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be very long , and they would remain to see the great man go home from the church . She did not know of Luther ' s recipe for a good preacher , one of the ingredients of which is * that he should know when to make an end . ' The nuns sought the arbour , where the evening breeze refreshed them , and began to sing , each requesting the other to give the earliest notice of the bustle which would mark the dispersion of the people . ' Beautiful ! ' exclaimed Helena , after a frequent repetition . c Now let us try one of our vesper services beside it . It is long since we sang any of them together , Liese . ** 6 We will then presently ; but here is another you have not heard . Join me ; it is very simple . Ah V she resumed , when she had gone over it once , this is not as it ought to be sung . If we could but once hear Martin himself ' * I am ever willing to sing , ' said one who presented himself at the entrance of the arbour . * Music is a fair gift of God , and nearly allied to divinity ; and so think some here who will join me with such skill as they have . * So saying , Luther took the book from the hands of the astonished nuns , and uplifted a voice as powerful and as sweet as it had been described . He was joined by some who stood behind and beside him . Liese and Helena arose to offer their seat to him who was probably wearied with the labours of the day . They had no thought of departing , however . They mingled with the little party of friends who had accompanied their apostle from his church to partake of the hospitality of the Hiisens . Laura ' s mother was nowhere to be seen : she was within , making her domestic arrangements for the entertainment of her honoured guests ; but Laura drew Liese ' s arm within her own , and stood to listen . Liese did not know whether to be pleased or not at all that passed . Instead of the vehement outcries against ancient superstitions , or the solemn assertion of new doctrines with which she
expected Luther would intersperse his conversation , there were sallies of playfulness , and an easy flow of thought and feeling , which would , she thought , have been suitable in any other good and happy man , but which did not at all answer to her conceptions of him who had stirred up all Christendom into an uproar . His references to religious topics were made in the same spirit and tone of expression ; she did not object to their cheerfulness , but she could not understand their freedom . She had learned of
late to be reminded of holy things by that which she saw and heard ; and the habit was growing upon her so much as to convince her that it is much more easy to live a life of devotion , where a free range among the works of God is allowed , than she had once thought , —more easy than in a convent ; but she had never heard such devotional thoughts as are suddenly prompted
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Liese ; or the Progress of Worshi p * 245
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/29/
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