# "The Debatable Land": A Novel

Author: Colton, Arthur, 1868-1943

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41963

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=%22The+Debatable+Land%22%3A+A+Novel+Colton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Widow Bourn's house stood behind the church, and blue flowers grew contentedly on the sloping green, shy fancies of a maiden spring that never lasted out a summer's experience. New England churches have not that air of nestling comfort which seemed to Meister Eckhart so sweet a symbol. They crown the hills with square frames and sharpened steeples, churches militant, plate-mailed in clapboards, with weather-vane aimed defiantly into the wind. Their doors are closed, their windows shuttered against all days of the week saving one. But Widow Bourn found the proximity comfortable. The church militant faced the issues of the spirit for her, and subdued them. She plodded through her Bible, dra...

## Chapters

- [Chapter XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-debatable-land-a-novel-41963/chapters/1/index.md)