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The Grass Never Grew Greener: The Life and Labour of George L. Shivas (1884-1963)
By: George Leith Shivas
Mr. George L. Shivas was an evangelist who was well-known among Christians gathered unto the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was converted on April 15, 1906, while attending the Toronto Conference. His exercise in the things of God, and his desire to proclaim the Gospel. led him to be commended to the work of the Lord from the Dominion Street assembly, Orillia , Ontario, in 1911.
His labours were chiefly in Northern Ontario, and were a blend of helping on the farm where he was staying in the morning, visiting in the afternoon, and preaching the Gospel at night.
He loved to tell how God saved his soul, and almost every message contained the familiar words:
“The grass never grew greener,”
And the birds never sang sweeter,
And the sun never shone brighter,
Than it did that happy Monday Afternoon.”
He had an unusual gift for arranging his messages in a concise manner that made them “stick” in one’s memory, and is still the most-quoted of our preaching brethren. He kept a diary almost every year after he was saved, and this book is based on those diaries, almost illegibly written in a fine hand in early years, to a broad flowing hand in later years.
There are so many assemblies, and fellow labourers, and fellow believers named in the diaries, that they go beyond simply a record of one man’s work. They are a genuine history of the blessing of the Lord in Northern Ontario, and elsewhere, over the first six decades of the twentieth century.
ISBN-13: 9780969671503
ISBN: 0969671504
Size: 5.5 x 8.5″
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Weight:0.5 lbs
Author: Shivas, George L.
Editor: Regis, Murray D.
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