The Following of the Star: A Romance

The Following of the Star: A Romance
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Barclay Florence Louisa. The Following of the Star: A Romance

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CHAPTER I. THE STILL WATERS OF BRAMBLEDENE

CHAPTER II. THE LADY OF MYSTERY

CHAPTER III. DAVID STIRS THE STILL WATERS

CHAPTER IV. DIANA RIVERS, OF RIVERSCOURT

CHAPTER V. THE NOISELESS NAPIER

CHAPTER VI. DAVID MAKES FRIENDS WITH "CHAPPIE"

CHAPTER VII. THE TOUCH OF POWER

CHAPTER VIII. THE TEST OF THE TRUE HERALD

CHAPTER IX. Uncle Falcon's Will

CHAPTER X. DIANA'S HIGH FENCE

CHAPTER XI. THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT

CHAPTER XII. SUSPENSE

CHAPTER XIII. DAVID'S DECISION

CHAPTER XIV. THE EVE OF EPIPHANY

CHAPTER XV. THE CODICIL

CHAPTER XVI. IN OLD ST. BOTOLPH'S

CHAPTER XVII. DIANA'S READJUSTMENT

CHAPTER XVIII. DAVID'S NUNC DIMITTIS

CHAPTER XIX. DAVID STUDIES THE SCENERY

CHAPTER XX. WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE COMPANY

CHAPTER XXI "ALL ASHORE!"

CHAPTER XXII. DIANA WINS

CHAPTER XXIII. UNCLE FALCON WINS

FRANKINCENSE

CHAPTER XXIV. THE HIDDEN LEAVEN

CHAPTER XXV. THE PROPERTY OF THE CROWN

CHAPTER XXVI. A PILGRIMAGE

CHAPTER XXVII. A QUESTION OF CONSCIENCE

CHAPTER XXVIII. DAVID'S PRONOUNCEMENT

CHAPTER XXIX. WHAT DAVID WONDERED

CHAPTER XXX. RESURGAM

CHAPTER XXXI "I CAN STAND ALONE"

CHAPTER XXXII. THE BLOW FALLS

CHAPTER XXXIII. REQUIESCAT IN PACE

MYRRH

CHAPTER XXXIV. IN THE HOSPITAL OF THE HOLY STAR

CHAPTER XXXV. THE LETTER COMES

CHAPTER XXXVI. DIANA LEARNS THE TRUTH

CHAPTER XXXVII "GOOD-NIGHT, DAVID"

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE BUNDLE OF MYRRH

CHAPTER XXXIX. HOME, BY ANOTHER WAY

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David Rivers closed his Bible suddenly, slipped it into the inner pocket of his coat, and, leaning back in his armchair, relaxed the tension at which he had been sitting while he mentally put his thoughts into terse and forcible phraseology.

His evening sermon was ready. The final sentence had silently thrilled into the quiet study, in the very words in which it would presently resound through the half-empty little village church; and David felt as did the young David of old, when he had paused at the brook and chosen five smooth stones for his sling, on his way to meet the mighty champion of the Philistines. David now felt ready to go forward and fight the Goliath of apathy and inattention; the life-long habit of not listening to the voice of the preacher, or giving any heed to the message he brought.

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Encouraged by this unusual sign of attention, David Rivers leaned over the pulpit and tried to drive into one mind, at least, a thought which had been a discovery to himself the evening before, and was beginning to mean much to him, as every Spirit-given new light on a well-known theme always must mean to the earnest Bible student.

"The name Emmanuel," he said, "so freely used in our church decorations at this season, occurs three times only in the Bible; twice in the Old Testament, once in the New; and the New merely quotes the more important of the two passages in the Old.

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