[Gladys, the Reaper by Anne Beale]@TWC D-Link bookGladys, the Reaper CHAPTER XXVII 19/20
He would have found abundance to love and respect in the man who left the luxury, science, learning and refinement of England, in that most wonderful of all ages, to labour amongst the refuse of her people in the largest of her colonies.
For Mr Jones had seen but little, during his twenty years of Australian life, of the better portion of Australian settlers, or the grandeur of her cities.
He had devoted himself to those who had no means of gaining religious teaching elsewhere and he thanked God that the years of his ministry had not been without abundance of those fruits in which the heart of the laborious worker in Christ's vineyard rejoices. When Mr Jones left the farm the following morning, it was with a promise to pay it another visit at no very distant period.
He took away with him a letter to Rowland, which was to introduce the brother, clergymen to each other.
As he shook Mr Prothero by the hand, he thanked him warmly for his hospitality, and then abruptly added, 'Take care of that young girl Gladys.
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