The Dwelling Place of Light  Published: 1917 Language: English
Wordcount: 139,772 / 408 pg Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 53 LoC
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his arrival in Hampton. The building, indeed, was symbolic of a
decadent and bewildered Puritanism in its pathetic attempt to
keep abreast with the age, to compromise with anarchy, merely
achieving a nondescript medley of rounded, knob-like towers
covered with mulberry-stained shingles. And the minister was
sensational and dramatic. He looked like an actor, he aroused in
Edward Bumpus an inherent prejudice that condemned the stage.
Half a block from this tabernacle stood a Roman Catholic Church,
prosperous, brazen, serene, flaunting an eternal permanence
amidst the chaos which had succeeded permanence!  There were, to
be sure, other Protestant churches where Edward Bumpus and his
wife might have gone. One in particular, which he passed on his
way to the mill, with its terraced steeple and classic facade,
preserved all th