By Far Euphrates: A Tale. Deborah Alcock

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066137632

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       Chapter I THE DARK RIVER

       Chapter II FATHER AND SON

       Chapter III FIRST IMPRESSIONS

       Chapter IV A NEW LIFE

       Chapter V BARON MUGGURDITCH THOMASSIAN

       Chapter VI ROSES AND BATH TOWELS

       Chapter VII GATHERING STORMS

       Chapter VIII A PROPOSAL

       Chapter IX PEACE AND STRIFE

       Chapter X AN ARMENIAN WEDDING

       Chapter XI AN ADVENTUROUS RIDE

       Chapter XII THE USE OF A REVOLVER

       Chapter XIII WHAT PASTOR STEPANIAN THOUGHT

       Chapter XIV A MODERN THERMOPYLÆ

       Chapter XV DARK HOURS

       Chapter XVI "THE DARK RIVER TURNS TO LIGHT"

       Chapter XVII A GREAT CRIME

       Chapter XVIII EVIL TIDINGS

       Chapter XIX A GREAT CRIME CONSUMMATED

       Chapter XX BY ABRAHAM'S POOL, AND ELSEWHERE

       Chapter XXI "GOD SATISFIED AND EARTH UNDONE"

       Chapter XXII GIVEN BACK FROM THE DEAD

       Chapter XXIII BETROTHAL

       Chapter XXIV UNDER THE FLAG OF ENGLAND

       Chapter XXV AT HOME

       Chapter XXVI A SERMON

       APPENDIX

PREFACE

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      Many a tale of blood and tears has come to us of late from far Euphrates, and from the regions round about. It is not so much the aim of the following pages to tell these over again as to show the light that, even there, shines through the darkness. "I do set My bow in the cloud" is true of the densest, most awful cloud of human misery. As in the early ages of Christianity, "what little child, what tender woman" was there

      "Who did not clasp the cross with a light laugh,

      Or wrap the burning robe round, thanking God"?

      As in later times, of no less fervent faith, "men took each other's hands and walked into the fire, and women sang a song of triumph while the gravedigger was shovelling the earth over their living faces," so now, in our own days, there still walks in the furnace, with His faithful servants, "One like unto the Son of God."

      Every instance of faith or heroism given in these pages is not only true in itself, but typical of a hundred others. The tale is told, however feebly and inadequately, to strengthen our own faith and quicken our own love. It is told also to stir our own hearts to help and save the remnant that is left. The past is past, and we cannot change it now; but we CAN still save from death, or from fates worse than death, the children of Christian parents, who are helpless and desolate orphans because their parents were Christians, and true to the Faith they professed and the Name they loved.

      D. ALCOCK.

Chapter I THE DARK RIVER

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      "A thousand streams of lovelier flow

      Bathed his own native land."

      The Eastern sun was near its setting. Everywhere beneath its beams stretched out a vast, dreary campaign—pale yellowish brown—with low rolling hills, bare of vegetation. There was scarcely anything upon which the eye of man could rest with interest or satisfaction, except one little clump of plane trees, beside which a party of travellers had spread their tents. They had spent the day in repose, for they intended to spend the night in travelling; since, although summer was past and autumn had come, the heat was still great.

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