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Updated: June 18, 2025
Alice and I did not find it in our power either to overlook or to combat these trifling objections; with unabated optimism we cast our eyes elsewhere, and within a month we found another delectable biding place this time some distance from the city in fact, in one of the new and booming suburbs. Elmdale was then new to fame.
But I tell you it seems good to see you in the flesh once more." "Why didn't you come and preach for me last Sunday?" asked Philip, quizzically. "Why, haven't you heard? I did not get news of the affair until last Saturday in my Western parish, and I was just in the throes of packing up to come on to Elmdale." "Elmdale?" "Yes, I've had a call there. So we shall be neighbors. Mrs.
"Oh, well, that may be, Sarah. But let me read you the other letter," he went on without discussing the salary matter. DEAR BROTHER: At a meeting of the Elmdale Chapel Hill Church, held last week Thursday, it was unanimously voted to extend you a call to become pastor of the church at a salary of $2,000 a year, with two months' vacation, to be selected at your own convenience.
I could go there as the pastor of the Elmdale church and preach to an audience of college boys eight months in the year and to about eighty refined, scholarly people the rest of the time. I could indulge my taste for reading and writing and enjoy a quiet pastorate there to the end of my days."
"Well, Sarah," replied Philip, good-naturedly, "this is the way of it. The church in Elmdale is in a University town. The atmosphere of the place is scholastic. You know I passed four years of student life there. With the exception of the schools, there are not a thousand people in the village, a quiet, sleepy, dull, retired, studious place. I love the memory of it.
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