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The Altar Steps
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Title: The Altar Steps
Author: Compton MacKenzie
Release Date: January 20, 2005 [EBook #14739]
Language: English
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THE ALTAR STEPS
BY
COMPTON MACKENZIE
_Author of "Carnival," "Youth's Encounter," "Poor Relations," etc._
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY 1922
The only portrait in this book is of one who is now dead
THIS BOOK, THE PRELUDE TO _The Parson's Progress_
I INSCRIBE WITH DEEPEST AFFECTION TO MY MOTHER
_S. Valentine's Day, 1922._
CONTENTS
I The Bishop's Shadow
II The Lima Street Mission
III Religious Education
IV Husband and Wife
V Palm Sunday
VI Nancepean
VII Life at Nancepean
VIII The Wreck
IX Slowbridge
X Whit-Sunday
XI Meade Cantorum
XII The Pomeroy Affair
XIII Wych-on-the-Wold
XIV St. Mark's Day
XV The Scholarship
XVI Chatsea
XVII The Drunken Priest
XVIII Silchester College Mission
XIX The Altar for the Dead
XX Father Rowley
XXI Points of View
XXII Sister Esther Magdalene
XXIII Malford Abbey
XXIV The Order of St. George
XXV Suscipe Me, Domine
XXVI Addition
XXVII Multiplication
XXVIII