The Reverend Robert Bruce Farrar is rector of the wealthiest church in his city, admired as a scholar and preacher by the mill-owners who fill its pews. When a bitter strike divides the town, his sermons begin to question the system that pays his salary, his vestry objects, and the quarrels between capital, labour and socialism reach into his own household.
A thoughtful American novel of faith and industrial conflict, for readers interested in the social gospel era. Download the free EPUB.