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the heart; He knows perfectly the evil that
comes within it and from without, He, grace,
all-loving kindness. The hand of the clergyman
trembled: he did not venture to stretch it out,
to pluck a hair from the sinner’s head. And
the tears streamed down from his eyes, like the
waters of grace and love, which quenched the
eternal fire of hell.
The cock then crowed.
"Merciful God! Thou wilt grant her that
peace in the grave which I have not been able
to redeem."
"That I now have!" said the dead; "it
was thy hard words, thy dark, human belief of
God and his creatures, which drove me to thee!
Learn to know mankind; even in the bad there
is a part of God – a part that will conquer and
quench the fire of hell."
And a kiss was pressed on the clergyman’s
lips: – it shone around him. God’s clear, bright
sun shone into the chamber, where his wife,
living, mild, and affectionate, awoke him from a
dream, sent from God!
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