Chapter I: Book I: Love

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I. KARL METZEROTT ATTENDS A KAFFEE KLATSCH 9

II. THE PASTOR’S BLUE APRON 23

III. A PESSIMIST 30

IV. DREAMS AND DREAMERS 38

V. “WHEN SORROWS COME” 50

VI. IN BATTALIONS 60

VII. “’VIDING” 72

VIII. MULTIPLICATION 80

IX. FORS FORTUNA 87

X. HOMINIBUS BONÆ VOLUNTATIS 95

XI. YGDRASIL 104

XII. “O YE ICE AND SNOW, BLESS YE THE LORD!” 114

XIII. PROSIT NEUJAHR 126

XIV. LEARNING AND TEACHING 133

BOOK II.

_ALTRUISM._

I. AFTER TWELVE YEARS 147

II. NEO-SOCIALISM 162

III. PRINCE LOUIS 174

IV. CINDERELLA’S SLIPPERS 182

V. “DAS DING-AN-SICH” 203

VI. “AN ENEMY CAME AND SOWED TARES” 211

VII. GRADUAL ENFRANCHISEMENT 221

VIII. RITTER FRITZ 239

IX. “THE ETYMOLOGY OF GRACE” 248

X. PREACHING AND PRACTICE 261

BOOK III.

_FLOOD AND FIRE._

I. “O’ER CRAG AND TORRENT, TILL THE NIGHT IS GONE,” 277

II. “POLLY, PUT THE KETTLE ON” 288

III. PANSIES 297

IV. VÆ VICTIS. 314

V. AN EXPERIMENT 328

VI. THE FRAGRANCE OF TEA-ROSES 334

VII. “THESE, THROUGH THEIR FAITH, RECEIVED NOT THE PROMISE” 346

VIII. “THAT, APART FROM US, THEY SHOULD NOT BE MADE PERFECT” 368