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...Parson Hauff didn't like the sound of this, or so he said, and he asked the voices for further guidance. Take canned food, said the voices, and go. Where? Jerry was told that the best place for fleeing was remote, snake-infested Soledad Canyon, 65 miles from Los Angeles, on the edge of the Southern California desert. He bought 520 acres of it, and founded Eden City-the first, he said, of his "cities of refuge." Two dozen of his elderly parishioners sold their property, handed Jerry the money and headed for safety...
...imagine a parson, young or old," he writes in Time & Tide, "coming . . . to an English village . . . On that first Sunday, his church, for the first and last time of his incumbency, will be nearly full. After the service, the village will be agreed on one point only-that his predecessor was much better...
...will go. . . because going to church means you are Conservative. The bell-ringers may continue because of the pleasure of ringing and because they admire Winston Churchill. The schoolmistress will not go . . . because being semi-educated and class-conscious, she has 'theories' about religion and regards the parson as too dogmatic...
...country parson's cross is heavy with their apathy, and sharp with their hate. He sees his failure round him every day. Only the very few help him to bear it. Small wonder if sometimes he fails...
...opening proposition of this historical novel is one to make fans snuggle comfortably into their armchairs: a mysteriously commanding figure turns up in England one day in 1755 using the patently inappropriate pseudonym, the Rev. Mr. Blandison. Who is Parson Blandison? None other than Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender...