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Title: The Seeker

Author: Harry Leon Wilson

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THE SEEKER

by

HARRY LEON WILSON

Author of _The Spenders_
_The Lions of the Lord,_ etc.

Illustrated by Rose Cecil O'Neill

New York
Doubleday, Page & Company

1904

[Illustration: "My dear, Bernal is saying good-bye!"]

TO

MY FRIEND

WILLIAM CURTIS GIBSON

"Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one
vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?"--Holy Writ.

"John and Peter and Robert and Paul--
God, in His wisdom, created them all.
John was a statesman and Peter a slave,
Robert a preacher and Paul was a knave.
Evil or good, as the case might be,
White or colored, or bond or free,
John and Peter and Robert and Paul--
God, in His wisdom, created them all."

The Chemistry of Character.

[Illustration]

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE--The Age Of Fable

CHAPTER

I. How the Christmas Saint was Proved

II. An Old Man Faces Two Ways

III. The Cult of the Candy Cane

IV. The Big House of Portents

V. The Life of Crime Is Appraised and Chosen

VI. The Garden of Truth and the Perfect Father

VII. The Superlative Cousin Bill J.

VIII. Searching the Scriptures

IX. On Surviving the Idols We Build

X. The Passing of the Gratcher; and Another

XI. The Strong Person's Narrative

XII. A New Theory of a Certain Wicked Man

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