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    Beyond the Marshes
    Beyond the Marshes
    Beyond the Marshes
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    Beyond the Marshes

    By Ralph Connor

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Beyond the Marshes
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    Ralph Connor

    Ralph Connor was the pseudonym of best-selling Canadian writer Charles William Gordon. Born in a small town in Ontario, Gordon’s interest in writing was ignited as a student first at the University of Toronto and then at Knox College, where he completed his divinity studies. Gordon went on to become a reverend in both the Presbyterian and United churches, and used the pen name Ralph Connor to keep his literary activities separate from his religious vocation. Over the course of his career, Connor published more than forty works, including the wildly popular The Sky Pilot, which sold more than one million copies, Glengarry School Days, The Man from Glengarry, and Postscript to Adventure, a posthumous autobiography published after Gordon’s death in 1937.

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      Beyond the Marshes - Ralph Connor

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Beyond the Marshes, by Ralph Connor

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      Title: Beyond the Marshes

      Author: Ralph Connor

      Release Date: March 1, 2008 [eBook #24724]

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEYOND THE MARSHES***

      E-text prepared by Al Haines

      BEYOND THE MARSHES

      by

      RALPH CONNOR

      Author of Black Rock and The Sky Pilot

      The Westminster Company Limited

      Publishers

      Toronto

      Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, by The Westminster Company, Limited, at the Department of Agriculture.

      Have you ever caught the scent of the clover as you were whirled away by the train beyond the city on a summer's day and sped through the rich pasture lands? And do you remember how you stepped forth at the first halting-place to secure a sprig of the sweet, homely flower that had spoken to you so eloquently in its own language, and how you pressed it in your book? Does not its perfume remain with you till this day? And every now and then a fragrance is wafted to our inner senses as we read some simple story which is to us as a breath of the clover, bringing us a message of sweetness and beauty, and going straight to our hearts with the power that belongs to the secrets which lie hidden at our lifers core.

      And this sweet prairie idyll is surely one of those fragrant messages which lays its hold on us as we pause for a moment in the midst of our fevered lives and anxious thoughts, and step across the threshold of that chamber where we must needs put our shoes from off our feet, for the place whereon we stand

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