: Mary: The Queen of the House of David and Mother of Jesus The Story of Her Life by Walsh A Stewart Alexander Stewart Talmage T De Witt Thomas De Witt Author Of Introduction Etc - Biographical fiction; Christian fiction; Christian women saints Fiction; Mary

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"A form beloved comes again"--Inspired painters in a voyage of discovery--Tributes to Mary, honoring all womankind--Guido's wish--Madonnas of many climes. Raphael's "Transfigured Woman"--Savonarola's bonfire--St. Luke's picture of the Virgin--The Vandal spirit. Page 29

Life a pilgrimage--Pilgrims of many faiths--A struggle for holy places between the Pilgrim-Crusaders and Moslem--The harem and the home--The rise of Chivalry--The Knights and "Our Lady"--The results of the Crusades. Page 36

"The wandering hermit wakes the storms of war"--Acre and Esdraelon, the "Armageddon" or "Mountain of the Gospel" of the Scriptures--The battle-field of nations--The City of Jeanne d'Arc. The jewel in the sickle-haft--Prince Edward, the Crusade leader--Sultan Kha-tel--The sacking of Acre--Actors introduced. Page 48

The flight from Acre to Nazareth--The born-leader--Life estimates with Death holding the scales--A prince honors, a bishop blesses, and a mother loves--An epitome of paradoxes. Page 53

Nazareth, the place of Mary's nativity--The choice of a leader--The coward king--The Virgin's Fount--English songsters--The Knights' mountain Litany--Longings for home and mother--Nain and Endor's lessons. Page 61

Sir Charleroy's band approach Shunem, the City of Elijah--The surprise--Sir Charleroy the captive of Azrael the Mameluke--The Mohammedan heaven depicted--"A hair, the bridge over hell"--The odoriferous houris--A gorgeous charnel-house blasted--The prodigal becomes the herald of purity--The Knight of Saint Mary and the Jewish Spy--Adversity makes the Knight and the Jew friends--The Knight instructing Ichabod--"'Till Shiloh comes"--"The true, refined and final Judaism"--"The east and the west embracing; truth leading."--An honest doubt is a real prayer. Page 82

The radiant proselyte--Climbing to glory--The ghostly forms hovering over submerged Sodom--Jordan's sweetening--Siddim-angels among the willows and oleanders by the Dead Sea--Summonsed to fight for the Crescent or go to the slave mart--Nourahmal "The light of the harem" becomes the disciple and friend of Ichabod--A debate concerning women--A rarity and a wonder--"I told her women had souls; she laughed like a monkey"--The flight from Jericho by night--The lightning--God's torch--"Canst thou dance rocks into camels?"--A mummy's flight, and the burial of a live man--"Unclean"--The solemn passage of Jordan. Page 93

A breakfast of lentils and barley in the wilderness--The gloom of the Knight and the joy of the Jew--Sermons on fate and songs in flowers--The poetry of Ichabod--Celibacy a reward at Rome--Kneph "The father of his mother"--The heathen and the Christian "Feast of the Rose"--The summary of the events in Mary's life and in the life of Jesus--The Egyptian Rosary--Neb-ta the maiden sister--The egg and the cross, ancient signs of immortality--The Copt priest--The insights of the Egyptians symbolized by the Sphinx. Page 113

A night-scene by Jabbock--Harrimai the priest, and his daughter Rizpah--The religious ceremonial and the revel--Sir Charleroy and Rizpah as "Ahasuerus and Esther"--The Knight's secret discovered--Conquest of a woman's heart through pity--"Of what metals Jewish maidens are." Page 152

The Knight of Saint Mary enslaved by a Hebrew beauty--The journey toward Bozrah--The Mameluke attack--The hand to hand fight--Sir Charleroy wounded and Ichabod slain--Rizpah's heroism in peril--Espousal in the face of death--A wonderful vision. Page 170

Teacher and pupil become patient and nurse--Perilous relations--Delights, assurances, fears and clouds--Harrimai's discovery and his malediction--Love's debate and decision--Elopement by night--the Knight and the Jewess wedded at Damascus. Page 182

The death of Harrimai--A honey-moon in the "Eye of the East"--To Bashan with the Mecca chaplet-seekers--Nature, art and desolation--Lejah's black lava-sea--The frenzies of Gerash's passion-flower--Reaction after exaltation--"A camel voyage in-sea"--Rizpah's challenge--Jealous of Sir Charleroy's love for Mary--"Illusion"--The church of Saint George at Edrei--Recrimination--Ridicule costly to pride--Neither Christian, Jew nor Pagan--A woman with unsettled faith--A babe poisoned by its mother's passion--The lamp and the palm-trees--The Knight's appeals--Omens--A beacon needed--Fleeing the Lejah--To Bozrah. Page 195

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