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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Ministrations of the Rev
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"While we feel that Dr.
McTeague's mind is in admirable condition for clerical work we fear that professorial duties might strain it.

In order to get the full value of his remarkable intelligence, we propose to elect him to the governing body of the university.

There his brain will be safe from any shock.

As a professor there would always be the fear that one of his students might raise a question in his class.

This of course is not a difficulty that arises in the pulpit or among the governors of the university." "Of course not," said Mr.Newberry.
* * * * * Thus was constituted the famous union or merger of the churches of St.
Asaph and St.Osoph, viewed by many of those who made it as the beginning of a new era in the history of the modern church.
There is no doubt that it has been in every way an eminent success.
Rivalry, competition, and controversies over points of dogma have become unknown on Plutoria Avenue.


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