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Tolstoi + +Translator: Nathan Haskell Dole + +Release Date: January 18, 2012 [EBook #38616] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHERE LOVE IS THERE GOD IS ALSO *** + + + + +Produced by Gerard Arthus, Charlene Taylor, Jana Srna and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + + [ Transcriber's Notes: + + Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as + possible, including any non-standard spelling. + + Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. + ] + + + + + WHERE LOVE IS + THERE GOD IS ALSO + + BY + LYOF N. TOLSTOI + + TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN + BY + NATHAN HASKELL DOLE + + NEW YORK + THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY + PUBLISHERS + + + Copyright, 1887, + By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. + + + + +WHERE LOVE IS THERE GOD IS ALSO + + +In the city lived the shoemaker, Martuin Avdyeitch. He lived in a +basement, in a little room with one window. The window looked out on the +street. Through the window he used to watch the people passing by; +although only their feet could be seen, yet by the boots, Martuin +Avdyeitch recognized the people. Martuin Avdyeitch had lived long in one +place, and had many acquaintances. Few pairs of boots in his district +had not been in his hands once and again. Some he would half-sole, some +he would patch, some he would stitch around, and occasionally he would +also put on new uppers. And through the window he often recognized his +work. + +Avdyeitch had plenty to do, because he was a faithful workman, used good +material, did not make exorbitant charges, and kept his word. If it was +possible for him to finish an order by a certain time, he would accept +it; otherwise, he would not deceive you,--he would tell you so +beforehand. And all knew Avdyeitch, and he was never out of work. + +Avdyeitch had always been a good man; but as he grew old, he began to +think more about his soul, and get nearer to God. Martuin's wife had +died when he was still living with his master. His wife left him a boy +three years old. None of their other children had lived. All the eldest +had died in childhood. Martuin at first intended to send his little son +to his sister in the village, but afterward he felt sorry for him; he +thought to himself:-- + +"It will be hard for my Kapitoshka to live in a strange family. I shall +keep him with me." + +And Avdyeitch left his master, and went into lodgings with his little +son. But God gave Avdyeitch no luck with his children. As Kapitoshka +grew older, he began to help his father, and would have been a delight +to him, but a sickness fell on him, he went to bed, suffered a week, and +died. Martuin buried his son, and fell into despair. So deep was this +despair that he began to complain of God. Martuin fell into such a +melancholy state, that more than once he prayed to God for death, and +reproached God because He had not taken him who was an old man, instead +of his beloved only son. Avdyeitch also ceased to go to church. + +And once a little old man from the same district came from Troitsa(1) to +see Avdyeitch; for seven years he had been wandering about. Avdyeitch +talked with him, and began to complain about his sorrows. + + (1) Trinity, a famous monastery, pilgrimage to which is reckoned a + virtue. Avdyeitch calls this _zemlyak-starichok_, _Bozhi chelovyek_, + God's man.--Ed. + +"I have no desire to live any longer," he said, "I only wish I was dead. +That is all I pray God for. I am a man without anything to hope for +now." + +And the little old man said to him:-- + +"You don't talk right, Martuin, we must not judge God's doings. The +world moves, not by our skill, but by God's will. God decreed for your +son to die,--for you--to live. So it is for the best. And you are in +despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness." + +"But what shall one live for?" asked Martuin. + +And the little old man said:-- + +"We must live for God, Martuin. He gives you life, and for His sake you +must live. When you begin to live for Him, you will not grieve over +anything, and all will seem easy to you." + +Martuin kept silent for a moment, and then said, "But how can one live +for God?" + +And the little old man said:-- + +"Christ has taught us how to live for God. You know how to read? Buy a +Testament, and read it; there you will learn how to live for God. +Everything is explained there." + +And these words kindled a fire in Avdyeitch's heart. And he went that +very same day, bought a New Testament in large print, and began to read. + +At first Avdyeitch intended to read only on holidays; but as he began to +read, it so cheered his soul that he used to read every day. At