From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe

"He vindicates his right to use the talent which God has given him for the instruction and interest of the thousands who read his works." — New York Evangelist.

"The hero is simple, strong, and manly; much such a man as Mr. Lincoln must have been had he turned his attention to theology instead of politics." — New York World.

"It is surprising to find how genuinely interesting his stories always are. There is nothing of the vulgarly sensational about them." — Eclectic Magazine.

Book Contents

• Reviews
• Preface.
• 1 A Practical Joke.
• 2 The Victim.
• 3 Puzzled And Interested.
• 4 A Little Pagan.
• 5 Plain Talk.
• 6 A Sleigh-ride And Something More.
• 7 Another Spell Than Beauty’s.
• 8 Finding One’s Level.
• 9 “The Other Set.”
• 10 Human Nature.
• 11 A Possible Tragedy.
• 12 Miss Marsden Asks Sombre Questions.
• 13 A Lover Quenched.
• 14 Lottie A Mysterious Problem.
• 15 Hemstead Sees “Our Set.”
• 16 How Woman Makes Or Mars.
• 17 Midnight Vigils.
• 18 Hemstead’s Heavy Gun And Its Recoil.
• 19 The Preacher Taught By The Pagan
• 20 The Dawning Light.
• 21 Misunderstood.
• 22 “You Must Wait And See.”
• 23 A Rationalist Of The Old School.
• 24 The Terror Of A Great Fear.
• 25 A True Knight.
• 26 On A Crumbling Ice-floe.
• 27 The Meeting And Greeting.
• 28 The Trail Of Love.
• 29 Hemstead’s Advice, And Lottie’s Colors.
• 30 Around The Yule-log.
• 31 Under The Mistletoe.
• 32 The Christmas Sunday.
• 33 The End Of The “Jest.”
• 34 Loyal.
• 35 Mr. Dimmerly Concludes To “Meddle.”
• 36 A Night In The Snow.
• 37 In Earnest.
• Copyright Information

Publication Information

• Lutheran Library edition first published: 2019-09-23
• Updated: 2019-09-23
• Copyright: CC BY 4.0