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    The Story of the Other Wise Man
    The Story of the Other Wise Man
    The Story of the Other Wise Man
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    The Story of the Other Wise Man

    By Henry Van Dyke

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Henry Van Dyke

    Henry Van Dyke (1928–2011) was born in Allegan, Michigan, and grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, where his parents were professors at Alabama State College. He served in the Army in occupied Germany, playing flute in the 427th Marching Band. There he abandoned his early ambition to become a concert pianist and began to write. In 1958, after attending the University of Michigan on the G.I. Bill and living in Ann Arbor, he moved to New York, where he spent the rest of his life. Henry taught creative writing part-time at Kent State University from 1969 until his retirement in 1993, and was the author of four novels, including Blood of Strawberries, a sequel to Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes.

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      The Story of the Other Wise Man - Henry Van Dyke

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      Title: The Story of the Other Wise Man

      Author: Henry van Dyke

      Release Date: January 11, 2004 [eBook #10679]

      Language: English

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF THE OTHER WISE MAN***

      E-text prepared by Margaret Macaskill, David Garcia,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      Editorial note:   While the original illustrations are listed, none are included in this e-book.

      THE STORY OF THE OTHER WISE MAN

      BY

      HENRY VAN DYKE

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      THE SIGN IN THE SKY

      BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON

      FOR THE SAKE OF A LITTLE CHILD

      IN THE HIDDEN WAY OF SORROW

      A PEARL OF GREAT PRICE

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      'IT IS THE SIGN,' HE SAID

      HE CAUGHT IT UP AND READ

      'THERE IS NONE HERE SAVE ME'

      HE HEALED THE SICK

      THE OLD MAN FOLLOWED THE MULTITUDE

      THE OTHER WISE MAN HAD FOUND THE KING

      THE STORY OF OTHER WISE MAN.

      Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,

      May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;

      While he who walks in love may wander far,

      Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.

      You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away to offer their gifts at the manger-cradle in Bethlehem. But have you ever heard the story of the Other Wise Man, who also saw the star in its rising, and set out to follow it, yet did not arrive with his brethren in the presence of the young child Jesus? Of the great desire of this fourth pilgrim, and how it was denied, yet accomplished in the denial; of his many wanderings and the probations of his soul; of the long way of his seeking, and the strange way of his finding, the One whom he sought—I would tell the tale as I have heard fragments of it in the Hall of Dreams, in the palace of the Heart of Man.

      THE SIGN IN THE SKY

      In the days when Augustus Caesar was master of many kings and Herod reigned in Jerusalem, there lived in the city of Ecbatana, among the mountains of Persia, a certain man named Artaban, the Median. His house stood close to the outermost of the seven walls which encircled the royal treasury. From his roof he could look over the rising battlements of black and white and crimson and blue and red and silver and gold, to the hill where the summer palace of the Parthian emperors glittered like a jewel in a sevenfold crown.

      Around the dwelling of Artaban spread a fair garden, a tangle of flowers and fruit-trees, watered by a score of streams descending from the slopes of Mount Orontes, and made musical by innumerable birds. But all colour was lost in the soft and odorous darkness of the late September night, and all sounds were hushed in the deep charm of its silence, save the plashing of the water, like a voice half sobbing and half laughing under the shadows. High above the trees a dim glow of light shone through the curtained arches of the upper chamber, where the master of the house was holding council with his friends.

      He stood by the doorway to greet his guests—a tall, dark man of about forty years, with

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