earthly-agent

Updated: June 20, 2025

"No!" let him say; "if this is to be a minister, no minister can I be!" For what is left of the field the Lord sends the minister into? It is cut up and fenced off into countless divisions, to every one of which some earthly-agent or interest brings a title-deed.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863