`` I 'm glad clean down to my boot soles to see you back again , '' she said . `` He 's back for good , '' said Miss Salome . `` Chester , you 'd better go in and study up your lessons for tomorrow . '' The Strike at Putney The church at Putney was one that gladdened the hearts of all the ministers in the presbytery whenever they thought about it . It was such a satisfactory church . While other churches here and there were continually giving trouble in one way or another , the Putneyites were never guilty of brewing up internal or presbyterial strife . The Exeter church people were always quarrelling among themselves and carrying their quarrels to the courts of the church . The very name of Exeter gave the members of presbytery the cold creeps . But the Putney church people never quarrelled . Danbridge church was in a chronic state of ministerlessness . No minister ever stayed in Danbridge longer than he could help . The people were too critical , and they were also noted heresy hunters . Good ministers fought shy of Danbridge , and poor ones met with a chill welcome . The harassed presbytery , worn out with `` supplying , '' were disposed to think that the millennium would come if ever the Danbridgians got a minister whom they liked . At Putney they had had the same minister for fifteen years and hoped and expected to have him for fifteen more . They looked with horror-stricken eyes on the Danbridge theological coquetries . Bloom Valley church was over head and heels in debt and had no visible prospect of ever getting out . The moderator said under his breath that they did over-much praying and too little hoeing . He did not believe in faith without works . Tarrytown Road kept its head above water but never had a cent to spare for missions or the schemes of the church .
In bright and shining contradistinction to these the Putney church had always paid its way and gave liberally XXXXX all departments of church work .
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