times he +would become so absorbed in reading, that all the kerosene in the lamp +would burn out, and still he could not tear himself away. And so +Avdyeitch used to read every evening. + +And the more he read, the clearer he understood what God wanted of him, +and how one should live for God; and his heart kept growing easier and +easier. Formerly, when he lay down to sleep, he used to sigh and groan, +and always thought of his Kapitoshka; and now his only exclamation +was:-- + +"Glory to Thee! glory to Thee, Lord! Thy will be done." + +And from that time Avdyeitch's whole life was changed. In other days he, +too, used to drop into a public-house(2) as a holiday amusement, to +drink a cup of tea; and he was not averse to a little brandy, either. He +would take a drink with some acquaintance, and leave the saloon, not +intoxicated, exactly, yet in a happy frame of mind, and inclined to talk +nonsense, and shout, and use abusive language at a person. Now he left +off that sort of thing. His life became quiet and joyful. In the morning +he would sit down to work, finish his allotted task, then take the +little lamp from the hook, put it on the table, get his book from the +shelf, open it, and sit down to read. And the more he read, the more he +understood, and the brighter and happier it grew in his heart. + + (2) _Traktir._ + +Once it happened that Martuin read till late into the night. He was +reading the Gospel of Luke. He was reading over the sixth chapter; and +he was reading the verses:-- + +"_And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; +and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. +Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy +goods ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do +ye also to them likewise._" + +He read farther also those verses, where God speaks: + +"_And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? +Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will +shew you to whom he is like: he is like a man which built an house, and +digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood +arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake +it; for it was founded upon a rock. But he that heareth, and doeth not, +is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; +against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; +and the ruin of that house was great._" + +Avdyeitch read these words, and joy filled his soul. He took off his +spectacles, put them down on the book, leaned his elbows on the table, +and became lost in thought. And he began to measure his life by these +words. And he thought to himself:-- + +"Is my house built on the rock, or on the sand? 'Tis well if on the +rock. It is so easy when you are alone by yourself; it seems as if you +had done everything as God commands; but when you forget yourself, you +sin again. Yet I shall still struggle on. It is very good. Help me, +Lord!" + +Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear +himself away from the book. And he began to read farther in the seventh +chapter. He read about the centurion, he read about the widow's son, he +read about the answer given to John's disciples, and finally he came to +that place where the rich Pharisee desired the Lord to sit at meat with +him; and he read how the woman that was a sinner anointed His feet, and +washed them with her tears, and how He forgave her. He reached the +forty-fourth verse, and began to read:-- + +"_And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this +woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: +but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of +her head. Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came +in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not +anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment._" + +He finished reading these verses, and thought to himself:-- + +"_Thou gavest me no water for my feet, thou gavest me no kiss. My head +with oil thou didst not anoint._" + +And again Avdyeitch took off his spectacles, put them down on the book, +and again he became lost in thought. + +"It seems that Pharisee must have been such a man as I am. I, too, +apparently have thought only of myself,--how I might have my tea, be +warm and comfortable, but never to think about my guest. He thought +about himself, but there was not the least care taken of the guest. And +who was his guest? The Lord Himself. If He had come to me, should I have +done the same way?" + +Avdyeitch rested his head upon both his arms, and did not notice that he +fell asleep. + +"Martuin!" suddenly seemed to sound in his ears. + +Martuin started from his sleep:-- + +"Who is here?" + +He turned around, glanced toward the door--no one. + +Again he fell