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Title: Working in the Shade
Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping

Author: Theodore P Wilson

Illustrator: F. A. F.

Release Date: April 18, 2007 [EBook #21134]

Language: English

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Working in the Shade; or, Lowly Sowing Brings Glorious Reaping

by the Reverend Theodore P Wilson
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When he wrote "Frank Oldfield" some ten years before this book, and won
a literary prize with it, Wilson showed that he was an author who could
write a good story round a moral theme, and hold his readers' attention.

This is just such a book. You could look at it as no more than a very
hard-hitting sermon on the theme of Selfishness, but it is well-written
enough, with various episodes of selfishness leading to disaster, and
unselfishness leading heavenwards.

It is not a long book, and it will not take you long to read this book,
or listen to it. It is well-written, and it will surely make a good
impression upon you, and give you food for thought. NH
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WORKING IN THE SHADE; OR, LOWLY SOWING BRINGS GLORIOUS REAPING

BY THE REVEREND THEODORE P WILSON

CHAPTER ONE.

THE NEW-COMER.

Curiosity was on tiptoe in the small country-town of Franchope and the
neighbourhood when it was settled without a doubt that Riverton Park was
to be occupied once more.

Park House, which was the name of the mansion belonging to the Riverton
estate, was a fine, old, substantial structure, which stood upon a
rising ground, and looked out upon a richly undulating country, a
considerable portion of which belonged to the property.

The house was situated in the centre of an extensive park, whose groups
and avenues of venerable trees made it plain that persons of
consideration had long been holders of the estate. But for the last
twenty years Riverton Park had been a mystery and a desolation. No one
had occupied the house during that t