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Winston Churchill
The Inside of the Cup — Complete
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066232627
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE WARING PROBLEMS
CHAPTER II. MR. LANGMAID'S MISSION
CHAPTER III. THE PRIMROSE PATH
CHAPTER IV. SOME RIDDLES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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
CHAPTER IX. THE DIVINE DISCONTENT
CHAPTER X. THE MESSENGER IN THE CHURCH
CHAPTER XI. THE LOST PARISHIONER
CHAPTER XII. THE WOMAN OF THE SONG
CHAPTER XIV. A SATURDAY AFTERNOON
CHAPTER XVI. AMID THE ENCIRCLING GLOOM
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RIDDLE OF CAUSATION
CHAPTER XIX. MR. GOODRICH BECOMES A PARTISAN
CHAPTER XXI. ALISON GOES TO CHURCH
CHAPTER XXII. “WHICH SAY TO THE SEERS, SEE NOT”
CHAPTER XXIV. THE VESTRY MEETS
CHAPTER XXV. “RISE, CROWNED WITH LIGHT!”
CHAPTER XXVI. THE CURRENT OF LIFE
THE INSIDE OF THE CUP
Volume 1.
CHAPTER I. THE WARING PROBLEMS
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,