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old pews, destroying the ugly pictures and plaster
saints, for setting new glass into the broken
windows and having all the church whitewashed. There
was no reason why he should not do this if he
wished. If he wanted to appease the anger of the
Almighty, it was right he should decorate His
temple as well as he knew how. But why should he want
to be praised for it?
Coming thither with unrepented harshness on
his conscience, he ought to have knelt on the stool
of repentance and prayed his sisters and brothers
in the church to cry to God that He might endure
him in His sanctuary. It would have been better
for him if he had stood there as a poor sinner,
instead of sitting honored and blessed in the choir,
being praised because he wanted to be reconciled
to God.
Oh, Count, He has certainly awaited you at the
stool of repentance. He will not be deceived because
men dare not censure you. He is still the jealous
God, who makes the stones testify when men are
silent.
When the service was over and the last hymn
sung, no one left the church; the pastor mounted
the pulpit to express the thanks of the people.
But he did not get so far as that. For the doors
opened, and the old saints came back into the church
again, dripping with water from the Löfven,
covered with green mire and brown mud. They must
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