A Worker of Wonders E-Book

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

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A Worker of Wonders tells the enigmatic story of a humble figure whose miraculous influence transforms the lives of others—yet remains shrouded in ambiguity. Doyle fuses moral parable with subtle mysticism, crafting a tale about belief, faith, and the unexplained. Is the protagonist a saint or a fraud? The reader is left to decide.

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A Worker of Wonders

The Uncharted Coast Series

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Prepared and edited by: Rafat Allam

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Published in The Strand Magazine, December 1894

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First published in The Strand Magazine, May 1921

Daniel Dunglas Home

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ON the early morning of April 9th, 1855, the steam packet Africa, from Boston, was drawing into Liverpool Docks. Captain Harrison, his responsibility lifted from him, was standing on the bridge, the pilot beside him, while below the passengers had assembled, some bustling about with their smaller articles of luggage, while others lined the decks and peered curiously at the shores of Old England. Most of them showed natural exultation at the successful end of their voyage, but among them was one who seemed to have no pleasant prospects in view. Indeed, his appearance showed that his most probable destiny would make him independent of any earthly career. Tliis was a youth some two-and-twenty years of age, tall, slim, with a marked elegance of bearing and a fastidious neatness of dress, but with a worn, hectic look upon his very expressive face, which told of the ravages of some wasting disease. Blue-eyed, and with hair of a light auburn tint, he was of the type which is peculiarly open to the attack of tubercle, and the extreme emaciation of his frame showed how little power remained with him by which he might resist it. An acute physician watching him closely would probably have given him six months of life in our humid island. Yet this young man was destined to be the instrument of God in making a greater change in English thought than any traveller for centuries—a change only now developing and destined, as I think, to revolutionize for ever our views on the most vital of all subjects. For this was Daniel Dunglas Home, a youth of Scottish birth and extraction, sprung from the noble Border family of that name, and the possessor of strange personal powers which make him, with the possible exception of Swedenborg, the most remarkable individual of whom we have any record since the age of the Apostles, whose gifts he appeared to inherit. A deep melancholy lay upon his sensitive features as he viewed the land which contained no one whom he could call friend. Tears welled from his eyes, for he was a man of swift emotions and feminine susceptibilities. Then, with a sudden resolution, he disengaged himself from the crowd, rushed down to the cabin, and fell upon his knees in prayer. He has recorded how a spring of hope and comfort bubbled up in his heart, so that no more joyous man set his foot that day upon the Mersey quay, or one more ready to meet the fate which lay before him.

A deep melancholy lay upon his sensitive features as he viewed the land which contained no one whom he could call friend.