Through Fear Of Death

A ministerial student’s horror of the dead and the dying is so pronounced that the church authorities refuse to ordain him until he conquers his fear. They assign thirty-one year old Joseph Belder to the pediatrics floor of a research hospital where he is stretched to the limits of his sanity, haunted by the ghosts of children, tormented by his ineffective prayers at saving them.

His wife, Julia, who married Joe when he was a coach, cannot understand his inability to find happiness in his ...