The other new book start sounded too angry so I've turned to a fiction book based on a real situation. The present title is Tarnished Pulpit. First pass at a synopsis.
Ironton Corner Parish Church is dying. Matthew Henry Stiles, 26 year old working on his Masters of Divinity from Harvard hears of the parish. Being from a wealthy family he comes to Ironton Corners. He refuses to take a salary and lives in two rooms of the church. His ambition is to build Ironton Corner Parish Church into the most prominent Unitarian Parish in the country. Some in this quiet dairy farm and residential community welcome him and the changes he makes; others are irritated by the changes he does to the town.
At the end of his second year at the church the Unitarians refuse to ordain him. The parish ordains him. He agrees to stay for years if he is made the president and sole person in charge of church trusts and other moneys.
The various Trusts amount to $394,000 when he takes charge in 1968. By 1975 the Trust balances are zero and the parish is indebted to local banks for another $250,000.
A lawsuit looms over his head for $474,000 brought my seven families of the New England Academy for defrauding parents and other sealed charges in regard to the students.
Stiles sells government artifacts and other loaned collections and is arrested and convicted.
A lawsuit looms over his head for $474,000 brought my seven families of the New England Academy for defrauding parents and other sealed charges in regard to the students. He is found guilty but then disappears.
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