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Title: Sacred allegories
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Adams, William, 1814-1848
Subjects: Bible Allegories Ethics in the Bible Christian life Christian ethics
Publisher: London : Rivingtons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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to be taken to a bright, cheerful, and happyhome. The poor orphans scarcely understood the meaning of thewords; they made an effort to arise; but their limbs were toofeeble to support them; they tried to speak, but their voices alsofailed; so they could only look up to the stranger with tearfuleyes, as though they fain would have besought him to have pityupon them, and carry them away from that terrible place. Then the stranger took the little girls in his arms, and witha quick, unerring step, walked straight on, until he had broughtthem to a river at the boundary of the forest. Here he pausedfor a moment, and bathed the children in the refreshing water.He then crossed over to a gentle eminence beyond, and suffered THE DISTANT HILLS. 85 them to rest on the soft grass. Now, such was the virtue of thatriver in which the two sisters had been bathed, that it not onlyhad washed away from their garments the stains that had clungto them in the wood, but it had also removed the stiffness and
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weariness of their limbs, and given them, as it were, new life.The night, too, had passed away, and a fresh morning now dawnedupon them; and as the early sun shone brightly, they felt cheerfuland happy, and began, with grateful hearts, to thank the kind 86 THE DISTANT HILLS. stranger for their deliverance. He looked down, and putting onehand on the head of each, smiled graciously upon them, and toldthem that they were now among the number of his Fathers adoptedchildren, and that their names were Rhoda and Minna; he promisedalso that if they would be content to love and obey him, hehad yet greater kindness in store for them than that which theyhad received. While the children wondered at these words, he raised his finger,and, pointing to the east, asked them what they saw. Ehodaand Minna looked up and gazed in silence, for they were unableto describe the grandeur of the scene. It seemed as though therewere a vast ocean of hills and mountains, rising majestically oneabove the other; the

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