Here is the chapter I read this morning from “Gaining Favor with God and Man” by William Thayer (originally published in 1893). I thoroughly enjoyed this chapter. The following is an excerpt:
“A pleasure party on a small lake were enjoying themselves, when a young lady changed her position so suddenly that the boat dipped a little water. She uttered a scream, and sprang to the other side; others did the same, upsetting the boat, and…(read the rest here)”
Here is the chapter I read this morning from “Gaining Favor with God and Man” by William Thayer (originally published in 1893).
The fascinating thing about this book is that it was written for children. Amazingly, you would be hard pressed to find more than 80% of the U.S. adult population who could manage the vocabulary in this book today.
The following is an excerpt from this chapter:
“Peter the Great laid aside the robes of royalty, and entered the East India dockyard at Amsterdam, in disguise, to learn…(read the rest here)“
Today I read the chapter “PRINCIPLE” from William Thayer’s book, “Gaining Favor with God and Man.”
The attached is a slightly abridged version, but more than worth the time to read. I do find it fascinating that those who are principled will read about being principled, while those who are not absolutely refuse to do so.
You probably do not have the attention span to read this post. Yes, this is from my limited perspective. Most people I meet have been adversely affected by their desire to sit in front of a television and thus affected by the attention span shortening affect it has on it’s viewers. This post would benefit you greatly, but you lack the very skill it references.
I read from one of my favorite books this morning (after my walk…see below) titled, “Gaining Favor with God and Man” by William Thayer. It was originally published in 1893. The following is from what I read this morning and worth the very little time required to read it.
167 pages and a quick read as a story even though it conveys principles. A good read with a unique perspective given to delayed vs. instant gratification. It’s definitely not Christian, but the concepts are not foreign to Christianity. That said, I would hope that many Christians would read it and comprehend the truth that already exists in scripture which supports delayed gratification.
As far as the “forms” that are in the book to help you learn how to be goal oriented and live a life of delayed gratification, they are not much to brag about. I ended up creating my own forms. 
I am so grateful that I got this book from my bookwise site: http://mybookwise.com/sh
Getting the books through it is great, but does not even compare to the extra benefits from their mentoring advice on wealth.
Wow! Impressive book by Tony Jeary. I started reading it around 5pm on Monday and finished it Tuesday afternoon. It’s only about 170 pages. Normally, I would have finished it sooner but I was taking some rather detail notes at the end of each chapter which slowed me down.
This is the first book by Tony that I have read and I am impressed. Not by the grammatical or spelling mistakes in the book, but by the content and life example he presents. In fact, I am glad that the mistakes are there to trip up all those who think life is about looking perfect. They will most likely never get it anyway, so why should they waste their time reading the entire book. Let them be offended early on and put it down.
I have had this book for a couple months, but was put off a bit by the title. I assumed it would be yet another book on “success” that had more to do with the impression of success rather than true success in life…I was wrong. I look forward to consuming more content from Tony.
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