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spirits would be too much for you . They were even for me , though I cannot feel so melancholy as you do . ' * Where have you been , and what have you been doing ?' They made me go out with them upon the walls to trace the different ways we shall be travelling to-morrow . It really was a
beautiful evening , and I never saw the plain look so smiling , or its winding roads so tempting . How early the buds are bursting this year , as if it was on purpose to make our journey pleasant ! Sister Catherine says , she never saw the woods with a green tinge upon them so early , and that they will be in full leaf before she has done travelling through them . Her way lies east , and we could not trace it far among the mountains . You may guess
which way I looked . ' ' And did you see Nuremberg ?' ' I could just distinguish its towers far , far away . I own it did make me tremble to think of the space we have to cross before we shall be safely housed again . But with you beside me I shall not be afraid of any thing . ' Liese smiled mournfully on her young companion .
* The greatest danger of all , however , ' said Helena , * is one in which we could not help one another . Father Gottfried says , that the heretics in Saxony are becoming more and more violent , and that he thinks they may very likely come here . Carlostadius was lately at Hamburg , and his followers collected there , and
went over the whole province , pulling down the altars , and unroofing the churches , and burning the books and priests' robes . There have been threaten ings of such violence in this neighbourhood ; and what should we do , Liese , if our way was lighted by burning churches ?'
' Cast ourselves into the flames , ' cried Liese , fervently . ' Not quite so / said Helena . * I would rather turn aside , and not see the sacrilege I could not prevent . But it would make our journey fearful . ' * Dread it not , Helena . Franconia is quiet , at present , and will probably remain so , since the adversary does not meet with the checks he has to encounter in the north . But is it not strange
that he who stirred up all this confusion should have disappeared so suddenly , while the tumult waxes greater as if he were still present to excite it ?' ' He is present , ' said Helena . ' Books which no other man could write , appear from time to time . No one knows whence they come , or how they make their way ; but none doubt that they are his , and his followers own them and act upon them . Father Gottfried says , the Evil One has made Martin invisible for a while , that he may escape the arm of the Holy See . But Mother Church cannot be long baffled ; and if ever there was virtue in a papal bull , or an emperor ' s edict , the decrees of Worms cannot be long evaded > and Martin will burn , body and soul ,
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156 Liese ; or the Progress of Worship *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/12/
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