Winston Churchill

The Inside of the Cup — Complete


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       Winston Churchill

      The Inside of the Cup — Complete

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066232627

       THE INSIDE OF THE CUP

       Volume 1.

       CHAPTER I. THE WARING PROBLEMS

       CHAPTER II. MR. LANGMAID'S MISSION

       CHAPTER III. THE PRIMROSE PATH

       CHAPTER IV. SOME RIDDLES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

       Volume 2.

       CHAPTER V. THE RECTOR HAS MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT

       CHAPTER VI. “WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT?”

       CHAPTER VII. THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD

       CHAPTER VIII. THE LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE

       Volume 3.

       CHAPTER IX. THE DIVINE DISCONTENT

       I

       CHAPTER X. THE MESSENGER IN THE CHURCH

       CHAPTER XI. THE LOST PARISHIONER

       CHAPTER XII. THE WOMAN OF THE SONG

       Volume 4.

       CHAPTER XIII. WINTERBOURNE

       CHAPTER XIV. A SATURDAY AFTERNOON

       CHAPTER XV. THE CRUCIBLE

       CHAPTER XVI. AMID THE ENCIRCLING GLOOM

       Volume 5.

       CHAPTER XVII. RECONSTRUCTION

       CHAPTER XVIII. THE RIDDLE OF CAUSATION

       CHAPTER XIX. MR. GOODRICH BECOMES A PARTISAN

       Volume 6.

       CHAPTER XX. THE ARRAIGNMENT

       CHAPTER XXI. ALISON GOES TO CHURCH

       CHAPTER XXII. “WHICH SAY TO THE SEERS, SEE NOT”

       Volume 7.

       CHAPTER XXIII. THE CHOICE

       CHAPTER XXIV. THE VESTRY MEETS

       CHAPTER XXV. “RISE, CROWNED WITH LIGHT!”

       CHAPTER XXVI. THE CURRENT OF LIFE

       Volume 8.

       CHAPTER XXVII. RETRIBUTION

       CHAPTER XXVIII. LIGHT

       AFTERWORD

       Table of Contents

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      I

      With few exceptions, the incidents recorded in these pages take place in one of the largest cities of the United States of America, and of that portion called the Middle West—a city once conservative and provincial, and rather proud of these qualities; but now outgrown them, and linked by lightning limited trains to other teeming centers of the modern world: a city overtaken, in recent years, by the plague which has swept our country from the Atlantic to the Pacific—Prosperity. Before its advent, the Goodriches and Gores, the Warings, the Prestons and the Atterburys lived leisurely lives in a sleepy quarter of shade trees and spacious yards and muddy macadam streets, now passed away forever. Existence was decorous, marriage an irrevocable step, wives were wives, and the Authorized Version of the Bible was true from cover to cover. So Dr. Gilman preached, and so they believed.

      Sunday was then a day essentially different from other days—you could tell it without looking at the calendar. The sun knew it,