"The minister is said to have been a particularly good, pious, conscientious man. A sad story is told about him. One night he awoke in his home to hear the sound of a burglar breaking in. He lay quietly in the darkness until he was certain as to the cause of the noise. Then, drawing a revolver, the minister fired into the blackness of the room, with the single intention of scaring the burglar away. Instead, the bullet sped true to its unseen, unintended mark and killed a" [servant] "who was trying to rob the clergyman's home. While of course the reverend gentleman was exonerated by law, his own keen conscience would give him no peace.
" 'To think,' he said, 'that my mission in life has been to save souls, and I have sent into eternity a soul so utterly unprepared to face its Maker.'
"The good old man could find no respite from his morbid, brooding thoughts. He suffered from a restlessness beyond his power to control. No matter how much he was liked in a parish where he was serving, he would soon resign and move elsewhere. He was unable to remain in any place very long until at last he lay in his grave in Blandford."
Source: Excerpt from Home to the Cockade City, By H. Clifford Harrison
" 'To think,' he said, 'that my mission in life has been to save souls, and I have sent into eternity a soul so utterly unprepared to face its Maker.'
"The good old man could find no respite from his morbid, brooding thoughts. He suffered from a restlessness beyond his power to control. No matter how much he was liked in a parish where he was serving, he would soon resign and move elsewhere. He was unable to remain in any place very long until at last he lay in his grave in Blandford."
Source: Excerpt from Home to the Cockade City, By H. Clifford Harrison
"The minister is said to have been a particularly good, pious, conscientious man. A sad story is told about him. One night he awoke in his home to hear the sound of a burglar breaking in. He lay quietly in the darkness until he was certain as to the cause of the noise. Then, drawing a revolver, the minister fired into the blackness of the room, with the single intention of scaring the burglar away. Instead, the bullet sped true to its unseen, unintended mark and killed a" [servant] "who was trying to rob the clergyman's home. While of course the reverend gentleman was exonerated by law, his own keen conscience would give him no peace.
" 'To think,' he said, 'that my mission in life has been to save souls, and I have sent into eternity a soul so utterly unprepared to face its Maker.'
"The good old man could find no respite from his morbid, brooding thoughts. He suffered from a restlessness beyond his power to control. No matter how much he was liked in a parish where he was serving, he would soon resign and move elsewhere. He was unable to remain in any place very long until at last he lay in his grave in Blandford."
Source: Excerpt from Home to the Cockade City, By H. Clifford Harrison
" 'To think,' he said, 'that my mission in life has been to save souls, and I have sent into eternity a soul so utterly unprepared to face its Maker.'
"The good old man could find no respite from his morbid, brooding thoughts. He suffered from a restlessness beyond his power to control. No matter how much he was liked in a parish where he was serving, he would soon resign and move elsewhere. He was unable to remain in any place very long until at last he lay in his grave in Blandford."
Source: Excerpt from Home to the Cockade City, By H. Clifford Harrison
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