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The Lions of the Lord

CHAPTER XIV
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A word to the wise is enough; just remember that there are sins that the blood of a lamb, of a calf, or of a turtle-dove, cannot remit." Under this discourse Joel Rae sat terrified, with a bloodless face, cowering as he had made others to cower six weeks before.

The words seemed to carry his own preaching to its rightful conclusion; but now how changed was his world!--a whirling, sickening chaos of sin and remorse.
As he listened to Brigham's words, picturing the blood of the sinner smoking on the ground, his thoughts fled back to that night, that night of wondrous light and warmth, the last he could remember before the great blank came.
Now the voice of Brigham came to him again: "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission!" Then the service ended, and he saw Bishop Wright pushing toward him through the crowd.
"Well, well, Brother Rae you do look peaked, for sure! But you'll pick up fast enough, and just in time, too.

Lord! what won't Brother Brigham do when the Holy Ghost gets a strangle-holt on him?
Now, then," he added, in a lower tone, "if I ain't mistaken, there's going to be some work for the Sons of Dan!".


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