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The Voice by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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man or the old man?"

"Oh no, father. I love--one of
them."

"Then why not go to his church?
Either minister can give you the seeds
of salvation; one not less than the
other. Why not sit under either ministry?"
"I don't know," Philippa said, faintly.
And indeed she did not know why
she absented herself. She only knew
two things: that the young man seemed
to disapprove of the old man; and when
she saw the young man in the pulpit,
impersonal and holy, she suffered.
Therefore she would not go to hear
either man.

When Dr. Lavendar came to call upon
her father, he used to glance at Philippa
sometimes over his spectacles while
Henry Roberts was arguing about prophecies;
but he never asked her why she
stayed away from church; instead, he
talked to her about John Fenn, and he
seemed pleased when he heard that the
young man was doing his duty in
making pastoral calls. "And I--I,
unworthy as I was!" Henry Roberts
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