Lucy Klinck Rice Hosea
Published: 2016-07-22
Total Pages: 288
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Excerpt from Eastward, or a Buddhist Lover: A Novel His father had been too closely engaged in weighing out sugar and coffee on small profits to hunt up the genealogy of his family; and his mother, poor soul, had never known the time when her arms were free from encircling a (young Livingston, whose baby necessities absorbe her entire attention. How Gerald came to be registered as a theologue was in this wise: Mr. Livingston, Sr., had quite a family of sons growing up around him and, fearing he could not give them all the personal attention their morals demanded, determined, as Gerald was the eldest and had already shown some symptoms of lounging, to make of him a minister of the gospel. By this means he hoped to show to the younger scions a healthy moral example and at the same time secure an element of savin grace in his own behalf. For, he reasoned, if send my son into the Lord's vineyard, it will surely inure to my own advantage, as well as to that of my whole family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
