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The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen
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The parting of Life's road at Doubt and Faith! How many pilgrim
feet throughout the ages, toiling devoutly thus far, have shrunk
back before that unexpected and appalling sign! Disciples of the
living Lord, saints, philosophers, scholars, priests, knights,
statesmen--what a throng! What thoughts there born, prayers there
ended, vows there broken, light there breaking, hearts there torn
in twain! Mighty mountain rock! rising full in the road of
journeying humanity. Around its base the tides of the generations
dividing as part the long racing billows of the sea about some
awful cliff.

The lad closed his note-book, and taking his chair to the window,
folded his arms on the sill and looked out. Soon he noticed what
had escaped him before. Beyond the tree, at the foot of the ash-
heap, a single dandelion had opened. It burned like a steadfast
yellow lamp, low in the edge of the young grass. These two simple
things--the locust leaves, touched by the sun, shaken by the south
wind; the dandelion shining in the grass--awoke in him the whole
vision of the spring now rising anew out of the Earth, all over the
land: great Nature! And the vision of this caused him to think of
something else.

On the Sunday following his talk with the lad, the pastor had
preached the most arousing sermon that the lad had heard: it had
grown out of that interview: it was on modern infidelity--the new
infidelity as contrasted with the old.

In this sermon he had arraigned certain books as largely
responsible. He called them by their titles. He warned his people
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