My Neighbors - Stories of the Welsh People by Caradoc Evans
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page 78 of 135 (57%)
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"You have all erred." "May be there is one righteous among the Nonconformists," said Moses; "will the just God destroy him?" "The one righteous is humbled, and I have warned him to keep my commandments." "The sown seed brought forth a prayer," Moses pleaded; "will not the just God wait for the harvest?" "My Lord is just," Paul announced. "They who gather wickedness shall not escape the judgment, nor shall the blind instructor be held blameless." Moreover Paul said: "The Welsh Nonconformists have been informed of you as is proved by the man who confessed his transgressions. It is a good thing for me that I am not of the Prophets." "I'll be your comfort, Paul," the Prophets murmured, "that you have done this to our hurt." Abasing themselves, they tore their mantles and howled; and God, piteous of their howlings, was constrained to say: "Bring me the prayers of these people and I will forget your remissness." The Prophets ran hither and thither, wailing: "Woe. Woe. Woe." Sore that they behaved with such scant respect, Paul herded them into the Council Room. "Is it seemly," he rebuked them, "that the Prophets of God act like madmen?" |
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