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...doorway and a body hoisted through a window on a stretcher. She has driven a patient to the hospital, been mired in back-country roads, listened while unmarried mothers sobbed out their problems on her shoulder, and heard a girl say, "I'm glad we have a woman pastor-I couldn't have done that if you had been...
...Bartholomew Wyngate stood in the pulpit, outwardly poised, looking at the comfortable, wealthy members of his Brooklyn Heights congregation. They loved and admired him as a good preacher and model citizen. They had no more idea than Pastor Wyngate in that year, 1906, how many of the old Victorian certainties were crumbling. As he intoned his text, "I am the way, the truth, and the life," they settled back for a sermon that would be solid but undisturbing...
...Adam Wyngate is the story of Pastor Wyngate's collapse, and a social novel of changing moral skies in turn-of-the-century America. For Mary O'Hara, author of such western idyls as My Friend Flicka and Thunderhead, it represents an ambitious departure; but she writes of a time and place she knows, since Novelist O'Hara grew up on Brooklyn Heights...
Actually, Pastor Wyngate was nervous as he began his sermon. In the rear of the church sat his older brother Ramsey, and Ramsey was everything that Bart was not: good-looking, self-confident and a bully at heart. Ramsey had turned the head of Bart's wife, Louise, before they were married. What would happen, Bart wondered, now that his brother had turned up again...
Anyone but Pastor Bart could have guessed. And Novelist O'Hara fills his bitter cup to overflowing. Bart came to learn that his wife had not only been unfaithful to him with brother Ramsey, but with a long list of casual characters as well. Bart Wyngate had a nervous breakdown...