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Adventures in Contentment
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David Grayson
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And
yet
how
much
pain
he
alleviated
in
this
community--in
forty
years!
The
deep
sense
that
a
man
should
stand
up
to
his
fate
was
one
of
the
key-notes
of
his
character;
and
the
way
he
taught
it,
not
only
by
word
but
by
every
action
of
his
life,
put
heart
into
many
a
weak
man
and
woman,
Mrs.
Patterson,
a
friend
of
ours,
tells
of
a
reply
she
once
had
from
the
Doctor
to
whom
she
had
gone
with
a
new
trouble.
After
telling
him
about
it
she
said:
"I've
left
it
all
with
the
Lord."
"You'd
have
done
better,"
said
the
Doctor,
"to
keep
it
yourself.
Trouble
is
for
your
discipline:
the
Lord
doesn't
need
it."
It
was
thus
out
of
his
wisdom
that
he
was
always
telling
people
what
they
knew,
deep
down
in
their
hearts,
to
be
true.
It
sometimes
hurt
at
first,
but
sooner
or
later,
if
the
man
had
a
spark
of
real
manhood
in
him,
he
came
back,
and
gave
the
Doctor
an
abiding
affection.
There
were
those
who,
though
they
loved
him,
called
him
intolerant.
I
never
could
look
at
it
that
way.
He
did
have
the
only
kind
of
intolerance
which
is
at
all
tolerable,
and
that
is
the
intolerance
of
intolerance.
He
always
set
himself
with
vigour
against
that
unreason
and
lack
of
sympathy
which
are
the
essence
of
intolerance;
and
yet
there
was
a
rock
of
conviction
on
many
subjects
behind
which
he
could
not
be
driven.
It
was
not
intolerance:
it
was
with
him
a
reasoned
certainty
of
belief.
He
had
a
phrase
to
express
that
not
uncommon
state
of
mind
in
this
age
particularly,
which
is
politely
willing
to
yield
its
foothold
within
this
universe
to
almost
any
reasoner
who
suggests
some
other
universe,
however
shadowy,
to
stand
upon.
He
called
it
a
"mush
of
concession."
He
might
have
been
wrong
in
his
convictions,
but
he,
at
least,
never
floundered
in
a
"mush
of
concession."
I
heard
him
say
once:
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