“You don’t mind my being absolutely frank, do you?” continued Baxter after a somewhat awkward silence. “It’s years since I spoke to anyone about such things, and I really want to know.”

“To know what?” and the young minister looked at him wonderingly.

“Whether what you preach has any real meaning to you.”

“Why, hasn’t it to you?”

“Not a bit,” replied Baxter.

Joseph Hocking was a Cornish novelist and United Methodist Free Church minister. Like the American Presbyterian minister Edward Roe, Hocking’s novels combine rich characters with gripping stories. Joseph Hocking published more than 100 books and was greatly respected as a fiction writer. Hocking passed this life in 1937.

Publication Information

• Lutheran Library edition first published: 2019-12-26
• Copyright: CC BY 4.0