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This book is very large, with many movements describing the different aspects of a man’s life. Now here is the final selection, a man’s life—in brief, in sum—from beginning to end.
Clarence E. Glover was a man: a father, husband, neighbor, and friend. From family to work, to faith, to service to polis and country, and even to hobbies and leisure, Clarence Glover lived as a man should.
He was well off and well known in his community—not fabulously rich or famous—but he lived a life that every man can and ought. From the prosaic prose of his obituary to the eloquence of his funeral sermon, this selection captures Clarence Glover’s entire journey through life, from birth to death.
One story in particular is evidence of the type of man Clarence Glover was. On the bed where Clarence slept beside Dorothy, his wife of thirty-nine years, was a white tapestry bedspread. As he went to his knees every night and in times of need, Clarence rested his arms in the same spot on the bedspread. Over the course of many years, the bedspread was worn down from the pressure of his arms in prayer. When Clarence died suddenly at age sixty-four, his daughters, Elayne and Diane, and his son, Elliott, found great comfort in praying in their father’s “place” on that bedspread. Now ninety-two, Dorothy has never parted with that bed covering.
Clarence E. Glover was my father-in-law.