Covetousness by Lillian Harvey and Edwin Robert Tait

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Covetousness has been termed “The sin very few ever confess.” In fact, that is the subtitle of the book Covetousness, written by Lillian Harvey and published by Harvey Christian Publishers. A few quotes from this book will give you an idea of its main thrust and purpose.
“The sin of the whole world is essentially the sin of Judas—men do not disbelieve their Christ; but they will sell Him.”
—Ruskin
“If money be not thy servant it will become thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth as it may be said to possess him.”—Charcon.
“It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of Heaven, but the fact that the riches have him.”
—David Caird


“Let us make our giving in accordance with our earnings, lest God make our earnings in accordance with our giving.”
—Peter Marshall.
“I love poverty because Jesus Christ loved it. I love wealth because it gives me the means of assisting the wretched.
—Pascal.
“Let me hold lightly things of this earth;
Transient treasures, what are they worth?
Moths can corrupt them, rust can decay,
All their bright beauty fades in a day.
Let me hold lightly temporal things—
I, who am deathless, I, who wear wings!
Let me hold fast, Lord, things of the skies;
Quicken my vision, open my eyes!
Show me Thy riches, glory and grace,
Boundless as time is, endless as space…
Let me hold lightly things that are mine—
Lord, Thou dost give me all that is Thine!”
—Martha Snell Nicholson

Covetousness is now available in Harvey Christian Publishers’ Online Christian Bookstore.

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Hast Thou No Scar?

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Most Christians have heard of Amy Carmichael. As well as being a devoted missionary in India for many years, Amy was also a writer and poet. She writes out of her wealth of experience. In Royal Purposes, a small devotional of thirty-one readings and compiled by Edwin and Lillian Harvey, one of her many poems is included in the reading, “Scarred in Battle.”
Hast thou no scar?


No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?
I hear thee sung as mighty in the land,
I hear them hail thy bright, ascendant star;
Hast thou no scar?

Hast thou no wound:
Yet was I wounded by the archers, spent,
Leaned me against a tree to die, and rent
By ravening beasts that compassed me, I swooned;
Hast thou no wound?

No wound: No scar”
Yet, as the Master, shall the servant be,
And pierced are the feet that follow Me;
But thine are whole; can he have followed far
Who has not wound or scar?

Royal Purposes is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and available in their Online Christian Bookstore.

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Through the Door of Destitution—Royal Purposes

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The first beatitude, “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,” is not exactly the kind of statement one hears on today’s media. To express one’s need, to acknowledge one’s lack—that does not seem the way to inherit anything, let alone a kingdom. Yet these words are Jesus’ words, our Lord and Master, God incarnate, Wisdom Incarnate, and they echo through the ages and knock at the doors of our hearts.


The book, Royal Purposes, compiled by Edwin and Lillian Harvey, is small—sixty-four pages in all, yet it has proved a blessing to many. It encourages all readers to take heart when suffering of any kind knocks at their door, for God has a purpose in suffering which, after all, enables us to more easily become “poor in spirit” and thus inherit the kingdom of heaven. On page thirty-three, in the reading entitled “Through the Door of Destitution,” the authors have included a poem by E. C. Priestley which encourages us all to enter through this “door.”
Only the beggared ask,
Only the weakened cling,
Only the joyless crave
Joy from the living spring.

Only the conquered yield,
Only the humbled pray,
Only the helpless trust
Jesus, the soul’s strong Stay.

Only the weary rest,
Only the seekers find,
Only the souls are blest
Who in the Savior hide.

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Quotable quotes from The Christian’s Daily Challenge.

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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? I have found everything in Christ.
—John Calvin. (p. 92.)
It is easy to appear a Daniel in a country where there are no lions. (p. 141.
We need not make so much effort to defend the Bible as to practice it . p. 199.
To speak well, is to sound like a cymbal, but to do well, is to act like an angel.
—Phillips Brooks. (Ibid.)
Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming, which God has been so good as to fasten with His own hand upon our shoulders.
—F. W. Faber. (p. 218)


Prayer is the key to Heaven; the Spirit helps faith to turn the key.
—T. Watson. (p. 292)
I believe that if you and I were to heed the whispers of our Father, we should not need to many of His thunders.
—J. H. Evans. (p. 315)
Yesterday’s heretics often become today’s saints. (p. 328)
The secret of an unsatisfied life too often is an unsurrendered will.—Hudson Taylor. (p. 342)
Prayer is the touch of an infant—but on the arm of the Almighty.
—Thomas Scott. (p. 346)
The great question is not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you ever can get will be in yourself.
—Horace Bushnell. (p. 372)

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When God Beats Time

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There’s a song that God is writing on the staff for you and me,
And its melody is sweeter than the songs of earth could be;
For the major and the minor of this song of life sublime
Bring us nearer home to Heaven—when God beats time….

There are “holds” and “rests” before us, and to pause it may be hard,
But we find a hidden meaning when we come to God’s retard”;
He alone can give expression, make the song of life sublime,
If we only mind the pauses—when God beats time.

There are chords of minor music that we may not understand,
In this song of life unfolding, written by the Master’s hand;
Yet how patiently He lingers till we catch the glory chime,
And the song is made the sweeter—when God beats time.

When at last the curtain’s lifted, and the choirs of Heaven stand
In the Hallelujah greeting to the happy, blood-washed band,
Then our sharpest “accidental” with the angel notes will rhyme
In the chorus of redemption—when God beats time.
—F. M. Lehman
Used by permission. Copyright property of the Nazarene Publishing House.

