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A historical novel from the author of "The Honorable Senator
Sage-Brush," "The Cruise of the Cuttlefish," and "The Grafters."
A historical novel from the author of "The Honorable Senator
Sage-Brush," "The Cruise of the Cuttlefish," and "The Grafters."
The revival in Paradise Valley, conducted by the Reverend Silas
Crafts, of South Tredegar, was in the middle of its second week,
and the field-to use Brother Crafts' own word-was white to the
harvest. Little Zoar, the square, weather-tinged wooden church at
the head of the valley, built upon land donated to the denomination
in times long past by an impenitent but generous Major Dabney,
stood a little way back from the pike in a grove of young pines. By
half-past six of the June evening the revivalist's congregation had
begun to assemble. Those who came farthest were first on the
ground; and by the time twelve-year-old Thomas Jefferson, spatting
barefooted up the dusty pike, had reached the church-house with the
key, there was a goodly sprinkling of unhitched teams in the grove,
the horses champing their feed noisily in the wagon-boxes, and the
people gathering in little neighborhood knots to discuss gravely
the one topic uppermost in all minds-the present outpouring of
grace on Paradise Valley and the region round-about.
Francis Lynde (1856-1930) wrote fiction set in the Carolinas
concerned with mining and western expansion.
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