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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III IN THE CAMP OF THE ENEMY A MAN of larger experience or profounder wisdom would have shrunk perhaps from the herculean task which Mr. Harrington had assumed, and would certainly have hesitated to undertake more. The stoutest heart might well have quailed before the strong and relentless enemies which he had made. To risk antagonizing others seemed foolhardy. Imagine, therefore, the surprise of the city and the consternation of his friends when the papers announced that Mr. Harrington had another fight on his hands. The " Herald," a rank partisan sheet, controlled by Tracy and his gang, Sunday morning sneeringly referred to " the impertinent youth at the Baptist church, who, with the ignorance of inexperience and the omniscience of a new-comer, had plunged into the political arena to give lessons in municipal management to the champions of many hard-fought battles?men who bore the scars inflicted in the discharge of their duty in defending the city from her foes long before this counterfeit Sir Galahad began to ride his hobby-horse. This meddler?while thewounds were still fresh upon the victims of his last Sunday's mauling?was going to administer another drubbing to-day, and this time to a helpless old woman!" The " Chronicle" simply announced Saturday that at three o'clock Sunday afternoon Mr. Harrington would begin a series of lectures in answer to the address of Hon. W. E. Wing, C. S. D. The address referred to by the " Chronicle " had been delivered in the opera house the previous Friday evening to two thousand people, who had come out in answer to newspaper advertising and personal invitations sent through the mail, to hear the noted Christian Science lecturer of the Mother Church at Boston, an ex-judge of the superior court of j Mr. Harringt...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<