Author: Willard Wattles

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9781331390510

Excerpt from Lanterns in Gethsemane: A Series of Biblical and Mystical Poems, in Regard to the Christ in the Present Crisis One hesitates to preface such a book as this with explanation. In many ways it were better to let the work, such as it is, meet its public without introduction. But the peculiar personal nature of the verse must, even unwillingly on the author's part, be made clear for the sake of those to whom some such explanation is due. The poems of this book are the result of an experiment in living which grew out of two memorable experiences: one, the reading at about ten years of age of Rev. Charles M. Sheldon's "In His Steps"; the other the reading seven years later of "Each in His Own Tongue" by William Herbert Carruth. The first of "Lanterns" to be written was Gethsemane" in 1909, followed two years later by "The Wilderness." Such a poem as "Upon the Vatican" was planned for five years before being set on paper in the summer of 1918, and many others were in process of preparation for as long a time. The material of the book has been drawn from the New Testament and from the lives of the author's friends and parents. Hence, in a certain sense he has been a reporter. Though conscious for long of certain tendencies toward a religious and spiritual awakening in Europe and America now patent to all observers, the author's method of composition has been to search constantly backward along the trail of memories for the living and breathing Christ as revealed most authentically in the heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.