into a doze. Suddenly, he plainly heard:-- + +"Martuin! Ah, Martuin! look to-morrow on the street. I am coming." + +Martuin awoke, rose from the chair, began to rub his eyes. He himself +could not tell whether he heard those words in his dream, or in reality. +He turned down his lamp, and went to bed. + +At daybreak next morning, Avdyeitch rose, made his prayer to God, +lighted the stove, put on the shchi(3) and the kasha,(4) put the water +in the samovar, put on his apron, and sat down by the window to work. + + (3) Cabbage-soup. + + (4) Gruel. + +And while he was working, he kept thinking about all that had happened +the day before. It seemed to him at one moment that it was a dream, and +now he had really heard a voice. + +"Well," he said to himself, "such things have been." + +Martuin was sitting by the window, and looking out more than he was +working. When anyone passed by in boots which he did not know, he would +bend down, look out of the window, in order to see, not only the feet, +but also the face. + +The dvornik(5) passed by in new felt boots,(6) the water-carrier passed +by; then there came up to the window an old soldier of Nicholas's time, +in an old pair of laced felt boots, with a shovel in his hands. +Avdyeitch recognized him by his felt boots. The old man's name was +Stepanuitch; and a neighboring merchant, out of charity, gave him a home +with him. He was required to assist the dvornik. Stepanuitch began to +shovel away the snow from in front of Avdyeitch's window. Avdyeitch +glanced at him, and took up his work again. + + (5) House-porter. + + (6) _Valenki._ + +"Pshaw! I must be getting crazy in my old age," said Avdyeitch, and +laughed at himself. "Stepanuitch is clearing away the snow, and I +imagine that Christ is coming to see me. I was entirely out of my mind, +old dotard that I am!" + +Avdyeitch sewed about a dozen stitches, and then felt impelled to look +through the window again. He looked out again through the window, and +saw that Stepanuitch had leaned his shovel against the wall, and was +warming himself, and resting. He was an old, broken-down man; evidently +he had not strength enough even to shovel the snow. Avdyeitch said to +himself:-- + +"I will give him some tea; by the way, the samovar has only just gone +out." Avdyeitch laid down his awl, rose from his seat, put the samovar +on the table, poured out the tea, and tapped with his finger at the +glass. Stepanuitch turned around, and came to the window. Avdyeitch +beckoned to him, and went to open the door. + +"Come in, warm yourself a little," he said. "You must be cold." + +"May Christ reward you for this! my bones ache," said Stepanuitch. + +Stepanuitch came in, and shook off the snow, tried to wipe his feet, so +as not to soil the floor, but staggered. + +"Don't trouble to wipe your feet. I will clean it up myself; we are used +to such things. Come in and sit down," said Avdyeitch. "Here, drink a +cup of tea." + +And Avdyeitch lifted two glasses, and handed one to his guest; while he +himself poured his tea into a saucer, and began to blow it. + +Stepanuitch finished drinking his glass of tea, turned the glass upside +down,(7) put the half-eaten lump of sugar on it, and began to express +his thanks. But it was evident he wanted some more. + + (7) To signify he was satisfied; a custom among the Russians.--Ed. + +"Have some more," said Avdyeitch, filling both his own glass and his +guest's. Avdyeitch drank his tea, but from time to time glanced out into +the street. + +"Are you expecting anyone?" asked his guest. + +"Am I expecting anyone? I am ashamed even to tell whom I expect. I am, +and I am not, expecting someone; but one word has kindled a fire in my +heart. Whether it is a dream, or something else, I do not know. Don't +you see, brother, I was reading yesterday the Gospel about Christ the +Batyushka; how He suffered, how He walked on the earth. I suppose you +have heard about it?" + +"Indeed I have," replied Stepanuitch; "but we are people in darkness, we +can't read." + +"Well, now, I was reading about that very thing,--how He walked on the +earth; I read, you know, how He came to the Pharisee, and the Pharisee +did not treat Him hospitably. Well, and so, my brother, I was reading +yesterday, about this very thing, and was thinking to myself how he did +not receive Christ, the Batyushka, with honor. Suppose, for example, He +should come to me, or anyone else, I said to myself, I should not even +know how to receive Him. And he gave Him no reception at all. Well! +while I was thus thinking, I fell asleep, brother, and I heard someone +call me by name. I got up; the voice, just as if someone whispered, +said, 'Be on the watch; I shall come to-morrow.' And this happened +twice. Well! would you believe