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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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their best clothes went to church, and looked
so pleased. Yes, there was something so
pleasant in everything: it was indeed so fine
and warm a day, that one might well say: "Our
Lord is certainly unspeakably good towards us
poor mortals!"

But the clergyman stood in the pulpit in
the church, and spoke so loud and so angrily!
He said that mankind was so wicked, and
that God would punish them for it, and that
when they died, the wicked went down into
hell, where they would burn for ever; and he
said that their worm would never die, and their
fire never be extinguished, nor would they ever
get rest and peace!

It was terrible to hear, and he said it so
determinedly. He described hell to them as a
pestilential hole, where all the filthiness of the
world flowed together. There was no air except
the hot, sulphureous flames; there was no
bottom; they sank and sank into everlasting
silence! It was terrible, only to hear about it;
but the clergyman said it right honestly out of


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