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"In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
"Listen to me, ye that are without sin. Ye are under the care of God. There are grass and herbs growing for ye, and there are nice white garments upon ye, to keep ye warm and dry. And there is no Judgment for ye after your death. Ye are more happy than the children of Eve who were born in sin, and who would be burning in a great fire in hell for ever after their death, were it not that God, the King of the World, sent His only Son down out of Heaven to give them example and doctrine, and to save them. But behold the requital that they made Him for His trouble. They abused Him and they smote Him, and cast foul spits upon His very holy face. They put a crown of thorns upon His head and bruised it down tightly upon Him, and after that they hanged Him upon a tree. But when He was dying, He asked His Father to grant them forgiveness after all the ill-usage that they had given Him, for He made them in His own image, and He showed to them His great power with miracles in this world. The thief Judas betrayed Him, and Peter the Apostle reneagued Him; and yet after that He gave him the Keys of Heaven, and he was the first Pope, and He established the Catholic Church to guide us in the way of grace, and there is no danger of whosoever shall follow it, but, my grief! there are not many following it."
He said many more things of the same kind to the sheep.
(to be continued)