Produced by David Garcia, Joseph R. Hauser and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Dorothy Page BY ELDRIDGE B. HATCHER AUTHOR OF THE YOUNG PROFESSOR AND THE HITTITES 1912 BAPTIST WORLD PUBLISHING CO. INCORPORATED LOUISVILLE, KY. Copyright, 1912, by BAPTIST WORLD PUBLISHING CO. CONTENTS. I. DOROTHY ARRIVES 5 II. DOROTHY'S CONVERSION 9 III. STERLING STATES HIS CASE 19 IV. GETTING INTO DEEP WATER 29 V. HANDLING THE THREE THOUSAND 37 VI. ONE POINT GAINED 55 VII. THE CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS 63 VIII. WRONGING THE LITTLE ONES 75 IX. CIRCUMCISION TO THE RESCUE 83 X. THE DISCIPLE PREACHER 95 XI. A BAPTIST ON THE WITNESS STAND 119 XII. DISCOVERY 139 XIII. BAPTIST PRINCIPLES ON THE MARCH 153 XIV. STERLING BRINGS IN HIS RESERVES 169 XV. CROSSING THE RUBICON 179 XVI. STERLING SCORES 189 TO THOSE WHO SEEK THE TRUTH AND PURSUE IT. E. B. H. CHAPTER I. DOROTHY ARRIVES. "You may see her tonight," said Mrs. Sterling to her son Gilbert. "When does she arrive?" "At six-twenty this afternoon. They say, son, she is beautiful." "From what point of the compass does the lovely paragon come?" asked Sterling with a smile. "She has just graduated from some college in the North. Her father and mother went to be with her in the closing exercises and will bring her home today." The subject of this conversation was Dorothy Page, whose palatial home was next door to the home of the Sterlings. The two families had become friends as well as neighbors. "Come over this evening, Sterling, and help me to celebrate the arrival of the family," called out Roland Page from his porch. Sterling agreed. At half past eight o'clock, as he entered the library of the Page home, he looked upon what seemed to him the most beautiful girl his imagination had ever pictured. He knew in a moment that he was a captive. As he walked down the front steps after his visit he felt sure that an epoch in his life had occurred.