The preacher was dying of consumption. He knew it, and he was not afraid of it. His family and his congregation feared it, and so they wanted him to take things more easily. In fact, the preacher was going to Europe, to drier climes, to ease the trouble in his lungs. It was a journey from which he would not return.
As the story goes, he had attended …
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