{"product_id":"the-keys-of-the-kingdom","title":"The Keys of the Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy A. J. Cronin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFather Francis Chisholm \u003c\/b\u003eis a good priest—somewhat peculiar, perhaps, but a good priest all the same. Forged as a youth in the fires of suffering and tragedy, Francis accepts his vocation and strives to serve his people in humility and good humor, with compassion and courageous heart. After two spiritually eventful but conventionally unsuccessful assignments as a curate, Father Chisholm is sent as a missionary to China. Upon arrival, he finds his mission in ruins: the property deserted, the chapel roofless, the house reduced to rubble. For thirty-five years, Father Chisholm ministers to his people in spirit and body, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, and leading souls out of sin and into Christ’s own life—enduring throughout the onslaughts of poverty and plague, greed and indifference, famine and war.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRecognized as the best of A. J. Cronin’s novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Keys of the Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003ehas been lauded since 1941 as a “magnificent story of the great adventure of individual goodness” and a “subtle and spiritual story…told with warmth and vitality.” Yet its supreme accomplishment is the credibility with which it portrays the truth that suffering is a promise of Christ and this life but a preparation for the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eChrist to Peter, in Matthew 16:19)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. J. Cronin \u003c\/b\u003e(1896–1981) was a Scottish doctor and novelist. Achieving wide popu­larity with his socially-conscience stories, most of them medical in subject or religious in theme, Cronin routinely made the bestseller lists over the course of his almost-fifty-year literary career. He is best-known for his National Book Award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eThe Citadel \u003c\/i\u003e(1937) and \u003ci\u003eThe Keys of the Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003e(1941).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 334pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953454\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100040552815,"sku":"978-1685953454","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1104.jpg?v=1781124933","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/the-keys-of-the-kingdom","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}