This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... to bring Looseley into greater prominence, for he was a man of superior education and intelligence, and one who certainly had not hitherto exerted his fair influence in the Church. He was hoping for great things from Looseley's support, when this terrible discovery not only drew the chemist further into the background ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... to bring Looseley into greater prominence, for he was a man of superior education and intelligence, and one who certainly had not hitherto exerted his fair influence in the Church. He was hoping for great things from Looseley's support, when this terrible discovery not only drew the chemist further into the background, but embittered the relations between the two most active deacons. In this emergency he was led to Barcroft, because he was the only one of the old diaconate on whom he thought he could rely, and also because he was anxious to know and to understand him more thoroughly. Barcroft, as we have seen, was a farmer and cattle-dealer, leading, socially, a very retired life at Henchcombe, a large farm two miles out of the town. He came into Wakefordhridge on Sunday mornings, but never in the evening, except on the first Sunday of the month, when the Lord's supper was administered: occasionally he attended the week-evening service, which in Goodrich's later days was a prayer-meeting, but he could never be prevailed on to engage in prayer. He was a liberal supporter of the chapel, and gave freely, without being solicited. He was a quiet, self-contained man, though far from morose or distrustful of his fellow-men. He had one soft spot in his heart, which children could reach, and this was accounted for by the fact that he had had one little boy who had died when he was five years old. It was the death of this little fellow that had made him go softly; it was he, too, who had unlocked the quiet man's heart, which had remained open ever since to children. It was not that God had given him this son to dote upon five years, and had then removed him (though that would have been sorrowful enough), but it was the circumstance of the child's death and its conse...
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