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Hardcap, sure enough, to repair it. She had agreed to pay for the material, and he was to furnish the labor. The fence was straightened, and the gate re-hung, and the blinds mended up, and Mr. Hardcap was on the roof patching it where it leaked or threatened to. Deacon Goodsole had a bevy of boys from the Sabbath-school at work in the garden under his direction.
Jennie.: That is if he cannot well do both. Laicus.: Yes of course. If he can do both, that is very well. Dr. Argure.: That's a very dangerous doctrine Mr. Laicus. If it is true it is not dangerous. The truth is never dangerous. Dr. Argure.: The truth is not to be spoken at all times. Deacon Goodsole.: That's a very unnecessary doctrine, Dr., to teach to a lawyer. Dr. Consider, Mr.
But he united his prayers with ours that the Great Bishop would soon send us a pastor who should feed us with the bread of life. Deacon Goodsole says that the Providential indications are a salary of $1,800 and a parsonage; and Mr. Wheaton says if any other young man succeeds in playing us off against a rival parish he is mistaken; that's all. Even gentle Jennie is indignant.
It is cheaper than any lecturer would give it to us, and a great deal better quality too. My pew rent isn't what I pay for the support of the Gospel. It is what I pay for my own spiritual bread and butter. It won't hurt me, nor Deacon Goodsole, nor Mr. Wheaton, nor Mr. Gowett, nor any one else on that list to contribute thirty dollars more for the cause of Christ and the good of the community."
Deacon Goodsole also proposed to put Mr. Hardcap on the special committee to go to Koniwasset Corners, and Mr. Wheaton said he would furnish a free pass over the road to all who would go. No man is impervious to compliments if they are delicately administered. At all events Mr. Gear was sensibly pleased by having us call on him in a body. And Mr.
Mapleson's letter to the committee, to-morrow night at our first meeting. And I am curious to see what they'll say to it." The Supply Committee hold their first formal Meeting. PLACE: James Wheaton's library. Hour: seven and a half o'clock in the evening. Present: James Wheaton, Thomas Gear, James Goodsole, Solomon Hardcap, and John Laicus. John Laicus in the chair.
Hardcap and myself on behalf of the church. I forgot to mention that since our Bible-class was commenced, Mr. Gear has begun to attend church, though not very regularly. Mr. Goodsole nominated Mr. Gear on the committee, and of course he was elected. I was rather sorry for I would have preferred that he did not know about the internal workings of this church.
But I pity poor James from the bottom of my heart; and as my wife and I walked home I could not but help contrasting in my own mind Mr. Hardcap's way of reading the Bible and that which Deacon Goodsole pursues in his family. In Darkness. LAST Tuesday night Jennie met me at the station. It is unusual for her to do so. The surprise was a delightful one to me.
This brought an indignant protest from Deacon Goodsole, who is a strong advocate of the free-pew system. "Never," said he, "with my consent. Any pew-rent is bad enough. Trafficking in the Gospel is abominable at best. It shuts out the poor. Worse than that, it shuts out the godless, the irreligious, the profane the very men we want to catch. The pew-rents are too high now. We must not raise them."
Deacon Goodsole is a believer not I mean in anything in particular, but generally. He likes to believe; he enjoys it; he does it, not on evidence, but on general principles. The deacons of the stories are all crabbed, gnarled, and cross-grained. They are the terrors of the little boys, and the thorn in the flesh to the minister. But Deacon Goodsole is the most cheery, bright, and genial of men.
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