A.L.O.E. Short Stories

The Beautiful Villa by A.L.O.E. The Old Pauper by A.L.O.E. The Gypsies by A.L.O.E. The Sailor's Resolve by A.L.O.E. Courage and Candor by A.L.O.E. False Friends by A.L.O.E. The Green Velvet Dress by A.L.O.E. The Great Plague by A.L.O.E. Clouds and Sunshine by A.L.O.E. Forbidden Ground by A.L.O.E. The Mother's Return by A.L.O.E. The Prisoner Released by A.L.O.E. The Two Sons by A.L.O.E. Only a Little by A.L.O.E. The Olive Branch by A.L.O.E. The Message of Hope by A.L.O.E. The Hymn My Mother Taught Me by A.L.O.E. Good for Evil by A.L.O.E. A Friend in Need by A.L.O.E. Every Cloud...

“The Beautiful Villa” on Proverbs 31:30, is written by Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) is from “Precepts in Practice,” and is about inner beauty. ------------------------------------------------------ “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”—Proverbs 31:30.Jessy Warner stood before a pier-glass, gazing on the image reflected in it with silent delight. And truly the image was a very pretty one, though perhaps not all the world would have admired it as much as the vain young lady. She had twined a wreath of flowers in her luxuriant tresses, and smoothed every ringlet till...

“The Old Pauper” on Proverbs 19:3, is written by Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) is from “Precepts in Practice,” and is about the consequences of a selfish life. ------------------------------------------------------- “The foolishness of man perverteth his way; and his heart fretteth against the Lord.”—Proverbs 19:3.“It is very very hard in one’s old age to be driven to poverty, to be neglected by one’s friends, forsaken by one’s children,—left to wear out a weary life in a hateful place like this!”Such were the words of a miserable old man, who, bedridden and helpless, was pouring out his complaint to a humane visitor at the...

“The Gypsies” on Proverbs 24:11, 12, is written by Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) is from “Precepts in Practice,” and is about reaching out to the less fortunate. ---------------------------------------------------- “If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it; and he that keepeth thy soul, doth he not know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?”—Proverbs 24:11, 12.Alie sat on the threshold of her home on a bright morning...

“The Sailor’s Resolve” on Proverbs 29:22, is written by Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) is from “Precepts in Practice,” and is about anger. ----------------------------------------- “An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.”—Proverbs 29:22.The old sailor Jonas sat before the fire with his pipe in his mouth, looking steadfastly into the glowing coals. Not that, following a favorite practice of his little niece, he was making out red-hot castles and flaming buildings in the grate, or that his thoughts were in any way connected with the embers: he was doing what it would be well if we...