Sister Carmen
Sister Carmen
Translated from the German by Kate Dykers
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subdued,
pious bearing of the members has become like a second nature to them,
and is now, therefore, not hypocritical. Besides, think how excellent
is the domestic economy of the settlement; how active and prosperous
they are in trade and various industries. They have many practical,
temporal, as well as spiritual objects to which they devote themselves."
"I grant all that; but such immense importance is attached to little things. Their work would be very trifling and ridiculous if attempted on a large scale. It resembles the wonderful industry in an ant-hill, unremitting and earnest, but petty labor. No genius is displayed. What great men have arisen from among them? Who are the distinguished scholars and artists which have gone forth from their ranks?"
"And how about their sufferings?" interposed the other, quickly. "Their struggles amidst privation and misery, and persecutions of all kinds in distant lands, for the sake of their faith, and to rescue wild heathens from depravity and barbarism,
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