Like the Israelites, it’s often easy to forget about God when things are going smoothly and we are healthy, prosperous, and satisfied. Yet all good things come from His hand and when we deny Him we reject the source of our abundance. By turning to Him daily, in good times and bad, He will be ever-faithful to keep us from the self-made snares of our sinful natures.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, the daughter of the famous preacher Lyman Beecher, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1812. Her father became President of Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1832; and in 1833 she was married to Calvin E. Stowe, a professor in the seminary. Her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was first published in 1852 as a serial in the National Era magazine and later in book form, is one of the most widely known and historic volumes in the entire range of American literature.