"Aunt Amy: or, How Minnie Brown Learned to Be a Sunbeam" (Uncle Toby's Library) by Francis Forrester, published by Geo Rand & Avery, Boston, 1856, copyright 1853 by the author (Daniel Wise).

Hard boards, original red cloth with blind embossed decorations; gold on spine [some wear: see photos]; 4.3/4" x 6.1/4"; yellow colored endpapers, 64 pages, several woodcut text illustrations, soiling, good condition.

"In a few days after this visit to Mrs. Button’s cottage, aunt Amy returned to her home. Minnie was sorry to have her go, but she knew it was proper for her to do so, and she did not complain. She felt lonesome at first; but she did not forget the precious lesson her aunt had taught her. She had been a good and gentle girl before; now she was a light in her home, and her presence was as sunshine to all who knew her, and especially to Kate Button, who became a bright scholar in her Sunday school. She had her little failings, it is true; but she tried hard to subdue them; and henceforth the purpose of her life wasTO BE AS A SUNBEAM, ALWAYS SHINING ON THE HEARTS OF OTHERS." [p.64]

Reverend Daniel Wise (1813-1898) also wrote under the pseudonyms Francis Forrester and Lawrence Lancewood was a Methodist Episcopal clerical author, born in Portsmouth, England. He entered the United States in 1833, and became a pastor (1837-52). He worked as an editor of Zion's Herald (1852-56), and corresponding secretary of the Sunday School Union and Tract Society of his church (1856-72). Part of his duty as secretary was to edit all the publications of the society. He published more than 40 books, including: The Path of Life (1847), The Saintly and Successful Worker (1879), Heroic Methodists of the Olden Time (1882), Our Missionary Heroes and Heroines (1884), Young Knights of the Cross (1887), Faith, Hope, Love, and Duty (1891), Aunt Amy; or, How Minnie Brown Learned to be a Sunbeam (1853) and others.

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