The Responsibility Of Belief
Gospel Sermons For Sundays After Pentecost (Middle Third)
The time was the reconstruction period following the great American Civil War. The place was a small southern town. To that setting John Sommersby returned home, at least it seemed to be him. Everyone thought that Sommersby had died in the great war between the Union and the Confederacy; all the other soldiers had returned home quite some time ago. He appeared to be different, but then people said that such a war changed a person in more than mind and spirit. He recognized his friends, however, and they recognized him; the whole town celebrated.
