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The Minister's Wooing
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1859
- Pages
- Pages 400
The news comes to a New England kitchen that a ship has gone down, and James Marvyn with it, and his mother does the arithmetic her faith requires: her boy died unconverted, and so he is lost forever. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote The Minister's Wooing after her own son drowned at nineteen without professing faith, and the whole novel is her argument with the doctrine that would damn him.
Sorrow is divine. Sorrow is reigning on the throne of the universe, and the crown of all crowns has been one of thorns.
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