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how long? ' 'To-morrow, and to-mor- row ? ' ' why not now ? why not now ? why not is there this hour an end to my unclean- ncss ?' " "A microscopic cause, " it has been said, " often works a long-prepared effect. " That evening, in the garden at Milan, the apoph- thegm was to hold good. " Augustine was still "speaking, and weeping in the most bitter contrition of his heart, " when suddenly there fell upon his ear, from a neigh- bouring house, "a voice, as of a boy or girl, chanting, and oft rep...eating — ' Take up and read ! take up and read ! ' " Not more start- linof to Saul of Tarsus was the li. 2;ht, and the 166 MEMOIR OF ST. AUGUSTINE. voice, that day, on the way to Damascus. "Instantly, " says he, " my countenance altered : I began to think most intently whether chil- dren were wont, in any kind of play, to sing- such words; nor could I remember ever to have heard the like. So, checking the torrent of my tears, I arose, interpreting it to be no other than a command from God to open the book and read the iirst chapter I should find ; for, " he adds, " I had heard of Antony, that, coming in during the reading of the Gospel, he received the admonition, as if what was being read was spoken to him—' Go, sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me ; ' and by such oracle he was forthwith converted imto Thee.
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