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قراءة كتاب The Redemption of Freetown
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The Redemption of
Freetown
By
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon
Author of "In His Steps," etc.
United Society of Christian Endeavor
Boston and Chicago
Copyright, 1898
By United Society of Christian Endeavor
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Introduction | 5 | |
| I. | —The Problem of Freetown | 7 |
| II. | —Judge Vernon's Trouble | 14 |
| III. | —Howard Douglass's Plan | 21 |
| IV. | —The Carltons' Trouble | 28 |
| V. | —Callers at Mr. Douglass's | 35 |
| VI. | —Some Momentous Decisions | 42 |
| VII. | —The Freetown Settlement Started | 50 |
| VIII. | —Fifteen Years After | 57 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| The Escape | 12 |
| Claude Vernon's Return | 19 |
| "Have you heard the news?" | 26 |
| Inez Comes Home | 31 |
| Winifred and Isabel | 36 |
| "Will you live there yourself?" | 44 |
| "Burke Williams's case has been called up to a higher court" | 51 |
| "As he reached the corner, he stopped and looked back" | 63 |
INTRODUCTION
Th is little story was first read by me to my Young People's society of Christian Endeavor in the Central Church, Topeka, Kan., during the spring of 1898.
There is nothing impossible in the story, which is largely founded on actual facts known to very many besides myself. What seems to be miraculous or impossible in the redemption of humanity seems so because too often the Christian disciple does not give himself for the solution of the human problem.
This is the one great truth I have wished to impress by the telling of this history, which is partly true, and might easily be wholly so; the truth that it is God with us, Emmanuel, who is redeeming the world, and it must be ourselves, the Christ in us, with the unredeemed humanity near us, that must redeem it. The moment the churches, the Endeavor societies, the Christian disciples everywhere, put themselves into any unredeemed spot in any town or city or