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Archbishop of Canterbury who had driven Elijah's
father out of England in the first place. Where the
founding family worshiped, most of their immediate
court inevitably followed, and so, down the centuries, a
rivalry for the souls of the social circle (generations of
Dingleys, Goffs, Dixwells, Ransoms, and Bredforets)
continued to be waged from the pulpits of First
Congregational and St. Andrew's Episcopal. The more
indifferent (or ecumenical) townspeople went to
whichever church was closer or boasted more of their
friends. For these, the later service, shorter sermons,
richer gossip, and more alcoholic coffee hours of St.
Andrew's may have played a part in its greater
popularity. No Dingleyan proper, as opposed to
Madderite, had been a Catholic since 1925, when
Ramona Dingley's father had died in that faith. A few
(like Ramona, A.A. Hayes, Sidney Blossom, and Polly
Hedgerow) attended neither the Low Church on the
green nor the High Church on the hill, nor any other
church anywhere else. And the more indecisive (or
passionate) felt called first by one bell, then another:
Evelyn Troyes had become an Anglican three times and