By

Francis Lynde
Author of
The Grafters,
The Master of Appleby,
etc., etc.

With illustrations
by E.M.  Ashe

Indianapolis
the Bobbs-Merrill company
publishers

Copyright 1906
Francis Lynde

March

Press of
BRAUNWORTH & Co. 
Bookbinders and Printers
Brooklyn, N.Y.

To My Mother

CHAPTER PAGE

  I Bethesda 1

  II The Cedars of Lebanon 11

  III Of the Fathers Upon the Children 21

  IV The Newer Exodus 25

  V The Dabneys of Deer Trace 32

  VI Blue Blood and Red 44

  VII The Prayer of the Righteous 57

  VIII The Backslider 65

  IX The Race to the Swift 75

  X The Shadow of the Rock 90

  XI The Trumpet-Call 99

  XII The Iron in the Forge Fire 107

  XIII A Sister of Charity 116

  XIV On Jordan’s Bank 124

  XV Noel 140

  XVI The Bubble, Reputation 145

  XVII Absalom, My Son! 160

  XVIII The Awakening 172

  XIX Issachar 188

  XX Dry Wells 201

  XXI Gilgal 216

  XXII Love 226

  XXIII Tarred Ropes 242

  XXIV The Under-Depths 255

  XXV The Plow in the Furrow 265

  XXVI As With a Mantle 279

  XXVII Swept and Garnished 294

  XXVIII The Burden of Habakkuk 306

  XXIX As Brutes That Perish 319

  XXX Through a Glass Darkly 331

  XXXI The Net of the Fowler 338

  XXXII Whoso Diggeth a Pit 347

  XXXIII The Wine-Press of Wrath 357

  XXXIV The Smoke of the Furnace 366

  XXXV A Soul in Shackles 378