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The Project Gutenberg EBook of St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 Author: Various Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge Release Date: September 28, 2006 [EBook #19399] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Paul Ereaut and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: TWO WAYS OF CARRYING THE MAIL. [See Letter-Box.]] ST. NICHOLAS. VOL. V. JANUARY, 1878. No. 3. [Copyright, 1877, by Scribner & Co.] THE RAVENS AND THE ANGELS. (_A Story of the Middle Ages._) BY THE AUTHOR OF "CHRONICLES OF THE SCHOeNBERG-COTTA FAMILY." I. In those old days, in that old city, they called the cathedral--and they thought it--the house of God. The cathedral was the Father's house for all, and therefore it was loved and honored, and enriched with lavish treasures of wealth and work, beyond any other father's house. The cathedral was the Father's house, and, therefore, close to its gates might nestle the poor dwellings of the poor,--too poor to find a shelter anywhere besides; because the central life and joy of the house of God was the suffering, self-sacrificing Son of Man; and dearer to Him, now and forever, as when He was on earth, was the feeblest and most fallen human creature He had redeemed than the most glorious heavenly constellation of the universe He had made. And so it happened that when Berthold, the stone-carver, died, Magdalis, his young wife, and her two children, then scarcely more than babes, Gottlieb and little Lenichen, were suffered to make their home in the little wooden shed which had once sheltered a hermit, and which nestled into the recess close to the great western gate of the minster. Thus, while inside from the lofty aisles pealed forth, night and day, the anthems of the choir, close outside, night and day, rose also, even more surely to God, the sighs of a sorrowful woman and the cries of little children whom all her toil could hardly supply with
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