But though her people preached the gospel of love for one’s fellow man, and service to others, somehow, Rebecca noted, Father felt it a shame to accept help from one’s neighbor. Rebecca thought it a perplexing arithmetic problem: take the number of people who are supposed to serve one another, which was everyone, and subtract the number of people who will not be served if they can help it, and you have... But her church family were not troubled by arithmetic. Women brought pots and pots of food. It was all her brothers could do to eat it all. A member of her church might die of despair, but
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