THE BELIEVING YEARS

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO
SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO

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THE BELIEVING YEARS

BY

EDMUND LESTER PEARSON

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1911

All rights reserved

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Copyright, 1910,

By THE OUTLOOK COMPANY.

Copyright, 1911,

By THE OUTLOOK COMPANY.

Copyright, 1911,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1911.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

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To

EDMUND CARLTON PEARSON

(1841-1897)

"E'en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth,
In simpleness and gentleness and honor and clean mirth."

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NOTE

A number of the incidents described inthis book have been used in a series ofstories published in The Outlook. To TheOutlook Company my thanks are duefor their courteous permission to retellthese stories in an altered form.

E. L. P.

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