The Lost Word - A Christmas Legend of Long Ago

by Henry van Dyke

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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. THE POVERTY OF HERMAS
  2. II  A CHRISTMAS LOSS
  3. III  PARTING, BUT NO FAREWELL
  4. IV  LOVE IN SEARCH OF A WORD
  5. 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.