The Redemption of David Corson
Book Description
THE REDEMPTION OF DAVID CORSON CHAPTER I. THIS OTHER EDEN "This other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by nature." -Richard II. Hidden away in this worn and care-encumbered world, scarred with its frequent traces of a primeval curse, are spots so quiet and beautiful as to make the fall of man seem incredible, and awaken in the breast of the weary traveler who comes suddenly upon them, a va...
MoreTHE REDEMPTION OF DAVID CORSON CHAPTER I. THIS OTHER EDEN "This other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by nature." -Richard II. Hidden away in this worn and care-encumbered world, scarred with its frequent traces of a primeval curse, are spots so quiet and beautiful as to make the fall of man seem incredible, and awaken in the breast of the weary traveler who comes suddenly upon them, a vague and dear delusion that he has stumbled into Paradise. Such an Eden existed in the extreme western part of Ohio in the spring of eighteen hundred and forty-nine. It was a valley surrounded by wooded hills and threaded by a noisy brook which hastily made its way, as if upon some errand of immense importance., down to the big Miami not many miles distant. A road cut through a vast and solemn forest led into the valley, and entering as if by a corridor and through the open portal of a temple, the traveler saw a white farm-house l'eMl-ing beneath a mlghty hackberry t
Table of Contents
Contents; I; This Other Eden I; n; And Satan Came Also 17; Ill; The Egyptians 24-; IV; The Woman 41; v; The Light That Lies 52; VI; The Trail of the Serpent 62-; VII; The Chance Word 74; VIII; A Broken Reed h; IX; Where Paths Converge 93; x; A Poisoned Spring 101; XI; The Flesh and the Devil 119; The Moth and the FWne 130; XIII; Found Wanting 1408; XIV; Turned Tempter 167; XV; The Snare of the Fowler 176; XVI; The Derelicta 188; XVII; The Shadow of Dbth zos; XVIII; A Fugitive and a Vagabond uS; XIX; Alienation ~~,; XX; The Inevitable Hour '32; XXI; A Signal in the Night :t46; XXII; Heart Hunger ~S4; XXIII; Where I Might Find Him ~59; XXIV; Safe Haven s6t; xxv; The Little Lad 271; XXVI; Out of the Shadow 288; XXVII; If Thine Enemy Hunger 304; XXVIlL; A Man Crossed With Adversity 307; XXIX; As a Tale That is Told 315; XXX; Out of the Jaw, of Death 329; XXXI; The Great Refusal 345; XXXII; The End of Exile 353; XXXIII; A Self-Imposed Expiati
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