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There was a Pastor in a neighboring parish who loved the people with whom there was a co-ministry.
One day a member yelled, "Help."
The minister went to the person because he had love and concern.
The person confessed some grave sins.
The ordained of God gave the sorrowful one Christ's absolution.
Then, time passed.
Something happened.
The absolved one began to criticize and to propagate lies, and to raise a knife to the soul of the one whose collar always seemed to be turned backward.
The clergy suffered, but willingly, because this servant of Christ knew what was the matter, "This prodigal felt guilty and was ashamed because another living being knew the deep
dark secret ... This feeder of swine had projected his own sin upon the one who had given comfort."
Said the clergy, "I suffer because I know; I have done so before ..."
Moral: "Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God."
-- Smyth
There was a Pastor in a neighboring parish who loved the people with whom there was a co-ministry.
One day a member yelled, "Help."
The minister went to the person because he had love and concern.
The person confessed some grave sins.
The ordained of God gave the sorrowful one Christ's absolution.
Then, time passed.
Something happened.
The absolved one began to criticize and to propagate lies, and to raise a knife to the soul of the one whose collar always seemed to be turned backward.
The clergy suffered, but willingly, because this servant of Christ knew what was the matter, "This prodigal felt guilty and was ashamed because another living being knew the deep
dark secret ... This feeder of swine had projected his own sin upon the one who had given comfort."
Said the clergy, "I suffer because I know; I have done so before ..."
Moral: "Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God."
-- Smyth
