"Who did not clasp the cross with a light laugh,

Or wrap the burning robe round, thanking God"?

As in later times, of no less fervent faith, "men took each other's hands and walked into the fire, and women sang a song of triumph while the gravedigger was shovelling the earth over their living faces," so now, in our own days, there still walks in the furnace, with His faithful servants, "One like unto the Son of God."

Every instance of faith or heroism given in these pages is not only true in itself, but typical of a hundred others. The tale is told, however feebly and inadequately, to strengthen our own faith and quicken our own love. It is told also to stir our own hearts to help and save the remnant that is left. The past is past, and we cannot change it now; but we CAN still save from death, or from fates worse than death, the children of Christian parents, who are helpless and desolate orphans because their parents were Christians, and true to the Faith they professed and the Name they loved.

D. ALCOCK.

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I
The Dark River[1]
CHAPTER II
Father and Son[9]
CHAPTER III
First Impressions[17]
CHAPTER IV
A New Life[26]
CHAPTER V
Baron Muggurditch Thomassian[44]
CHAPTER VI
Roses and Bath Towels[59]
CHAPTER VII
Gathering Storms[66]
CHAPTER VIII
A Proposal[73]
CHAPTER IX
Peace and Strife[91]
CHAPTER X
An Armenian Wedding[113]
CHAPTER XI
An Adventurous Ride[125]
CHAPTER XII
The Use of a Revolver[143]
CHAPTER XIII
What Pastor Stepanian thought[155]
CHAPTER XIV
A Modern Thermopylæ[173]
CHAPTER XV
Dark Hours[194]
CHAPTER XVI
"The Dark River Turns to Light"[214]
CHAPTER XVII
A Great Crime[229]
CHAPTER XVIII
Evil Tidings[241]
CHAPTER XIX
A Great Crime Consummated[256]
CHAPTER XX
By Abraham's Pool, and elsewhere[271]
CHAPTER XXI
"God-Satisfied and Earth-Undone"[287]
CHAPTER XXII
Given Back from the Dead[301]
CHAPTER XXIII
Betrothal[315]
CHAPTER XXIV
Under the Flag of England[323]
CHAPTER XXV
At Home[341]
CHAPTER XXVI
A Sermon[351]
Appendix[367]