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Colestock, Henry Thomas. Ministry of David Baldwin. †$1.50. Crowell.
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David Baldwin, a young minister, just out of the divinity school, receives a call to a conservative pulpit in a Minnesota town, one condition being stipulated, viz., that he shall take with him a wife. He fulfills the letter of the call, and enters upon a mission full of stress and opposition. The pillars of his church denounce his ideas on the inspiration of the Bible, evolution and the higher criticism as unsound. How he holds to his principles and wins out in the conflict furnishes an interesting solution to a present day problem.