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The reader had the discretion to announce nothing that was very new or strange to the two friends , and the family audience the kindness to show no wonder at their presence . The tone of natural petition and ardent praise in which the devotions of the kneeling household were offered , struck on the hearts of the strangers who did not kneel ; but that which affected them beyond restraint was the closing hymn . Neither of them had hearrd other music than that of birds since their own choir had been broken
up . Snatches of their sacred chorusses had recurred a thousand times to each ; but having no heart to sing their own songs in a strange land of heresy , they had never given voice to these fleeting melodies . The hymn they now heard , slow , solemn , and harmonious , melted them with mingled emotions , the most distinguishable of which was shame at having disbelieved that heretics could offer true worship . From this hour , Liese was subject to no self-complainings of the tedium of her days , the monotony of her prayers , or the want of sympathy in her religious emotions . Helena helped her to find objects of charity , and the benevolent affections thus exercised gave life to her prayers . The three friends read the gospel together , and Laura ' s power of illustrating many passages which contained no disputed doctrine , and were therefore approachable , rendered her assistance so valuable , that a common interest in the study was soon established , and topics for religious converse abounded from day to day . Still much was wanting to the happiness of Liese . She experienced the common lot of humanity , that as soon as one trouble is surmounted , another arises * Her heart still throbbed with painful emotions of unkindness towards heretics in general , though she had learned to make exceptions in
favour of the Hiisens , and to hear the name of Martin Lufher with a sensation of awe almost as powerful as her curiosity . That curiosity led her now to court every mention of his name , to obtain the minutest information from any one who had seen him , of his countenance , manner , mode of preaching , employments and recreations , that she might reconcile the reports of opposite parties , and account for the fact that the same man was idolized by some and abhorred by others , who pretended to know him equally welL In answer to her inquiries , Liese obtained so many anecdotes of the suavity of his domestic manners , of the playfulness of his conversation , the disinterested warmth of his friendships , that she could not avoid making this prince of heretics another exception to her anathema against the body , —a pretty sure sign that her orthodoxy had changed its character as well as its forms of manifestation . But here her charity ended . She took pains to feel no pity for the martyrs , whose sufferings and constancy made an occasional appeal to her sympathies . She would not look upon the sickness and poverty of heretics , because she was uncertain whether their afflictions might not be judg ~
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242 Liese ; Qr , the Progress of Worship *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/26/
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