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chain was k > 6 g enough to allow her a certain range round the hut , -instead of confining her closely . She was accordingly going to -enter * when the abbess seized hold of her with a cry of terror . laese pointed to the fetters and was about to explain : but her superior went on exclaiming , ' Avoid her ! avoid her ! she is possessed ' . c Possessed , mother ! how do you know ?*
€ Her husband was burned for heresy , and she has been possessed from that hour . Satan entered into her when the pile was kindled ;—a fearful warning , my daughter , and one which I brought you hither to behold . The warning was , however , lost upon them . Liese gently approached the sufferer and took her hand , and seated herself beside her , while Helena desired the servant who attended to
hasten for fuel , food , and clothes . The counter-orders of the abbess , however , coidd not be disobeyed , and Helena must go herself or no one . Helena looked to Liese for guidance . * Go , ' said Liese , firmly ; ' her pulse is fluttering , her eyes are glazed , she is utterly exhausted . There can be no doubt in such a case . Go , quickly . The abbess feigned to depart by another way , and leave Liese alone with the maniac ; but neither did she thus prevail ; and finding she did not , she had the grace to remain within sight , and see what became of her spiritual daughter , when thus left to contend with Satan :
Nothing ^ very tremendous happened . By sunset , the sufferer was nourished with warm food , cleaned , clothed , and quietly laid on a couch , something softer than the one she had occupied so long . She never spoke , but smiled when Liese bade her farewell , and promised to return in the morning . The abbess soon found silence the most dignified part she could choose , as her admonitions , though meekly received , produced no
effect * She had gone too far in her representations of the danger of assisting an heretical outcast ; for Liese knew that sentences of excommunication had lost much of their power , and neither apprehended any danger to herself from her act of charity , nor despaired of finding some , whether orthodox or heretical , who would carry on her work when she must leave it , and afford the sufferer more aid than the authorities troubled themselves to provide .
She was meditating on this while equipping herself for her walk , to the hut the next morning early , when the abbess appeared with horror in her countenance , and announced that immediate preparations for departure must be made : she could not remain Another night within the walls of Saalberg . What had happened ? -Could they be in danger of persecution from the reformers ? Had jthe disturbances so condemned by Luther commenced anew ? No ; jt wai . aometbjng worae th&p any of these things .. Martin him-
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< S 3 $ . Litse ; or , the Progress of Worship ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/38/
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