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(1868) [MARC] Author: Fredrika Bremer Translator: Emily Nonnen With: Charlotte Bremer
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400 SKETCHES.

It was a strange feeling for the widow (and for another
person, too, in the church), when they heard the young
clergyman’s first words : —

“ Why are we to live?”

She could not help stealing a hasty glance at Anders,
and she saw that he looked up at the clergyman in aston-
ishment, as if he had said this to him personally.

And he did so, for he spoke to all as well as to himself.
And especially he spoke to all the poor, all whom in the
world are called lowly and simple. He showed how the
Saviour had let Himself be born like one of them, in
order to wander amongst them, to show them what they
should live for, and how beautiful life is here and still more
hereafter, in eternity, if we follow Him and become one
with Him, and through Him with God. When he then
spoke of this life, how great it could be, even in the lowliest
cottage; how every, even apparently insignificant, human
being could through his life labor for God’s kingdom, and
for the advent of that glory for which we all long, and how
every one could in this labor follow the heavenly Redeemer,
“as mother, sister, or brother,” and afterwards be received
in the heavenly mansions, where they shall see His glory, —
then this little life appeared so great, so rich, so wonderful,
and so full of the future and of happiness, that the widow
when she heard it (and she thought that she had never be-
fore understood it so) thanked God for having been born,
and for being allowed to live for so beautiful and great an
aim. She felt at this moment as if nothing could be too
difficult for her any more. That every trouble has a change;
that is certain. God’s goodness and glory lasted eternally ;
that was likewise certain. And the young clergyman spoke
of this with a joy which lit up his whole face, so that it ap-
peared to the widow like an angel’s.

When the sermon was finished, she felt an impulse to
_ turn her head towards Anders, and then she saw also his
eyes bright, as she had never seen them before. It was as
if a light had been lit within him.

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