This slim volume is an interpretation of the Shepherd Psalm as told by a man whose home was among the Syrian shepherds. The author writes that it was told to him by a guest straight from David's land as they sat together one night over fragrant cups of tea.

    This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE MORMON CONCEPTION OF GOD Thou shalt have no other God before me.?Jehovah. Let God be true, even though it make every man a liar.? Paul. THE virility of religion, as an ethical modifier of the human family, lies, at the last analysis, in its conception of God. Faith dynamic enough to make for the betterment of the race, must be centred in a Being that can be both loved and feared. The first requisite, therefore, is that He be a Reality, not a metaphysical abstraction; and the second, that He be a sympathetic Reality. In the words of Paul, we must first believe that He is, and next that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. In that word rewarder lie summed up the foremost qualities which a live faith requires in its Divine Source. There must be felt, first of all, a relationship equivalent to that of parent and child, with all the best qualities which our own lives have taught us to associate with father and mother; mercy, forgiveness, daily guidance, anxiety, protection, a haven of refuge on earth, and ultimately an eternal home. And we must, moreover, feel that we can safely multiply these parent-qualities as many times in effectiveness, as we conceive God to be greater than man. On the other hand, as a salutary restrainer of evil tendencies, we must feel God to be the omnipotent creator and preserver of all things; whose omniscient eye beholds even our secret thoughts, and whose omnipresent power and spirit pervade to shape towards righteousness?or else to nullify ?all the aspirations and deeds of men. Along with this conception of God, the man whose faith is to help remove mountains (of sin) must have a conception of mankind equally definite and clear. He must feel himself categorically a child of God; differing, indeed, in degree ..

    With that much cash, Grinnell already was a potential disturber of finance. With much more he could be infinitely worse-to the public and to the great moneyed interests. -from The Golden Flood This financial mystery novels revolves around an enigmatic young man who deposits ever-increasing sums of gold bars into a large bank, much to the bank president's bemused chagrin. A century after its original publication in 1905, this remains must reading for those looking for insight into the driving forces of modern economies, and the nature of the people who influence it. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Lefevre's The Plunderers. American journalist EDWIN LEFEVRE (1871-1943) also authored the short fiction collected in Wall Street Stories (1901), the novel Sampson Rock of Wall Street (1906), and the based-on-fact Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923).

    Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... being naturally sensuous or immoral, they could not seriously affect my habits or my moral nature. They accompanied me to church, to concerts, to theaters, seemingly relishing the aural magnetisms of others, something as we inhale the fragrance of flowers. "You have seen the larger boy kick the smaller one, the master beat the servant to make him obedient; so they tormented me, demanding the right to control me physically and psychologically. They affected my eyesight, throwing a mist-like substance about me, which at times would be almost suffocating and blinding. "Christian Scientists, mental scientists, suggestive practitioners, could be of no benefit to me. Their efforts were failures. "Antagonizing my tormentors by reasonings, by suggestions, by moral cleanliness, and by making magnetic passes over my head, and changing environments, I kept them in a measure from throwing their hypnotic influence over me; but they went far enough to induce terrible mental sufferings and torturing pains. "In this sad state of mind I was not entirely alone. With me it was a battle for individuality, for health, and for sanity. To be sure, there were good sympathizing guardian spirits, anxious to assist and protect me; but they had not that insiduous, earthly, hypnotic power that these deceptive, selfish demons had. These, as I proved, had low, sinister motives. Their power was physical and hypnotic. An Irish or an Italian railway laborer has far more physical power over pick and spade than the conductor or division superintendent. Hypnotic power is dangerous unless guided by goodness and wisdom. Here is where these obsessing spirits have a great advantage, and especially so, where we poor mortals have to breathe vice-impregnated air, submit to the filthy, ...

    1 of 2 Some years ago, when visiting Celle in connection with a book I was writing on Sophie Dorothea, The Love of an Uncrowned Queen, I found, in an unfrequented garden outside the town, a grey marble monument of unusual beauty. Around the base ran an inscription to the effect that it was erected in loving memory of Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, who died at Celle in 1775, at the age of twenty-three years. To this may be traced the origin of this book, for until I saw the monument I had not heard of this English Princess - a sister of George III. The only excuse to be offered for this ignorance is that it is shared by the great majority of Englishmen. For though the romantic story of Caroline Matilda is known to every Dane - she is the Mary Stuart of Danish history - her name is almost forgotten in the land of her birth, and this despite the fact that little more than a century ago her imprisonment nearly led to a war between England and Denmark. Inquiry soon revealed the full measure of my ignorance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.