The Story of the Other Wise Man (Illustrated Edition)

By Henry Van Dyke and General Press

The Story of the Other Wise Man by an American religious writer, lecturer, and clergyman, Henry Van Dyke. This is one of his most famous short stories, which, like many of his other works, centered around moral and religious themes. 

During the time of the birth of Jesus, a fourth Wise Man, Artaban, sells all his poss

• Language: English
• Publisher: GENERAL PRESS
• Release date: Oct 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9789391181987

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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Contents

The Story of the Other Wise Man

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

The Story of the Other Wise Man

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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 traveled 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