General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Megeath Stationery Co. Subjects: Christian fiction Fiction / Religious Fiction / Christian / General Fiction / Christian / Historical Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. THAT STAR. That night was an anxious one at the Weston’s, for Mont had never been so sick in all his life. The attack proved to be typhoid fever, and in his delirium the one thing which seemed to distress him was the subject of religion. In his ravings the name of Horace Marsden was often spoken, and at last the doctor suggested that this young man’s presence might quiet the sufferer. As soon as he appeared, however, Mont became almost wild, seeming to imagine that he had come to torment rather than to comfort. Yes, shrieked the invalid, you have known me all these years yet you have never once spoken to me of my soul’s salvation, though you occupy a high position in the Christian Endeavor Society, and now, at the eleventh hour, when it is too late, you come here to make my last days more miserable than they already are. Oh, it is too bad – too bad! and thoroughly exhausted the young man sank back among the pillows, and sobbed like a child. At the very beginning of this outbreak, Horace, scarcely less pale than his friend, began backing toward the door, out of which he slipped almost unnoticed, a sadder and a wiser man. Why had he not taken Gertie’s advice? Why, oh, why, had he not plead with Mont, resting on the promises of God, and trusting His Holy Spirit to put into his mouth words, which even this cynical young friend must have respected, even though he did not believe? As he mused thus along his homeward way, he vowed…
