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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