Mark Twain
Samuel L. Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Born in 1835, he was raised in Missouri and worked in his early twenties as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain died of a heart attack in 1910.
— From January 2013
The Dog-Eared Page
The War Prayer
“God’s servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two — one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of Him who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken.
January 2013
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