United States or Bulgaria ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


I don't say that men of influence are not factors in the Church to-day, but I do say that they are not using the intelligence in this task which they bring to bear, for instance, on their business." "Perhaps the clergy might help," Hodder suggested, and added more seriously, "I think that many of them are honestly trying to do so." "No doubt of it. Why is it," Mr.

"Don't he silly, Rose," said Lady Bazelhurst. "Where is she, Hodder?" "In the laundry, your ladyship. There are two fractures." "By Jove, two legs instead of one, then worse than I thought," cried Bazelhurst, draining his glass. "Send at once for a doctor, Hodder, and take her to her room. Isn't it annoying," said her ladyship. "It's so difficult to keep a cook in the mountains."

Nor did it tend to ease his mind that he was treated as one who has passed on to higher things. "I was afraid you'd work too hard," said Mrs. Whitely, in her motherly way. "I warned you against it, Mr. Hodder. You never spared yourself, but in a big city parish it's different. But you've made such a success, Nelson tells me, and everybody likes you there. I knew they would, of course.

Hodder looked at his watch, only to be reminded poignantly of the chief cause of his heaviness of spirit, for it represented concretely the affections of those whom he had left behind; brought before him vividly the purple haze of the Bremerton valley, and the garden party, in the ample Whitely grounds, which was their tribute to him.

"I affirm that baptism with water is not sufficient." "I'm afraid that this is very grave," Mr. Hodder. "I quite agree with you," replied the rector, looking straight at his vestryman. "And I understood, " the other went on, clearing his throat once more, "I think I have it correctly stated in my notes, but I wish to be quite clear, that you denied the doctrine of the virgin birth."

There was a silence, brief, indeed, but long enough for Hodder to feel more and more distinctly the granite hardness which the other had become, to experience a rising, reenforcing anger. He went forward, steadily but resolutely, on the crest of it.

Perhaps you would give me the pleasure of taking supper with me, if you have no other engagement." No other engagement! Not until then did Hodder remember his empty rooms in the parish house, and the train which was to have borne him away from all this already speeding northward.

What's more, I've a notion that some of our friends are already a little suspicious of him." "You mean Mr. Parr?" she asked, anxiously. "No, Wallis Plimpton." "Oh!" she exclaimed, with disdain in her voice. "Mr. Parr only got back yesterday, and Wallis told me that Hodder had refused to go on a yachting trip with him. Not only foolishness, but high treason." Phil smiled.

"I do not know what my testimony may be worth to you, my friend, but I give it freely. I sometimes think I have been peculiarly fortunate. But I have lived a great many years, and the older I get and the more I see of human nature the firmer has grown my conviction of its essential nobility and goodness." Hodder marvelled, and was silent. "You will come here, often, every day if you can.

In that glimpse he had into the heart of life's terrible mystery he momentarily understood many things: he knew that behind the abandon of the woman's song was the same terror which reigned in the room in which he stood.... There were voices in the passageway without, a woman saying in a German accent, "It is here, sir." There was a knock at the door.... Hodder opened the door.