About this story
Walking home from a bruising meeting over money, you follow an injured workman's family into a Catholic household you were raised to distrust. Father Forbes receives you with unexpected warmth, and a young woman at the door introduces herself as Celia Madden, the organist your church insists it doesn't have.
How it opens
The crowded Methodist church waited while the Bishop unfolded another year of appointments.
Alice WareTecumseh heard your sermon and asked for you; surely that carries weight.
Its wealthy congregation wanted a fashionable young preacher for an equally modern building.
BishopTecumseh's First Church will receive Brother Abram G. Tisdale.
Reverend TisdaleProvidence moves ministers without consulting either ambition or applause.
Choose
A desired pulpit cannot become a promise merely because people praise one sermon.
Wherever we are sent, we begin with work rather than rank.