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more used than mine . O , why have we not told one another every thing as we used to do ?' 4 I will tell you now , Helena . My cousin Laura repeated something out of this book , one day long ago , —the first day I went to see you . I wished to find it again , but something always stopped me . There was always something else that I wanted to read wherever I opened ; so I began at the beginning , and I found what I wanted , and now I have got so far . ' * Do you mean to finish it ? If you do , we may as well read together . We will have no secrets from one another henceforth . ' « Tell me then , Helena , how you make your prayers . Are they like our other prayers ?' ' O no , not at all . When I ask any of the new things I want , I pray to God only , because the saints cannot help me in them . If I want to be forgiven , or to have more of the true faith , I use my old prayers to Mary and the saints , because they will intercede for me ; but when I want that nurse should not die , or that Wilhelm should be better , or when I am very thankful for being so happy , and for every body loving me , 1 speak to God himself , as every body seems to have done who was taught by Christ himself . I should like very much to hear some of Martin ' s prayers ; for he prays in this way . But now tell me , Liese , how vou urav . '
' Just in your way , except that I am not so happy , and have not so many people to pray for . I wish I had ; but I cannot help the sick and the poor , because all who are within my reach are heretics . I am afraid there are very few of the right faith left in Nuremberg ; and I am sure I do not know how to find them out . ' * I will help you , Liese ; and if you will come to me , I will take you to see Wilhelm , and two or three more people who want nursing and help very much . Here comes Laura / 6 put away the book 1 ' cried Liese . Helena delayed , to ask why , and then it was too late . Laura ' s quick eye observed where it was opened , and she remarked that this was the very portion which her father was presently going to read in the family . The time for reserve being past , and Liese ' s secret no longer in her own keeping , she owned that she should much like to hear the bible read by somebody else sometimes , but feared the commentary with which she knew Laura ' s father was wont to accompany the text . He did not always expound , however , it now appeared , and his daughter was sure he would refrain from doing so , if Liese were present . Laura ' s greatest surprise was to find how easily the objection that he used prayers of Luther ' s was got over . The nuns just observed that they need not join in these prayers , and made no further difficulty , but went down with Laura 'when , the summons for family worship was heard , 3 f
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Liese ; or > the Progress of Worship . 241
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/25/
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