The above poem is taken from page 164 of The Christian’s Daily Challenge by E. & F. Harvey and published by Harvey Christian Publishers and available in their Online Christian Bookstore.

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Tribulation Worketh by G. D. Watson

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The book, Tribulation Worketh by G. D. Watson, is unique. It differs from his other books because it is a compilation of his writings on the subject of the blessings of tribulation—what suffering does for the soul. On the cover is a picture of a plowed field indicating that suffering plows the soul and prepares it for God’s sowing and harvesting. This book contains sixteen chapters, each taken from various other of Watson’s writings. It was compiled by Edwin and Lillian Harvey and has proved a blessing to many suffering saints. Pastors have used it in hospital visitation. It has only seventy-eight pages so is easily read. The book is introduced by the following poem:

“O break my heart; but break it as a field
Is by the plow up-broken for the corn;
O break it as the buds, by green leaf sealed,
Are, to unloose the golden blossom, torn;
Love would I offer unto Love’s great Master,
Set free the odor, break the alabaster.

“O break my heart; break it victorious God,
That life’s eternal well may flash abroad;
O let it break as when the captive trees,
Breaking cold bonds, regain their liberties;
And as thought’s sacred grove to life is springing
Be joys, like birds, their hope, Thy victory singing.”

Tribulation Worketh is available in Harvey Christian Publishers’ Online Christian Bookstore.

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Books by G. D. Watson

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“God is our nearest relative.” This is the opening sentence of the book, Our Own God, by G. D. Watson and this is the sentence which met the eyes of Edwin Harvey as he thumbed through this book in a friend’s home in Northern Ireland, many years ago. Edwin, co-author of Kneeling We Triumph, the They Knew Their God series, and many other books published by Harvey Christian Publishers, became immediately enthralled and immediately proceeded to read Our Own God through seven times consecutively.

The effect of this book upon him was astounding. To put it in his own words: “I felt like going into the street and buttonholing the nearest passerby and exclaiming: ‘Do you know what a wonderful God we have?’ It is little wonder that soon Our Own God was added to the list of books published by M. O. V. E. Press, a forerunner of Harvey Christian Publishers. Soon other books by Watson followed in its wake: Pure Gold, Pot of Oil, Soul Food, Steps to the Throne, White Robes, Bridehood Saints, and God’s First Words. All of these are excellent book, but to Edwin Harvey and many other Watson readers, Our Own God remained a favorite.
All of the above books with the exception of God’s First Words are available in Harvey Christian Publishers’ Online Christian Bookstore.

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Books other than those written by Edwin and Lillian Harvey

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Harvey Christian Publishers do publish other books besides those written by Edwin and Lillian Harvey. Most of these are reprints such as the books by G. D. Watson, George Bowen, and Gerhardt Tersteegen. Then we do have several books written by contemporaries of the Harveys. These include a book by Emil Kremer, Eyes Opened, a book by a Welsh evangelist, Robert Cox called Elisha, and several by John Wright Follette whose most well known is Broken Bread. Other books include Missing the Way by Patricia St. John, well known British children’s author, several autobiographies–Striking Incidents by Breeden, Amanda Smith, and William Carvosso. Blessing the Church? by Clifford Hill, and the Letters of John Fletcher.
All these and more can be found on our Online Christian Bookstore, www.harveycp.com.

Nuggets From Ephesians

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Nuggets From Ephesians.
Edwin and Lillian Harvey, joint authors of many books published by Harvey Christian Publishers, are now in their Heavenly Rest. They leave behind a priceless legacy in their books. Edwin passed away in 1983 and several years prior to Lillian’s decease in 2008, she was incapable of continuing her writing and compiling. However, some old friends and former co-workers worked painstakingly together and culled material on the book of Ephesians from the Harvey files which, over the years, had been the source of most of their books. Culling, sorting, editing–the work was enormous and daunting but eventually Nuggets from Ephesians, Volumes One and Two, were completed. They are now available on Harvey Christian Publishers’ Online Bookstore.

Novels Published by Harvey Christian Publishers

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Five novels have been published by Harvey Christian Publishers who generally specialize in devotional books and biographies of past saints. Some of our readers do not agree with novel reading and there is certainly a danger when Christians read fiction to the exclusion of more substantive books. However, I think most would agree that fiction has played an important part in the history of our civilization and has done much to influence the moral tone of our nation both positively and negatively.


“The King’s Diamond” was the first novel to be published by Harvey Christian Publishers and was written by my mother, Lillian G. Harvey. I remember how the book began. It was a hot sultry day in the middle of the summer vacation. I was thirteen and bored so Mother told me to get out my pen and write what she would dictate. In the next half hour, I had written the opening pages of what would become “The King’s Diamond,” in which a rich diamond merchant from South Africa sets out on a search for a human diamond which he is skeptical he will never find. He is mistaken, however, and does eventually find a young woman who passes all the tests he usually puts to diamonds. But there is one snag–she is a Christian. He is not. And so his newly discovered gem seems totally out of reach.
Years later, I followed in my mother’s steps and in 2005 penned my first novel, “The Velvet Curtain.” This was succeeded by two others in the Velvet Curtain Series and then came the novel “Love me and let me go.” All these five novels may be purchased in Harvey Christian Publisher’s Online Bookstore.

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