The Bishop's Mantle — Agnes Sligh Turnbull

The elite society church stood alongside the city's tenements and poverty that only a large city could offer. The parishioners of St. Matthew's were dedicated to themselves and the maintenance of the status quo. Young minister Hilary Laurens, who had found the love of his life within St. Matthew's narrow, aristocratic confines, was about to face the greatest challenge of his career: to win over a church determined to rob him of humanity, and the wife who loved him dearly but shared his congregations' prejudices.