A Circuit Rider's Wife. Corra Harris
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Corra Harris
A Circuit Rider's Wife
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664640796
Table of Contents
I AM CHOSEN INSTEAD OF THE PRAYER MEETING VIRGIN
I BUILD FOR MYSELF A MONUMENT MORE ENDURING THAN BRASS
WILLIAM AS A LEADER OF FORLORN HOPE
WILLIAM ENTERS HIS WORLDLY MIND
THE LITTLE ITINERANT—AND OTHERS
THE CHEERFUL LITTLE DOG THAT LED THE BLIND MAN
WILLIAM WRESTLING WITH TRAVELING ANGELS
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT THE NATURE OF A PRIEST
SKELETONS IN WILLIAM'S DOCTRINAL CLOSET
IN THE LITTLE GRAVEYARD BEHIND REDWINE CHURCH
CONSCIENTIOUS SCRUPLES ABOUT THE CHURCH
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Old, Burly Country Doctor Bending Above Me … … Frontispiece
Brother Tom Pratt, a Prominent Member, Had Backslided
With Such Sad Hunger in Their Faces
"I'll Pay You, Parson. I'll Pay as Soon as I'm Able"
I Heard Him in His Study Singing
"It's Going to Be an Awful Night, Don't Go—She Is Not a Member of Your Church"
Then He Took Up with Job in the Scriptures
Not So Much for Him as for Fear He Would Not Understand
CHAPTER I
I AM CHOSEN INSTEAD OF THE PRAYER MEETING VIRGIN
If you will look back over the files of the "Southern Christian Advocate," published at the time in Macon, Georgia, you will find the following notice—by a singular coincidence on the page devoted to "obituaries": "Married—Mary Elizabeth Eden to William Asbury Thompson. The bride is the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Eden, of Edenton; the groom is the son of the late Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Asbury Thompson, and is serving his first year in the itinerancy on the Redwine Circuit. We wish the young people happiness and success in their chosen field."
"Chosen field" had reference to the itinerancy, not matrimony. And that was my "obituary"