Reading plan · 93 days · 24 hr 40 min read

Women of Faith

A longer journey with three remarkable women. Hannah Whitall Smith opens the secret of a happy life, and the autobiographies of Amanda Berry Smith and Julia A. J. Foote — two Black women who preached the gospel across the nineteenth-century world — show that secret lived out at great cost.

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~16
books
3
finish, reading daily
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In this plan

Days 1–22 The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life 22 days · 5 hr 58 min read
About this book
Week 1 Days 1–7
  1. God’s Side and Man’s Side 13 min Today
  2. The Scripturalness of This Life 17 min
  3. The Life Defined 12 min
  4. How to Enter In 14 min
  5. Difficulties Concerning Consecration 14 min
  6. Difficulties Concerning Faith 14 min
  7. Difficulties Concerning the Will 15 min
Week 2 Days 8–14
  1. Is God in Everything? 16 min
  2. Growth 17 min
  3. Service 17 min
  4. Difficulties Concerning Guidance 23 min
  5. Concerning Temptation 14 min
  6. Failures 20 min
  7. Doubts 15 min
Week 3 Days 15–21
  1. Practical Results 12 min
  2. The Joy of Obedience 13 min
  3. Oneness with Christ 18 min
  4. A Lesson in the Interior Life 12 min
  5. How to Reign in the Interior Life 26 min
  6. The Chariots of God 20 min
  7. Without Me You Can Do Nothing 15 min
Week 4 Day 22
  1. The One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Psalm 22 min
Days 23–63 Amanda Smith: An Autobiography 41 days · 16 hr 46 min read
About this book
Week 1 Days 23–29
  1. Preface 3 min
  2. Introduction 12 min
  3. Birth, Parentage, and Deliverance from Slavery 14 min
  4. Removal to Pennsylvania 16 min
  5. Remembrances of My Girlhood Days 17 min
  6. Marriage and Conversion 24 min
  7. How I Bought My Sister Frances 15 min
Week 2 Days 30–36
  1. Disappointed Hopes and My Father's Death 36 min
  2. The Blessing of Sanctification 40 min
  3. My First Temptation 25 min
  4. His Presence and My Obedience 39 min
  5. Learning Thy Will Be Done 25 min
  6. My Call to Go Out 34 min
  7. My Last Call, and How I Obeyed It 37 min
Week 3 Days 37–43
  1. Remembrances of Camp Meeting 24 min
  2. Kennebunk Camp Meeting 36 min
  3. At Dr. Taylor's Church, New York 26 min
  4. The National Camp Meeting at Knoxville 21 min
  5. Sea Cliff, and First Thoughts of Africa 22 min
  6. Pittman Church, Philadelphia 32 min
  7. The Call to Go to England 30 min
Week 4 Days 44–50
  1. Liverpool, and Pages from My Diary 22 min
  2. Scotland, London, and the Call to India 43 min
  3. On the Way to India 30 min
  4. India: Notes from My Diary 35 min
  5. The Great Meeting at Bangalore 29 min
  6. Africa: Arrival at Monrovia 32 min
  7. Temperance Work at Fortsville 33 min
Week 5 Days 51–57
  1. Conference at Monrovia 32 min
  2. Old Calabar, and the Women of Africa 32 min
  3. How I Came to Take Little Bob 10 min
  4. Among the People of Creektown 24 min
  5. Liberia: Its People and Schools 27 min
  6. Cape Palmas, and a Great Revival 41 min
  7. Emigration and the Schools of Liberia 30 min
Week 6 Days 58–63
  1. Letters and Testimonials 1 min
  2. An Address from the A. M. E. Zion Church, Sierra Leone 3 min
  3. Martha Payne's Experience 4 min
  4. Mary R. Denman's Testimony 5 min
  5. Return to Liverpool, and Faith Healing 25 min
  6. Work in England, and Home Again 17 min
Days 64–93 A Brand Plucked from the Fire 30 days · 1 hr 56 min read
About this book
Week 1 Days 64–70
  1. Birth and Parentage 5 min
  2. Learning the Alphabet 4 min
  3. The Primes — Going to School 3 min
  4. My Teacher Hung for Crime 3 min
  5. An Undeserved Whipping 4 min
  6. First and Last Dancing 5 min
  7. My Conversion 4 min
Week 2 Days 71–77
  1. A Desire for Knowledge — Inward Foes 3 min
  2. Various Hopes Blasted 3 min
  3. Disobedience, but Happy Results 4 min
  4. A Religion as Old as the Bible 2 min
  5. My Marriage 4 min
  6. Boston — The Work of Full Salvation 3 min
  7. Early Fruit Gathered Home 3 min
Week 3 Days 78–84
  1. New and Unpleasant Revelations 3 min
  2. A Long-Lost Brother Found 3 min
  3. A Call to Preach the Gospel 3 min
  4. Heavenly Visitations Again 5 min
  5. Public Effort — Excommunication 5 min
  6. Women in the Gospel 4 min
  7. The Lord's Leading — Philadelphia 3 min
Week 4 Days 85–91
  1. A Visit to My Parents — Further Labors 6 min
  2. Color Indignities — General Conference 4 min
  3. Death of My Husband and Father 3 min
  4. Work in Various Places 4 min
  5. A "Threshing" Sermon 7 min
  6. My Cleveland Home — Later Labors 5 min
  7. A Word to My Christian Sisters 5 min
Week 5 Days 92–93
  1. Love not the World 6 min
  2. How to Obtain Sanctification 2 min

Authors

Hannah Whitall Smith · Amanda Berry Smith · Julia A. J. Foote

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