The Lost Word - A Christmas Legend of Long Ago

The Lost Word: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago is a collection of Christmas stories written  by Henry van Dyke. The stories in this collection are:

1. I  THE POVERTY OF HERMAS
2. II  A CHRISTMAS LOSS
3. III  PARTING, BUT NO FAREWELL
4. IV  LOVE IN SEARCH OF A WORD
5. V  RICHES WITHOUT REST
6. VI  GREAT FEAR AND RECOVERED JOY

Little group of young men were standing in a street of Antioch, in the dusk of early morning, fifteen hundred years ago. It was a class of candidates who had nearly finished their two years of training for the Christian church. They had come to call their fellow-student Hermas from his lodging.