Hardy times
May 29th, 2007 | By Ian Poulton | Category: MinistryI found a book of Thomas Hardy stories as I sorted through the piles of books that still lie around the floor of our new house. The Distracted Preacher has an opening that would have not been an unfamiliar experience for clergy in Ireland even until recent times.
“Something delayed the arrival of the Wesleyan minister, and a young man came temporarily in his stead. It was on the thirteenth of January 183- that Mr. Stockdale, the young man in question, made his humble entry into the village, unknown, and
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