The circuit rider : $b A tale of the heroic ageEggleston, Edward
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The circuit rider : $b A tale of the heroic age
Eggleston, Edward
Christian fiction; Circuit riders -- Fiction; Social problems -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Morton returned to Jenkinsville circuit in some trepidation. He
feared that the old brethren would blame him more than ever. But
this time he found himself the object of much sympathy. Ann Eliza
had forestalled all gossip by renewing her engagement with the very
willing Bob Holston, who chuckled a great deal to think how he had
"cut out" the preacher, after all. And when Brother Magruder came to
understand that he had not understood Morton's case at all, and to
understand that he never should be able to understand it, he thought
to atone for any mistake he might have made by advising the bishop to
send Brother Goodwin to the circuit that included Hissawachee. And
Morton liked the appointment better than Magruder had expected.
Instead of living with his mother, as became a dutiful son, he soon
installed himself for the year at the house of Captain Lumsden, in
the double capacity of general supervisor of the moribund man's
affairs and son-in-law.
There rise before me, as I write these last lines, visions of
circuits and stations of which Morton was afterward the
preacher-in-charge, and of districts of which he came to be presiding
elder. Are not all of these written in the Book of the Minutes of
the Conferences? But the silent and unobtrusive heroism of Patty and
her brave and life-long sacrifices are recorded nowhere but in the
Book of God's Remembrance.
THE END.
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