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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: The Macmillan Company Subjects: Fiction / Political Fiction / Alternative History History / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Poetry / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER HOW PEOPLE OF 1920 THINK THE GOLDEN BOOK WILL COME IN 2018 When we, the Prognosticator's Club, come together for our meetings it is inevitable that our talk should be of the Springfield of our fancy and of the manner in which the vision has come to each one. The first to testify, when we call the members together in the Sun Parlor of the Leland Hotel is the young Campbellite minister. He tells us of a dream that has come to him on many evenings by his study fire. In a vision he is reborn three or four generations in the future. He is a priest of the Catholic Church. He is known as St. Friend, the Giver of Bread. He is almost alone in a vast Gothic Cathedral He is astonished to find himself changed in body, conviction, and habit from all his former routine, but enough memory remains for the comparison, and he knows he is still himself. But of this another time. There are a few people praying at the sta- tions of the cross, in this, Springfield's new church of St. Peter and St. Paul, on the old site of Sixth and Reynold's Streets. The time is All Saint's Day, Anno Domini, 2018. As he tells us the story, the very picture springs before me in elaborate detail, as though I witnessed the event in my own person. The church is indeed gigantic for so small a town to build, and in many particulars as well as general type it is like Notre Dame, Paris. We behold with him how a book ...

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