METZEROTT, SHOEMAKER
“Omne vivum ex vivo.”
“What is your creed?”
“Jesus Christ.”
“What do you believe about him?”
“What we can. We count any belief in him—the smallest—better than any belief about him—the greatest,—or about anything else.”
NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. 13 ASTOR PLACE
COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
C. J. PETERS & SON, TYPOGRAPHERS AND ELECTROTYPERS, 146 HIGH STREET, BOSTON.
DEDICATION.
“Laborare est orare.”
TO
=The Clergy and the Workingmen of America=.
MAY THEY WORK AND PRAY TOGETHER FOR THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST.
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
LOVE.
CHAPTER PAGE 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