Paterson's Parish (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. There is another man to whom I must introduce you?the Rev. William White- man, who is threatened with total loss of sight; and the introduction takes place at a critical moment in the career of that eminent Baptist minister, ?-such a moment as often reveals character. Whiteman has had trouble in his church, and has borne it like a Christian hero. There is no merrier laugh in the town than Whiteman's, yet who can pray with so trembling a reverence, or sympathise with human distress more tenderly ? His caressing tone is itself a kind of gospel. And those eyes, so large, so glowing, threatened with blindness ! I sometimes wish my chemist, Mr. Thomson, belonged to his church, for I think he could almost laugh him out of that ridiculous notion about the Moabitess. But Whiteman has been stung by a much inferior person, andhas suffered more from a gnat than he is ever likely to suffer from a lion. Mr. Titus Noxey had a front pew in the gallery of the Baptist chapel, and accounted himself a person of some consequence in the town, on various grounds, but principally from the fact that in addition to being a newsagent and tobacconist, the post-office of Midtown was under his charge. Mr. Noxey was constitutionally social. Mr. Noxey saw all sorts of people, sold stamps to all sorts of people, and was never known to be unwilling to talk to all sorts of people. Mr. Noxey never had occasion to go out of his own house to see anybody. The whole world of Midtown passed through Mr. Noxey's well-situated shop. The Vicar went to Noxey's for stamps, so did the Curate, so did the Catholic priest (a man with the sweetest smile I ever saw), so did the retired Quaker banker; besides these notable persons in the town, there were other notable persons from the surrounding district, for ...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. There is another man to whom I must introduce you?the Rev. William White- man, who is threatened with total loss of sight; and the introduction takes place at a critical moment in the career of that eminent Baptist minister, ?-such a moment as often reveals character. Whiteman has had trouble in his church, and has borne it like a Christian hero. There is no merrier laugh in the town than Whiteman's, yet who can pray with so trembling a reverence, or sympathise with human distress more tenderly ? His caressing tone is itself a kind of gospel. And those eyes, so large, so glowing, threatened with blindness ! I sometimes wish my chemist, Mr. Thomson, belonged to his church, for I think he could almost laugh him out of that ridiculous notion about the Moabitess. But Whiteman has been stung by a much inferior person, andhas suffered more from a gnat than he is ever likely to suffer from a lion. Mr. Titus Noxey had a front pew in the gallery of the Baptist chapel, and accounted himself a person of some consequence in the town, on various grounds, but principally from the fact that in addition to being a newsagent and tobacconist, the post-office of Midtown was under his charge. Mr. Noxey was constitutionally social. Mr. Noxey saw all sorts of people, sold stamps to all sorts of people, and was never known to be unwilling to talk to all sorts of people. Mr. Noxey never had occasion to go out of his own house to see anybody. The whole world of Midtown passed through Mr. Noxey's well-situated shop. The Vicar went to Noxey's for stamps, so did the Curate, so did the Catholic priest (a man with the sweetest smile I ever saw), so did the retired Quaker banker; besides these notable persons in the town, there were other notable persons from the surrounding district, for ...

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

Release date

2012

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2012

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

48

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978-0-217-52681-4

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9780217526814

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0-217-52681-0



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