Safed and Keturah (Safed's Parables Book 3)

A reprint edition of William E. Barton's classic parables, with Scripture verses added.. William Eleazar Barton (1861-1930) was a Congregational minister and a prolific author. Among his writings are hundreds of short works known as the Parables of Safed the Sage, in which he characterizes himself as the philosopher Safed, and his wife Esther as Keturah. These parables originally appeared as a magazine column, and were later compiled into several books due to popular demand. Inspired by Barton's own life experiences, they were intended "to teach their homely lessons of kindness, faith and courage in terms that are easily intelligible." Anecdotes from the everyday are treated with thought-provoking candor, along with the right touch of humor to make them truly memorable. . "If they are fitted to add to the enjoyment of life, that in itself is worth while. If they teach some wholesome lessons, and discover in common things suggestions of things spiritual, the author is doubly glad." - W. E. Barton. Parables in Volume 3: The Cherry Pie, The Shoes Under the Bed, The System of Keturah, The Sunny Side of the Street, The Spliced String, Of Knowing Too Little and Too Much, The Stone Half Way Up, The Millionaire and the Scrublady, The Long Walk, The Pet Aversions, Things That Are Small, Asking and Receiving, The Late Arrival, The Iron Fetters, The Great Game, The Ship That Did Not Sail, Something Different, The Moving Vehicles, Perhaps, The Courage of the Captain, Rising Above the Clouds, The Oyster Shell, The Gravity Trolley, The Frog and the Hornet, The Barometer, The Private Car, Reformers, The Man Who Saw New York, The Cocoanut Cakes, The Viol That Was Almost In Tune, The Roadrunner, The Guest-Room Towels, Pens, Consistency, Profanity, The Evil and Good of Gossip, The Kind of People In Our Town, The Ethiopian Maiden and the Alarm Clock, The Contented Conductor, The Strawberry Sundae, The Traffic Cop and the Blind Man, The Screens and the Shoes, Things Not to Be Forgotten, The Car Wheels, Things Ancient and Modern, The Shoestrings, The Lost Tooth, The Transformed Tooth, The Minister and the Saw, The Transplanted Pine, The Value of Things Despised, The Flesh and the Spirit, The Hornets' Nest, Heroes and Heroines, Good Health and Veracity, Failure and Success, The Bed and the Mattress, Proteids and Calories, The Doughboy and the Kitten, The Pianola, The Unidentified Taste, The Keeper of the Inn, Being Put Off At Oconomowoc, The Man Who Ran Over A Rattlesnake, The Worm In the Concrete Gutter, Philosophy and Money, The Convention of the Lumbermen, The Autumn Hollyhocks, The Golden Hair, The Little Girl In the Blue Dress, Seeing the Fire Engine, The Wives of the Prophet