title: Beside The Still Waters
author: Charles Meyer
description: In this third mystery of the series, The Rev. Lucas Holt and his ex-com God Squad take on politicians, clergy, cops and militia-and nothing is going right. Holt's girlfriend Kristen Wade is barely alive in Intensive Care.
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  # Beside the Still Waters
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Charles Beard
  
  
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  BESIDE THE STILL WATERS:
  
  
  A SERMON,
  
  
  PREACHED IN
  
  
  RENSHAW STREET CHAPEL, LIVERPOOL,
  
  
  ON
  
  
  SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1871.
  
  
  BY
  
  
  CHARLES BEARD, B.A.
  
  
  PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.
  
  
  
  
  
  LONDON: PRINTED BY C. GREEN AND SON, STRAND, W.C.
  
  
  
  
  
  In Memory of
  
  
  ELIZABETH GREENE GAIR.
  
  
  
  
  
  BESIDE THE STILL WATERS.
  
  
  “He leadeth me beside the still waters.”
  
  
  PSALM xxiii. 2.
  
  
  There has been a period of geological speculation, at which all the
  
  
  changes which have taken place upon the earth's surface, and have left
  
  
  their unmistakable marks in countless relics of animal and vegetable
  
  
  life, were attributed to the action of sudden and violent forces, of
  
  
  which, to-day, earthquake and tempest and volcano