The Quickening

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Lynde Francis. The Quickening

The Quickening

Table of Contents

I

BETHESDA

II

THE CEDARS OF LEBANON

III

OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN

IV

THE NEWER EXODUS

V

THE DABNEYS OF DEER TRACE

VI

BLUE BLOOD AND RED

VII

THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEOUS

VIII

THE BACKSLIDER

IX

THE RACE TO THE SWIFT

X

THE SHADOW OF THE ROCK

XI

THE TRUMPET-CALL

XII

THE IRON IN THE FORGE FIRE

XIII

A SISTER OF CHARITY

XIV

ON JORDAN'S BANK

XV

NOËL

XVI

THE BUBBLE, REPUTATION

XVII

ABSALOM, MY SON!

XVIII

THE AWAKENING

XIX

ISSACHAR

XX

DRY WELLS

XXI

GILGAL

XXII

LOVE

XXIII

TARRED ROPES

XXIV

THE UNDER-DEPTHS

XXV

THE PLOW IN THE FURROW

XXVI

AS WITH A MANTLE

XXVII

SWEPT AND GARNISHED

XXVIII

THE BURDEN OF HABAKKUK

XXIX

AS BRUTES THAT PERISH

XXX

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

XXXI

THE NET OF THE FOWLER

XXXII

WHOSO DIGGETH A PIT

XXXIII

THE WINE-PRESS OF WRATH

XXXIV

THE SMOKE OF THE FURNACE

XXXV

A SOUL IN SHACKLES

XXXVI

FREE AMONG THE DEAD

XXXVII

WHOSE YESTERDAYS LOOK BACKWARD

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Francis Lynde

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Under such conditions Thomas Jefferson was sure to be the child of many prayers on the mother's part; and perhaps of some naturally prideful hopes on Caleb's. When a man touches forty before his firstborn is put into his arms, he is likely to take the event seriously. Martha Gordon would have named her son after the great apostle of her faith, but Caleb asserted himself here and would have a manlier name-father for the boy. So Thomas Jefferson was named, not for an apostle, nor yet for the statesman—save by way of an intermediary. For Caleb's "Thomas Jefferson" was the stout old schoolmaster-warrior, Stonewall Jackson; the soldier iron-master's general while he lived, and his deified hero ever afterward.

When the mother was able to sit up in bed she wrote a letter to her brother Silas, the South Tredegar preacher. On the margin of the paper she tried the name, writing it "Reverend Thomas Jefferson Gordon." It was a rather appalling mouthful, not nearly so euphonious as the name of the apostle would have been. But she comforted herself with the thought that the boy would probably curtail it when he should come to a realizing sense of ownership; and "Reverend" would fit any of the curtailments.

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