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Canvasback library of Popular Fiction. Volume IX
A Second Coming
_A SECOND COMING_
_BY_ RICHARD MARSH
_JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD_ _NEW YORK & LONDON MCMIV_
Copyright, 1900 By John Lane
'If,' asked the Man in the Street, 'Christ were to come again to London, in this present year of grace, how would He be received, and what would happen?'
'I will try to show you,' replied the Scribe.
* * * * *
These following pages represent the Scribe's attempt to achieve the impossible.
CONTENTS
I. THE TALES WHICH WERE TOLD
CHAPTER
I. THE INTERRUPTED DINNER.
II. THE WOMAN AND THE COATS.
III. THE WORDS OF THE PREACHER.
IV. THE CHILDREN'S MOTHER.
V. THE OPERATION.
VI. THE BLACKLEG.
VII. IN PICCADILLY.
VIII. THE ONLY ONE THAT WAS LEFT.
IX. THE FIRST DISCIPLE.
X. THE DEPUTATION.
XI. THE SECOND DISCIPLE.
II. THE TUMULT WHICH AROSE
XII. THE CHARCOAL-BURNER.
XIII. A TRIUMPHAL ENTRY.
XIV. THE WORDS OF THE WISE.
XV. THE SUPPLICANT.
XVI. IN THE MORNING.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Second Coming by Richard Marsh
- 2: Leaning farther over the table
- 3: He held Fordham off with hand extended
- 4: The bicyclist and I were alone together
- 5: Why not in Bryanston Square if on the hill of Calvary
- 6: Fordham touched Chisholm lightly with his fingers on the arm
- 7: Davis no slight dissatisfaction
- 8: 'Clasping the parcel tightly to her
- 9: Then picked up the parcel which had fallen from her grasp
- 10: Davis slunk farther from the Stranger
- 11: ' As he turned up his shirtsleeves
- 12: Neither will they know My message
- 13: It is the word of Jesus Christ
- 14: Until in the fulness of time all things are made plain
- 15: Philip Evans remained silent and motionless
- 16: Doris did not realise what had happened
- 17: ''But you tumbled from the swing
- 18: He struck more vigorously at the bracken
- 19: The man stared angrily at the Stranger
- 20: For unto those that suffer most
- 21: A stretcher was carried in by two men
- 22: Spoke to the students on the benches
- 23: You would go forth as healers of men
- 24: 'We'll make him confess how the trick was done
- 25: He was one of the most notorious of the blacklegs
- 26: Their very fury defeated their purpose
- 27: In His presence their rage was stilled
- 28: In the operating theatre at St
- 29: But it was capable of natural explanation
- 30: This mysterious stranger were to appear in Piccadilly now
- 31: His appearance of being startled grew
- 32: It was seen that the Stranger started
- 33: Another wave of excitement passed through the throng
- 34: At Hyde Park Corner the Stranger stopped
- 35: Looked towards where the speaker stood
- 36: Further into the heart of the park
- 37: The Stranger walking at his side
- 38: 'Presently the shoemaker came to the Stranger
- 39: I don't mind being lame if father is
- 40: 'to heal the sick with a touch
- 41: Before I have you locked up for trespass
- 42: 'Will you come with us in the wagonette
- 43: The leaven spreads through the whole body politic
- 44: Thy children are mortal very mortal
- 45: ''The material and the spiritual
- 46: Treadman sought the shelter of the loft
- 47: Treadman went up into the loft
- 48: 'Yet the lame man said nothing
- 49: 'He began to bargain with the driver
- 50: When these two Christian workers received Mr
- 51: I'm a charcoal burner by trade
- 52: 'The charcoal burner put his gnarled
- 53: But I do know she did make me feel terrible ashamed
- 54: Bates his dinner he called him Lord
- 55: The lame man and the charcoal burner rode with Him
- 56: Powell has borne the heat and burden of the day
- 57: They have made unto themselves graven images
- 58: When they realised who Christ Jesus was
- 59: A craving for demonstrable proof
- 60: Jebb ceased to speak than there rose a huge man
- 61: This is the more surprising as it has no secular side
- 62: And I believe that He will forgive me
- 63: I speak for the Churches of Protestant Christendom only
- 64: I declined to realise that it does not attract Christ
- 65: When his black mood has passed
- 66: She maintained that sexual intercourse was a thing of horror
- 67: She remained as one rooted to the floor
- 68: ''She's grown old since last night
- 69: That Christ should be regarded as a common nuisance
- 70: Grasping the banister with both hands
- 71: 'when the Great Healer Himself is upstairs
- 72: Jebb lashed them with his tongue
- 73: Jebb 'What is it that you would say to Me
- 74: Conscious of crying grievances
- 75: ''Your sense of decency and reverence
- 76: 'The Archbishop looked up from his plate
- 77: 'Your frankness shocks the Archbishop
- 78: The question came from Sir William Braidwood
- 79: Jebb himself was badly snubbed
- 80: 'The Archbishop turned towards him
- 81: 'This was the Earl of Hailsham
- 82: Was an unusual figure in a London street
- 83: 'One replied 'Among those whom you healed this morning
- 84: And worse than blackguards you fools
- 85: It is he whom that swarm of riff raff has been chivying
- 86: Have you forgotten that Christ was made man
- 87: We've been looking for a miracle
- 88: We must be healed of our diseases
- 89: Assuming an air of Divine irresponsibility
- 90: The world stinks of favouritism
- 91: Then he shall work the miracles we want
- 92: Among them was Sir William Braidwood
- 93: Then someone said 'Because you healed those others
- 94: ' muttered Walters to his companions
- 95: ''With God there is no injustice
- 96: For faultlessness of that sort is in continual
- 97: You yourself are not crucified again
- 98: To whom the Archbishop introduced himself
- 99: The Archbishop fitted his glasses on his nose
- 100: At Louvain do they teach such forwardness
- 101: ''You had better return to your seminary
- 102: 'The Cardinal staggered against the wall
- 103: Our friend Braidwood is justified already