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(1899) [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Selma Ahlström Trotz
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the oasis and the desert 329

Diamante at that time, the answer would have been
that it was the Christ-image. Everything was done
according to its will. No one took a wife, or played
at the lottery, or built a house without consulting it.

Many a stab was not dealt for the sake of the
image, and many an old feud became settled, and
many a bitter word remained unspoken.

One must be good, because it was noticed that
the image aided those that were peaceful and
helpful. For them it procured good gifts of joy and
prosperity.

Now if the world had been, as it should be,
Diamante would soon have become a great and powerful
city. But instead, that part of the world that did
not believe in the image destroyed all its works.
It availed not how many blessings it scattered
about.

The taxes kept growing continually and taking
away with it all wealth. And then there was the
war in Africa. How could any one be happy, when
their sons, money, and donkeys had to go to Africa ?
And the war there went badly, defeat upon defeat.
How could any one be happy when the country’s
honor was at stake ?

Above all it was after the railroad had been
finished that it became noticed that Diamante was
like an oasis in a great desert. The oasis is exposed
to the flying sand of the desert, and robbers and wild
animals. So also Diamante. The oasis ought to
spread itself out over the whole desert in order to
be secure. Diamante began to think that it could
not be happy until the whole world worshiped its
image of Christ.

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