Aunt Harding's Keepsakes: Or The two Bibles

Two sisters with very different personalities react to gifts from their loving aunt. Aunt Harding's Keepsakes is a Christian tale with a good-hearted message. Very easy to read with an almost Louisa May Alcott style. Daniel Parish Kidder was an American Methodist Episcopal theologian and writer, born at Darien, Genesee County, N.Y.. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1836, entered the ministry, and in 1837 went as a missionary to Brazil, where he was the first to preach a Protestant sermon in some time. After his return to the United States in 1840, he served as a corresponding secretary of the Methodist Sunday School Union and editor of Sundayschool publications and tracts (1844-1856), as professor of homiletics in Garrett Biblical Institute for 15 years and in Drew Theological Seminary for 10 years, and as secretary of the board of education of his church (1880-1887). The rest of his life was spent in Evanston, Illinois. His Treatise on Homiletics (1864, 1884) and The Christian Pastorate (1871) are the books for which he is best known. His other works include: The Good Resolution (edited) (1831), Mormonism and the Mormons (1844), Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil (1845), The Sunday School Reciter (1846), The Early Dead (1847) and Aunt Harding's Keepsakes; or, The Two Bibles (edited) (1851). ---From Wikipedia