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**A heartening story of a domestic servant who molded wisely the lives of her employers and their children, knowing that service, whether as servant or king, is a noble destiny.** **Lloyd Cassel Douglas (1877 - 1951) born Doya C. Douglas, was an American minister and author.** He was born in Columbia City, Indiana, spent part of his boyhood in Monroeville, Indiana, Wilmot, Indiana and Florence, Kentucky, where his father, Alexander Jackson Douglas, was pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church. Douglas was ***one of the most popular American authors of his time, although he did not write his first novel until he was 50.***
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ChristianLloyd C. DouglasGrade 9Grade 10Grade 11Grade 12
First published 1936Setting
Indiana20th Century / 1930
About the author
Lloyd C. Douglas
1877 – 1951
Lloyd Douglas spent thirty full years in the ministry before he retired to devote himself to writing. His novels are written with the purpose of inspiration, and he says he is "more concerned with healing bruised spirits than winning the applause of critics." Actually he succeeds magnificently in doing both, as you will know when you have read "White Banners," the story of a servant girl who hail a theory of behavior so practical and so unusual that you will come to ask yourself in times of trouble, "How would Hannah have solved my problem?" Since the publication in 1929 of his first novel, "Magnificent Obsession," his books achieved an ever wider popularity. More than 7,000,000 copies of L…
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