The Gauntlet Wingo Saga #1; The Story of a Man Who Sought and Found God

Garden City: Doubleday, 1945. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Near Fine/Good. 5.5"x8"x1". 311 pages. BCE. Red cloth cover. On spine, title in black box on spine. Deckled edge. Printed on light paper due to Government regulations ( on DJ). James Street photo on back. PON on first fly paper. Spine straight, binding tight, slight tone. DJ has small tears and chips along edges and reinforced with archival tape. Not x-library, not clipped. See photos. "London Wingo, an ordained minister and a fourth-year student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is struggling to reconcile his desires for further education with his financial worries that accompany many young couples awaiting the birth of their first child. When he applies for a church in Linden, Missouri, and, accepted by the deacons there, he feels that he has found security for his family. He does not realize that in return for this security the people of Linden expect him to defer to their practices and ideas and will use church law as well as social pressure to ensure conformity.
The struggles of London and his wife Kathie to keep both their church and their spiritual integrity, rise to a powerful climax when Kathie becomes seriously ill. London realizes he must choose between Linden and the people who contributed to their unhappiness and a rich metropolitan parish where he might escape to a contented and more profitable life.
James Street went to a Baptist seminary and had his own church for a few years before devoting himself to writing full-time. It is from his experiences as a young pastor that he can speak so well about the challenges facing London and Kathie Wingo — discord, feuds, rigid mores, lack of privacy, balancing selfless service and a personal life, as well as the maturity and deepening that evolves as one hurls through life's obstacles." Goodreads ***3.61.