The coming

The coming

Produced by: D A Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works put online by Harvard University Library's Open Collections Program.) The vicar of the parish sat at his study table pen in hand, a sheet of paper before him. It was Saturday morning already and his weekly sermon was not yet begun. On Sundays, at the forenoon service, it was Mr. Perry-Henningtons custom to read an old discourse, but in the evening the rigid practice of nearly forty years required that he should give to the world a new and original homily. To a man of the vicars mold this was a fairly simple matter. His rustic flock was not in the least critical. To the villagers of Penfold, a hamlet on the borders of Sussex and Kent, every word of their pastor was gospel. And in their pastors own gravely deliberate words it was the gospel of Christ Crucified. There had been a time in the vicars life when his task had sat lightly upon him. Given the family living of Penfold-with-Churley in October, 1879, the Reverend[Pg 2] the Honorable Thomas Perry-Hennington had never really had any trouble in the matter until August, 1914. And then, all at once, trouble came so heavily upon a man no longer young, that from about the time of the retreat from Mons Saturday morning became a symbol of torment. It was then that a dark specter first appeared in the vicars mind. For thirty-five years he had been modestly content with a simple moral obligation in return for a stipend of eight hundred pounds a year. He had never presumed to question the fitness of a man with an Oxford pass degree for such a relatively humble office. A Christian of the old sort, with the habit of faith, and in his own phrase without intellectual smear, he had always been on terms with God. And though Mr. Perry-Hennington would have been the last to claim Him as a tribal deity, in the vicars ear He undoubtedly spoke with the accent of an English public school, and used the language of Dr. Pusey and Dr. Westcott. But somehow August, 1914, had seemed to change everything. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 69050
Author: Snaith, J. C. (John Collis)
Release Date: Sep 26, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Publication Date: 1917
Publisher Country: United States