Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar had agreed to wait ten days for Artaban, one of the Persian magi, to journey from his home in Ecbatana. But they could wait no longer, for they had to leave to pay homage to the new born King of Israel, whom the stars had foretold...

Henry van Dyke first read The Story of The Other Wise Man aloud to his New York congregation after writing it in 1896. Since then it has been published in many languages and for all ages, each time touching readers with its moving story of the wise man who spent his life searching for the promised king.