2013年5月24日星期五

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in the evening on his little cane-chair, he had often heard his father

read from Gellert's fables, and sometimes from Klopstock's grand poem,

"The Messiah." He and his sister, two years older than himself, had

often wept scalding tears over the story of Him who suffered death

on the cross for us all.

On his first visit to Marbach, the town appeared to have changed

but very little, and it was not far enough away to be forgotten. The

house, with its pointed gable, narrow windows, overhanging walls and

stories, projecting one beyond another, looked just the same as in

former times. But in the churchyard there were several new graves; and

there also, in the grass, close by the wall, stood the old church

bell! It had been taken down from its high position, in consequence of

a crack in the metal which prevented it from ever chiming again, and a

new bell now occupied its place. The mother and son were walking in

the churchyard when they discovered the old bell, and they stood still

to look at it. Then the mother reminded her little boy of what a

useful bell this had been for many hundred years. It had chimed for

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