it, it got into my head? I scolded +myself--and yet I am expecting Him, the Batyushka." + +Stepanuitch shook his head, and said nothing; he finished drinking his +glass of tea, and put it on the side; but Avdyeitch picked up the glass +again, and filled it once more. + +"Drink some more for your good health. You see, I have an idea that, +when the Batyushka went about on this earth, He disdained no one, and +had more to do with the simple people. He always went to see the simple +people. He picked out His disciples more from among folk like such +sinners as we are, from the working class. Said He, whoever exalts +himself, shall be humbled, and he who is humbled shall become exalted. +Said He, you call me Lord, and, said He, I wash your feet. Whoever +wishes, said He, to be the first, the same shall be a servant to all. +Because, said He, blessed are the poor, the humble, the kind, the +generous." + +And Stepanuitch forgot about his tea; he was an old man, and easily +moved to tears. He was listening, and the tears rolled down his face. + +"Come, now, have some more tea," said Avdyeitch; but Stepanuitch made +the sign of the cross, thanked him, turned down his glass, and arose. + +"Thanks to you," he says, "Martuin Avdyeitch, for treating me kindly, +and satisfying me, soul and body." + +"You are welcome; come in again; always glad to see a friend," said +Avdyeitch. + +Stepanuitch departed; and Martuin poured out the rest of the tea, drank +it up, put away the dishes, and sat down again by the window to work, to +stitch on a patch. He kept stitching away, and at the same time looking +through the window. He was expecting Christ, and was all the while +thinking of Him and His deeds, and his head was filled with the +different speeches of Christ. + +Two soldiers passed by: one wore boots furnished by the crown, and the +other one, boots that he had made; then the master(8) of the next house +passed by in shining galoshes; then a baker with a basket passed by. All +passed by; and now there came also by the window a woman in woolen +stockings and rustic bashmaks on her feet. She passed by the window, and +stood still near the window-case. + + (8) _Khozyain._ + +Avdyeitch looked up at her from the window, and saw it was a stranger, a +woman poorly clad, and with a child; she was standing by the wall with +her back to the wind, trying to wrap up the child, and she had nothing +to wrap it up in. The woman was dressed in shabby summer clothes; and +from behind the frame, Avdyeitch could hear the child crying, and the +woman trying to pacify it; but she was not able to pacify it. + +Avdyeitch got up, went to the door, ascended the steps, and cried:-- + +"My good woman. Hey! my good woman!"(9) + + (9) _Umnitsa aumnitsa!_ literally, clever one. + +The woman heard him and turned around. + +"Why are you standing in the cold with the child? Come into my room, +where it is warm; you can manage it better. Here, this way!" + +The woman was astonished. She saw an old, old man in an apron, with +spectacles on his nose, calling her to him. She followed him. They +descended the steps and entered the room; the old man led the woman to +his bed. + +"There," says he, "sit down, my good woman, nearer to the stove; you can +get warm, and nurse the little one." + +"I have no milk for him. I myself have not eaten anything since +morning," said the woman; but, nevertheless, she took the baby to her +breast. + +Avdyeitch shook his head, went to the table, brought out the bread and a +dish, opened the oven door, poured into the dish some cabbage soup, took +out the pot with the gruel, but it was not cooked as yet; so he filled +the dish with shchi only, and put it on the table. He got the bread, +took the towel down from the hook, and spread it upon the table. + +"Sit down," he says, "and eat, my good woman; and I will mind the little +one. You see, I once had children of my own; I know how to handle them." + +The woman crossed herself, sat down at the table, and began to eat; +while Avdyeitch took a seat on the bed near the infant. Avdyeitch kept +smacking and smacking to it with his lips; but it was a poor kind of +smacking, for he had no teeth. The little one kept on crying. And it +occured to Avdyeitch to threaten the little one with his finger; he +waved, waved his finger right before the child's mouth, and hastily +withdrew it. He did not put it to its mouth, because his finger was +black, and soiled with wax. And the little one looked at his finger, and +became quiet; then it began to smile, and Avdyeitch also was glad. While +the woman was eating, she told who she was, and whither she was going. + +Said she:-- + +"I am a soldier's wife. It is now seven months since they sent my +husband away off, and no tidings. I lived