Oh, For a Home of Rest!

About this film

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Oh, For a Home of Rest! by Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 15, 2017. Read in English by Algy Pug; Bev J Stevens; Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; argonant; Eva Davis; Jason in Panama; Lee Ann Howlett; Matthew Datcher; Nick J. Gold; Peter Thomlinson; Scotty Smith; Tomas Peter; tovarisch and The Voice before the Void. Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney was a Quaker minister who, when her husband Joseph John Gurney died in 1847, continued the labours of a traveling minister. She corresponded with Abraham Lincoln, who was found to have a two year old letter from Eliza, carefully “treasured up” by him in his breast pocket when assassinated. ( David Lawrence) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (11MB)

Directors & creators

Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; literature; philosophy; religious; rest

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