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    Alter Ego A Tale
    Alter Ego A Tale
    Alter Ego A Tale
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    Alter Ego A Tale

    By W. W. (William Wesley) Walker

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Alter Ego A Tale - W. W. (William Wesley) Walker

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alter Ego, by W. W. Walker

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: Alter Ego

      A Tale

      Author: W. W. Walker

      Release Date: October 12, 2011 [EBook #37731]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALTER EGO ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      Alter Ego

      A TALE

      by Rev. W. W. Walker

      Author of By Northern Lakes, Sabre Thrusts at Freethought,

      Plain Talks on Health and Morals, Part II,

      and Occident and Orient.

      AUTHOR'S EDITION

      TORONTO

      WILLIAM BRIGGS

      1907

      Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the

      year one thousand nine hundred and seven, by WILLIAM

      WESLEY WALKER, at the Department of Agriculture

      To

      Lydia Kirby Walker

      the granddaughter of a cultured Frenchman

      and the faithful partner of my joys

      and sorrows, this volume

      is affectionately

      dedicated.

      The author is indebted to the great national newspapers of Canada and the United States, the Toronto Globe and Collier's Weekly, for some facts from the former and some figures from the latter in rounding up the historical part of the story as relating to the conflict in the Far East.

      PREFACE

      To men who teach and write the oft-recurring question comes, How can we so influence others in heart and intellect as to help them reach a loftier plane of thought and action? As every life has its Gethsemane of sorrow and tragedy, so every life has its morning star of hope and its mainspring of faith.

      Our salvation, then, and the lifting up and saving of others is the exercise of that vital principle which has its incarnation in hope. The use of this still further causes the mountains of difficulty that loom portentous in our pathway and tower to the heavens to crumble into mole-hills.

      The soul is made optimistic and the life beautified by its possession, while the ear is brought, spiritually speaking, within range of the victorious shout, More than conquerors! and the new song, the song of Moses and the Lamb.

      CONTENTS

      ALTER EGO

      CHAPTER I.

      THE APPOINTMENT.

      In the uplands of Canada was an attractive church with a spire that pointed longing souls to the skies, and the pastor of which had finished his course with joy and was now joining in the hallelujah choruses of the upper sanctuary. The authorities of the denomination to which the church belonged appointed a man to its pulpit who was progressive and independent, as well as being very broad-minded. The necessity for this lay in the fact that the population of the place represented nearly all the languages and creeds to be found in the Dominion, and consequently if a man of narrow views were appointed he would soon make shipwreck of everything.

      The new minister, as well as being broad and advanced, was very honorable, and would not in any way infringe upon the rights of others; but as Mount Zion was the only church in the place, he was perfectly safe from any charge of meanness, in the form of coaxing sheep away from a brother's fold. The first Sunday came upon which the Rev. Thomas Melvin was to occupy his new pulpit, and an immense congregation filled every part of the edifice. The text was from the Saviour's words, Feed my sheep, and the preacher had not gone far when his attentive hearers discovered that he was a man of great intellect and unusual

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