more that I wanted to include but some may cause disagreement and I am too tired for that)...
"The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object is covered over with things which speak to the intelligent." -Emerson
"The universe, like the baby on my study floor, is always pathetically trying to talk to me; and the pity of it is that I am so slow to understand."
"I saw, as I listened that a soul has a rhetoric of its own, an eloquence with which no acquired oratory can compare."
"Slippery people are an abomination; but slippered people are invariably lovable folk."
"What the tree displays is as nothing to what the tree hides."
"It is part of the pathos of this pathetic old world that we are not introduced to many of the people best worth knowing until after they have dropped into their graves."
"There are souls that are so calm just because they are so strong."
"For the matter of that, every Village Green is crowded with preachers. For what is a green field but so many millions of blades of grass? And what is more eloquent than a blade of grass?"
"In spite of all oaths and affidavits, no man ever yet told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It is not in the power of mortals to do it."
"As soon as you commercialize a good thing, whether it be a temple, a football field, or a Parliament, you degrade it. As soon as you commercialize a bad thing, you perpetuate it."
"God does not toy with our holiest affections, giving us one day those whom He would have us love, and the next day taking them from us. Our own are our own for ever."
"The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object is covered over with things which speak to the intelligent." -Emerson
"The universe, like the baby on my study floor, is always pathetically trying to talk to me; and the pity of it is that I am so slow to understand."
"I saw, as I listened that a soul has a rhetoric of its own, an eloquence with which no acquired oratory can compare."
"Slippery people are an abomination; but slippered people are invariably lovable folk."
"What the tree displays is as nothing to what the tree hides."
"It is part of the pathos of this pathetic old world that we are not introduced to many of the people best worth knowing until after they have dropped into their graves."
"There are souls that are so calm just because they are so strong."
"For the matter of that, every Village Green is crowded with preachers. For what is a green field but so many millions of blades of grass? And what is more eloquent than a blade of grass?"
"In spite of all oaths and affidavits, no man ever yet told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It is not in the power of mortals to do it."
"As soon as you commercialize a good thing, whether it be a temple, a football field, or a Parliament, you degrade it. As soon as you commercialize a bad thing, you perpetuate it."
"God does not toy with our holiest affections, giving us one day those whom He would have us love, and the next day taking them from us. Our own are our own for ever."
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