them pass. The reasons for such discouragement are many, but some of them, at least, overlap with Tom’s self-doubt, guilty conscience, sense of failure, long hours, and growing frustration with apparent fruitlessness. Some reflection on these matters some four and a half decades after the events will not only put some of Tom’s comments into perspective but may help discouraged ministers of the gospel today. (1) Dad had a view of work that sprang in part from the Great Depression: anything less than