out as cook; the baby was +born; no one cared to keep me with a child. This is the third month that +I have been struggling along without a place. I ate up all I had. I +wanted to engage as a wet-nurse--no one would take me--I am too thin, +they say. I have just been to the merchant's wife, where lives a young +woman I know, and so they promised to take us in. I thought that was the +end of it. But she told me to come next week. And she lives a long way +off. I got tired out; and it tired him, too, my heart's darling. +Fortunately, our landlady takes pity on us for the sake of Christ, and +gives us a room, else I don't know how I should manage to get along." + +Avdyeitch sighed, and said: + +"Haven't you any warm clothes?" + +"Now is the time, friend, to wear warm clothes; but yesterday I pawned +my last shawl for a twenty-kopek piece."(10) + + (10) _Dvagrivennui_, silver, worth sixteen cents. + +The woman came to the bed, and took the child; and Avdyeitch rose, went +to the partition, rummaged round, and succeeded in finding an old coat. + +"Na!" says he; "It is a poor thing, yet you may turn it to some use." + +The woman looked at the coat and looked at the old man; she took the +coat, and burst into tears; and Avdyeitch turned away his head; crawling +under the bed, he pushed out a little trunk, rummaged in it, and sat +down again opposite the woman. + +And the woman said:-- + +"May Christ bless you, little grandfather!(11) He must have sent me to +your window. My little baby would have frozen to death. When I started +out it was warm, but now it has grown cold. And He, the Batyushka, led +you to look through the window and take pity on me, an unfortunate." + + (11) _Diedushka._ + +Avdyeitch smiled, and said:-- + +"Indeed, He did that! I have been looking through the window, my good +woman, for some wise reason." + +And Martuin told the soldier's wife his dream, and how he heard the +voice,--how the Lord promised to come and see him that day. + +"All things are possible," said the woman. She rose, put on the coat, +wrapped up her little child in it; and, as she started to take leave, +she thanked Avdyeitch again. + +"Take this, for Christ's sake," said Avdyeitch, giving her a +twenty-kopek piece; "redeem your shawl." + +She made the sign of the cross, and Avdyeitch made the sign of the cross +and went with her to the door. + +The woman went away. Avdyeitch ate some shchi, washed the dishes, and +sat down again to work. While he was working he still remembered the +window; when the window grew darker he immediately looked out to see who +was passing by. Acquaintances passed by and strangers passed by, and +there was nothing out of the ordinary. + +But here Avdyeitch saw that an old apple woman had stopped in front of +his window. She carried a basket with apples. Only a few were left, as +she had evidently sold them nearly all out; and over her shoulder she +had a bag full of chips. She must have gathered them up in some new +building, and was on her way home. One could see that the bag was heavy +on her shoulder; she tried to shift it to the other shoulder. So she +lowered the bag on the sidewalk, stood the basket with the apples on a +little post, and began to shake down the splinters in the bag. And while +she was shaking her bag, a little boy in a torn cap came along, picked +up an apple from the basket, and was about to make his escape; but the +old woman noticed it, turned around, and caught the youngster by his +sleeve. The little boy began to struggle, tried to tear himself away; +but the old woman grasped him with both hands, knocked off his cap, and +caught him by the hair. + +The little boy was screaming, the old woman was scolding. Avdyeitch lost +no time in putting away his awl; he threw it upon the floor, sprang to +the door,--he even stumbled on the stairs, and dropped his +spectacles,--and rushed out into the street. + +The old woman was pulling the youngster by his hair, and was scolding +and threatening to take him to the policeman; the youngster was +defending himself, and denying the charge. + +"I did not take it," he said; "What are you licking me for? Let me go!" + +Avdyeitch tried to separate them. He took the boy by his arm, and +said:-- + +"Let him go, babushka; forgive him, for Christ's sake." + +"I will forgive him so that he won't forget it till the new broom grows. +I am going to take the little villain to the police." + +Avdyeitch began to entreat the old woman:-- + +"Let him go, babushka," he said, "he will never do it again. Let him go, +for Christ's sake." + +The old woman let him loose; the boy started to run, but Avdyeitch kept +him back. + +"Ask the babushka's forgiveness," he said, "and don't you ever do it +again; I saw you take the apple." + +The boy