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Life in a Parsonage ; Or, Lights and Shadows of the Itinerancy
Life in a Parsonage Or Lights and Shadows of the Itinerancy Author:William Henry Withrow 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 II. A KETROSPECT. " The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly plann'd." WOKDS... more »WOBTH. T AWRENCE TEMPLE, it will be remembered by J-J readers of The King's Messenger, a previous story by the present writer, was an ingenuous Canadian youth, the son of a Methodist preacher, who died, leaving his family, of whom Lawrence, then a mere boy, was the eldest, with very meagre means of support. Eager to help his mother and sisters, and to earn the means of obtaining an education, he went to a lumber camp far up the Mattawa, where he laboured as axeman, teamster, and clerk, with a sturdy strength of character which was the sure guarantee of success. Having earned enough money to pay his way at college for a while, he devoted himself with as much enthusiasm to mental as he had to manual labour, and laid at least the foundation of a broad and liberal education. The Church of his choice, discerning his gifts and religious graces, laid its hand upon him, and employed him first as a lay preacher, and afterwards as a Missionary amid what was then the wilderness of Muskoka, as a probationer on trial as to his fitness for the regular ministry. His own heart responding tothis call of the Church, and to what he felt was a call of God, to preach the Gospel, he laboured with great diligence and success in the hard work of a pioneer preacher. On this backwoods circuit lived a family of singular refinement and culture, that of Mr. Norris, a village schoolmaster. The fair Edith Norris, the assistant of her father in the school, a young lady of rare charms of person and of mind, made a deep impression upon the heart of the young preacher. Although he cherished her image in his soul as the ideal of all that was loveliest ...« less