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Quotation from Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
“The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord! I was--I am a minister of the Gospel. Leave him to me”
Captains Courageous, Chapter VII (1897 text)
When the Jennie Cushman's skipper is brought aboard after losing his son, Penn's lost memory and calling return and he speaks with the authority of a pastor, quoting Job 1:21.
Citation: "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord! I was--I am a minister of the Gospel. Leave him to me" — Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous, Chapter VII (1897 text). (id captains-courageous-q3)
Portrait: Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous, first US Edition (1897), Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936), Public domain.