burst into tears, and began to ask forgiveness. + +"There now! that's right; and here's an apple for you." + +And Avdyeitch took an apple from the basket, and gave it to the boy. + +"I will pay you for it, babushka," he said to the old woman. + +"You ruin them that way, the good-for-nothings," said the old woman. "He +ought to be treated so that he would remember it for a whole week." + +"Eh, babushka, babushka," said Avdyeitch, "that is right according to +our judgment, but not according to God's. If he is to be whipped for an +apple, then what ought to be done to us for our sins?" + +The old woman was silent. + +And Avdyeitch told her the parable of the master who forgave a debtor +all that he owed him, and how the debtor went and began to choke one who +owed him. + +The old woman listened, and the boy stood listening. + +"God has commanded us to forgive," said Avdyeitch, "else we, too, may +not be forgiven. All should be forgiven, and the thoughtless +especially." + +The old woman shook her head, and sighed. + +"That's so," said she; "but the trouble is that they are very much +spoiled." + +"Then we who are older must teach them," said Avdyeitch. + +"That's just what I say," remarked the old woman. "I myself have had +seven of them,--only one daughter is left." + +And the old woman began to relate where and how she lived with her +daughter, and how many grandchildren she had. "Here," she says, "my +strength is only so-so, and yet I have to work. I pity the +youngsters--my grandchildren--but what nice children they are! No one +gives me such a welcome as they do. Aksintka won't go to anyone but me. +'Babushka, dear babushka, lovliest.'" + +And the old woman grew quite sentimental. + +"Of course, it is a childish trick. God be with him," said she, pointing +to the boy. + +The woman was just about to lift the bag up on her shoulder, when the +boy ran up, and said:-- + +"Let me carry it, babushka; it is on my way." + +The old woman nodded her head, and put the bag on the boy's back. + +And side by side they passed along the street. + +And the old woman even forgot to ask Avdyeitch to pay for the apple. +Avdyeitch stood motionless, and kept gazing after them; and he heard +them talking all the time as they walked away. After Avdyeitch saw them +disappear, he returned to his room; he found his eye-glasses on the +stairs,--they were not broken; he picked up his awl, and sat down to +work again. + +After working a little while, it grew darker, so that he could not see +to sew; he saw the lamplighter passing by to light the street-lamps. + +"It must be time to make a light," he said to himself; so he got his +little lamp ready, hung it up, and he took himself again to his work. He +had one boot already finished; he turned it around, looked at it: "Well +done." He put away his tools, swept off the cuttings, cleared off the +bristles and ends, took the lamp, set it on the table, and took down the +Gospels from the shelf. He intended to open the book at the very place +where he had yesterday put a piece of leather as a mark, but it happened +to open at another place; and the moment Avdyeitch opened the Testament, +he recollected his last night's dream. And as soon as he remembered it, +it seemed as if he heard someone stepping about behind him. Avdyeitch +looked around, and saw--there, in the dark corner, it seemed as if +people were standing; he was at a loss to know who they were. And a +voice whispered in his ear:-- + +"Martuin--ah, Martuin! did you not recognize me?" + +"Who?" exclaimed Avdyeitch. + +"Me," repeated the voice. "It was I;" and Stepanuitch stepped forth from +the dark corner; he smiled, and like a little cloud faded away, and soon +vanished. + +"And it was I," said the voice. + +From the dark corner stepped forth the woman with her child; the woman +smiled, the child laughed, and they also vanished, + +"And it was I," continued the voice; both the old woman and the boy with +the apple stepped forward; both smiled and vanished. + +Avdyeitch's soul rejoiced; he crossed himself, put on his spectacles, +and began to read the Evangelists where it happened to open. On the +upper part of the page he read:-- + +"_For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave +me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in._" + +And on the lower part of the page he read this:-- + +"_Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my +brethren, ye have done it unto me._"--St. Matthew, Chap. xxv. + +And Avdyeitch understood that his dream had not deceived him; that the +Saviour really called on him that day, and that he really received Him. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Where Love Is There God Is Also, by Lyof N. 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