Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from By Ocean Prairie and Peak: Some Gleanings From an Emigrant Chaplain's Log, on Journeys to British Columbia, Manitoba, and Eastern Canada
In a smoke-beaten vicarage, a few hundred yards back from the grey North Sea, emigrants have had farewell talks before starting for new homes in the Far West.
The clatter-clatter of a hundred hammers in the ship-yards of the Wear are faintly heard, and the deep thud-thud of a huge steam-hammer mercilessly shakes that home by night and by day. Yet, when all is still with a Sabbath stillness, the "call" of the tide can at times be heard, and the echoing boom of incoming steamers signalling as they enter the harbour or pass up the Wear.
The incessant strain to body, soul, and spirit of a populous parish, and the constant facing of sorrow and sin, would cause a breakdown if there were not pauses. These pauses - never very long - have from time to time been filled with diverse experiences.
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