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windows to let the ringing pass over the beer. But the most
important of all was what took place when they set the
brew aside to ferment; for then the master himself would
bring a splendid chest, from which he would take heavy
gold rings and chains and precious stones inscribed with
strange signs, and all these would be put into the beer. In
truth, one may well believe that these noble treasures would
impart to it something of their own secret potency given
them by nature.”
“That is not for us to say,” declared Erik Grubbe. “I
have more faith, I own, in the Brunswick hops and the
other herbs they mix.”
“Nay,” said the pastor, “it were wrong to think so,
for there is much that is hidden from us in the realm of
nature,—of that there can be no doubt. Everything,
living or dead, has its miraculum within it, and we need but
patience to seek and open eyes to find. Alas, in the old
days when it was not so long since the Lord had taken his
hands from the earth, then all things were still so engirded
with his power that they exhaled healing and all that was
good for time and eternity. But now the earth is no longer
new nor fine: it is defiled with the sins of many
generations. Now it is only at particular times that these powers
manifest themselves, at certain places and certain seasons,
when strange signs may be seen in the heavens,—as I
was saying to the blacksmith, when we spoke of the awful
flaming light that has been visible in half the heavens for
several nights recently.… That reminds me, a mounted
courier passed us just then; he was bound this way, I think.”
“So he was, Pastor Jens.”
“I hope he rode with none but good tidings?”
“He rode with the tidings that war has been declared.”
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