Reminiscences of the Best Hours of Life for the Hour of Death
Reminiscences of the Best Hours of Life for the Hour of Death
Jean Paul, 1763-1825
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Life is then a beautiful night in which hot one star goes down, but another -^ in its place. Digitized by VjOOQ IC BESTHOURS. 21 Gottreich possessed a paradise in which he labored as his father's gardener. He was at once the wife, the brother, the friend, the all that is to be loved by man, of his parent. Every Sunday brought him a new pleasure, that of preaching a sermon before his father. He displayed so much power in his pulpit eloquence, that he seemed to labor more for the elevation and ed...ification of his father, than for the enlightenment of the common people ; though he held a max- im which I take to be far from erroneous, that the highest subjects of spiritual thought are good for the people as for children, and that man can only learn to rise, from the consideration of that iphich he cannot sur- m^fwt. Tf the eye of the old man was moistened, or if his hands were suddenly d by Google 22 BESTHOURS. folded in an attitude of prayer, the Sunday became the holiest of festivals ; and many a festival has there been in that quiet little parsonage, whose festivity no one under- stood and no one perceived.
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