A City Boy Goes to the Country as a Methodist Minister

I was a single young man when I went to the country to minister to the rural folks. (In more than a few ways they ministered to me.) A few times I had my fiancée with me. The people liked that. My wife to be was young and sweet and friendly. When she came, she shared a room with Josephine Thorpe who was a single lady taking care of her aging parents. One day Carolyn said to me, “Cleon, after we…