Emphasis Preaching Journal

On the southern fork of Long Island's east end, real estate is of great value. Two fathers understood this, but in differing ways. The first father held title to a vast estate which fronted the Atlantic Ocean, an estate graced with flowered dunes on the seaside and shaded lawn and sunlit gardens on the inland side. Long years of planning and labor had gone into the creation of this estate, and the first father worried constantly that his children would not appreciate or properly care for the grounds on which he had worked so laboriously.