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sleep? Was it His mission to punish as well as
to slay? Was He the Judge as well as the
Executioner? What did He do with those He
had slain? Had they ceased to exist or were
they only asleep? Whither did He take them?
Was He the Supreme Ruler of the Kingdom of
Death or was He only a vassal, a mere tool in the
hands of a far mightier ruler, the Ruler of Life?
He had won to-day, but was His victory to be
final? Who would conquer in the end, He or
Life?
But was it really so that my mission was at an
end when His was to begin? Was I to be an
impassive spectator of the last unequal battle,
to stand by helpless and insensible, while He was
doing His work of destruction? Was I to turn
my face away from those eyes who implored my
help, long after the power of speech had gone?
Was I to loosen my hand from those quivering
fingers who clung to mine like a drowning man
to a straw? I was defeated, but I was not
disarmed, I had still in my hands a powerful weapon.
He had his eternal sleeping-draught but I had
also mine entrusted to me by benevolent Mother
Nature. When he was slow in dealing out His
remedy, why should not I deal out mine with its
merciful power to change anguish into peace,
agony into sleep? Was it not my mission to help
those to die I could not help to live?
The old nun had told me that I was committing
a terrible sin, that Almighty God in His
inscrutable wisdom had willed it so, that the more
suffering He inflicted at the hour of death, the more
forgiving would He be on the Day of Judgment.
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