The golden key : stories of deliverance / by Henry Van Dyke. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, (c)1926.Description: viii, 347 pages, 6. leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS3117.V217.G653 1926
  • PS3117
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Contents:
A cast-off son -- The sweet influence of the Pleiades -- A queen's deliverance -- The devil at sea -- A wilfil Andromeda -- A sunflower in the west -- A garden enclosed -- A blind lamplighter -- A garment of praise -- The silver doctor -- "The head that wears a crown."
Scope and content: "Here are twelve stories that I have known for some time but never could find leisure to write. Now release from all sorts of official duty has set me free to work at whatever I like. As they are brought together it appears that these are all stories of deliverance from some kind of peril or perplexity or bondage. The book could have the motto: 'There is always a way out.' But this might be too sweeping - misleading to light readers who look a for 'happy ending' in tune with their own desires. Life is not made that way. The doors of deliverance are often different from what we expected. Sometimes one that looks dark leads to liberty. However that may be, I believe that in all God's world there is no hopeless imprisonment not endless torment. So instead of a motto I have chosen for this book a symbol: The Golden Key. Take it and use it like you will".
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Withdrawn G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN Non-fiction PS3117 .G65 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 31923001665575

"Reprinted from the 1926 edition"--Title page verso.

To Avernus and out -- A cast-off son -- The sweet influence of the Pleiades -- A queen's deliverance -- The devil at sea -- A wilfil Andromeda -- A sunflower in the west -- A garden enclosed -- A blind lamplighter -- A garment of praise -- The silver doctor -- "The head that wears a crown."

"Here are twelve stories that I have known for some time but never could find leisure to write. Now release from all sorts of official duty has set me free to work at whatever I like. As they are brought together it appears that these are all stories of deliverance from some kind of peril or perplexity or bondage. The book could have the motto: 'There is always a way out.' But this might be too sweeping - misleading to light readers who look a for 'happy ending' in tune with their own desires. Life is not made that way. The doors of deliverance are often different from what we expected. Sometimes one that looks dark leads to liberty. However that may be, I believe that in all God's world there is no hopeless imprisonment not endless torment. So instead of a motto I have chosen for this book a symbol: The Golden Key. Take it and use it like you will".

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