To Him That Hath

A piercing study of grief and the guilt of survival. David Aldrich, a writer who has accomplished nothing while his friend Reverend Philip Morton transformed countless lives, learns that Morton has died. The news throws David into an existential crisis: he is mourners at a funeral for a man who mattered, a man who left the world better, while he himself has produced nothing of worth. As David prepares to honor his mentor, he must confront the stark contrast between their lives and the question that haunts him: what right has a failure to grieve a success? Leroy Scott's 1911 novel examines the peculiar cruelty of outliving someone who outshone you, and the moral weight of legacy. This is a book for anyone who has ever felt they lived a smaller life than they were promised, and wondered whether they have anything worth offering to the dead.