Unseen Hands

Having never known or been told about his father, Thomas struggles to learn howto become a man in the uncertain and tentative years of the Reconstructionfollowing the Civil War. His mother and grandmother show only marginal interest intraining up a child. His instruction is taken up by others in his family, especially hispaternal grandfather, Papaw Wes, a good and devout man who adores him.Thomas is bright, having excelled at the Maxwell Academy, polite, hard-workingand honest, and he seems to do all the right things. Once thrilled at the gift of aBible of his very own, he continues to "go to meetin''" throughout his life. But howmuch of the Bible teaching does Thomas actually embrace? Where does he set hispriorities? There''s no doubt that he grows to be the man his Papaw Wes hoped hewould be...but is something yet lacking?