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The Lost Word

by Henry van Dyke

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On Christmas morning in Antioch, some fifteen hundred years ago, the student Hermas is weary of poverty and of the faith he is training to serve. A stranger offers him riches and pleasure in exchange for a single word, the name of God. Hermas accepts, and his new life is full and rich until he finds he has lost the one word he needs.

A short Christmas legend by the author of The Other Wise Man, for reading aloud in the season. Download the free EPUB.

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