[To Him That Hath by Ralph Connor]@TWC D-Link bookTo Him That Hath CHAPTER V 3/27
Even yet, with the changes that had taken place, his walk to the Post Office was punctuated with greetings and salutations from his fellow-citizens in whose hearts his twenty-five years of devotion to their well-being, spiritual and physical, had made for him an enduring place. The lady of the Rectory, though some twenty years his junior, yet, by reason of delicate health due largely to the double burden of household cares and parish duties, appeared to be quite of equal age.
Gentle in spirit, frail in body, there seemed to be in her soul something of the quality of tempered steel, yet withal a strain of worldly wisdom mingled with a strange ignorance of the affairs of modern life.
Her life revolved around one centre, her adored husband, a centre enlarged as time went on to include her only son and her two daughters.
All others and all else in her world were of interest solely as they might be more or less closely related to these, the members of her family.
The town and the town folk she knew solely as her husband's parish.
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