[What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Necessity Knows CHAPTER I 2/9
He was talking to a member of his congregation who had called to ask advice and sympathy concerning some carking domestic care.
The advice had already been given, and the clergyman proceeded to give the sympathy in the form above. His listener was a sickly-looking man, who held by the hand a little boy of five or six years.
The child, pale and sober, regarded with incessant interest the prosperous and energetic man who was talking to its father. "Yes, yes," replied the troubled visitor, "yes, there's some help for the big troubles, but none for the small--you're right there." "No," said the other, "I did not say there was no help.
It is just those complex difficulties for which we feel the help of our fellow-men is inadequate that ought to teach us to find out how adequate is the help of the Divine Man, our Saviour, to all our needs." "Yes, yes," said the poor man again, "yes, I suppose what you say is true." But he evidently did not suppose so.
He sidled to the door, cap in hand. The clergyman said no more.
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