Mountains of Spices [Paperback]

Hannah Hurnard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 20, 1983

An allegory of the nine spices mentioned in Song of Solomon compared with the nine fruits of the Spirit.

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Living Books (June 20, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0842346112
• ISBN-13: 978-0842346115
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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66 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sequel to Hind's Feet On High Places!!!, June 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mountains of Spices (Paperback)

This sequel to Hind's Feet On High Places tells the story of how Grace and Glory (formally Much-Afraid)and her friends lead many of her enemies to follow the Chief Shepherd. Not all decide to follow, but those who do so find a release from their old, sinful self and receive a new nature from the Shepherd (like how Grace and Glory did). How wonderful to see the Shepherd give new names to replace their old ones. See how the Shepherd is able to develop Hind's Feet for those who cannot physically journey with Him to the High Places. Learn also about the nature of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. I read this book with the same inner joy and excitement when I read Hind's Feet. Before I read this book, I was hoping for a sequel to Hind's Feet when God answered my prayer. This books shows that when we surrender our fruits of the flesh to God, He will replace it with His own wonderful fruits of the Spirit. When we live a life loving the Lord, it will draw people to the Saviour and God can make us forgive and love our enemies.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lives up to the high standards of "Hinds Feet", August 31, 1999

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Sarah (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mountains of Spices (Paperback)

This sequel to "Hinds Feet" takes you to the next level. It shows how even though we enter our faith "Much Afraid" our "Grace and Glory" come from reaching out and touching the lives of family and friends in the name of the Lord, no matter how impossible it may seem.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fruits of the Spirit part is excellent, November 29, 2006

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Emily Jamison "Emily" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mountains of Spices (Paperback)

Half of this book is a direct sequel to Hinds Feet on High Places - it is told in story format, with the same characters as that book. I like it very much. However my favorite part by far is the corresponding chapters on the fruits of the Spirit, and I often go back and read them. In each one the King takes Grace and Glory to a new mountain of a ring of nine, each representing a different fruit of the Spirit & teaching it by comparison with spices listed in Song of Songs (or someplace). She describes how that plant corresponds to that Spirit, and He teaches her about it. Then she goes down into the Valley for the days work. He teacher her a song for each one. One of my favorites is something like this:

Love must give and give and give
Love must die or share
Only then can true love live
Fruitful everywhere.
(from Gentleness I think, also the following:)
'The King and Grace and Glory came, just before sunrise, to the Mountain of Calamus, where the spices of gentleness were cultivated...she stood still in delighted surprise, for stretching before her were fields of slender reeds, swaying in the breeze and tossing lightly in rhythmical motion like waves on a slightly rolling sea...

He pointed out to her the exquisite grace and lovely, unresisting meekness with which they bowed themselves before the wind, sometimes right to the ground, only to sweep upward again without effort when the wind had passed over them...

'They know how to be abased and how to be exalted' ..she realized that the lovely fragrance that exuded from them and which men call gentleness, sympathy and loving understanding was developed by the daily practice of bending submissively to life's difficult circumstances without bitterness, resent or self-pity.'

etc. etc. etc. It's really quite good.
I've had this book for fifteen years and still go back and read the fruits of the spirit parts regularly (as God seems to be teaching me about that fruit!) It was originally published in 1977 - not many books stay in print for thirty years.