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The Crucifixion of Philip Strong

CHAPTER I
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I could go there as the pastor of the Elmdale church and preach to an audience of college boys eight months in the year and to about eighty refined, scholarly people the rest of the time.

I could indulge my taste for reading and writing and enjoy a quiet pastorate there to the end of my days." "Then, Philip, I don't see why you don't reply to their call and tell them you will accept; and we will move at once to Elmdale, and live and die there.

It is a beautiful place, and I am sure we could live very comfortably on the salary and the vacation.

There is no vacation mentioned in the other call." "But, on the other hand," continued the minister, almost as if he were alone and arguing with himself, and had not heard his wife's words, "on the other hand, there is Milton, a manufacturing town of fifty thousand people, mostly operatives.

It is the centre of much that belongs to the stirring life of the times in which we live.


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