Grateful Peter's new year's gift by Ruth Lamb
Grateful Peter's new year's gift by Ruth Lamb is a children's moral tale written in the late 19th century. The book follows a poor street boy whose misfortune on New Year’s Eve draws him into the care of kind adults and, through gentle Christian teaching, sets him on a new path; its likely topic is gratitude, providence, and the transforming power of faith and kindness. Peter Grant, a twelve-year-old baked-potato seller living
with his guardian, old Sally, is knocked down by a cab on New Year’s Eve and taken to the hospital by Mr. Russell. There, a nurse tends him, and Dr. Turner—who once urged Peter to keep the Sabbath—reappears, explaining his earlier absence. Mr. Russell’s daughter, Alice, reads Peter “the old, old story” of Jesus, and the boy embraces the gospel message with wonder and gratitude. After recovery and a stay at a convalescent home, Sally is settled in a clean cottage, and Peter is placed in a good school, then apprenticed to a grocer, where hard work and prayer help him prosper. Years later, now a successful tradesman, he anonymously donates a large sum to expand the hospital that once sheltered him—his heartfelt New Year’s gift—affirming the book’s theme of thankful generosity born from received mercy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
For an overview of the different reading options, see our Reading Guide
| Reading Options | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78109.html.images | 86 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78109.epub3.images | 1.7 MB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78109.epub.images | 1.7 MB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78109.epub.noimages | 98 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78109.kf8.images | 1.7 MB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78109.kindle.images | 1.7 MB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78109.txt.utf-8 | 75 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/78109/pg78109-h.zip | 2.0 MB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Lamb, Ruth, 1829-1916 |
|---|---|
| Title | Grateful Peter's new year's gift |
| Original Publication | London: The Religious Tract Society, 1888. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Christian life -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Orphans -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Kindness -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Poverty -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Charity -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Almshouses -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78109 |
| Release Date | Mar 4, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 4859 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |