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The Refugees

CHAPTER XXXI
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It has converted several squaws and more than one Indian.

I shall not bring back the saved soul when I come in the spring, but I shall bring five damned souls, which will be one for each nation.

We must fight Satan with such weapons as we can get, you see.
And now, my children, if you must go, let me first call down a blessing upon you!" And then occurred a strange thing, for the beauty of this man's soul shone through all the wretched clouds of sect, and, as he raised his hand to bless them, down went those Protestant knees to earth, and even old Ephraim found himself with a softened heart and a bent head listening to the half-understood words of this crippled, half-blinded, little stranger.
"Farewell, then," said he, when they had risen.

"May the sunshine of Saint Eulalie be upon you, and may Saint Anne of Beaupre shield you at the moment of your danger." And so they left him, a grotesque and yet heroic figure, staggering along through the woods with his tent, his pictures, and his mutilation.
If the Church of Rome should ever be wrecked it may come from her weakness in high places, where all Churches are at their weakest, or it may be because with what is very narrow she tries to explain that which is very broad, but assuredly it will never be through the fault of her rank and file, for never upon earth have men and women spent themselves more lavishly and more splendidly than in her service..


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