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Title: The Woodcutter of Gutech

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Release Date: May 15, 2007 [EBook #21486]

Language: English

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The Woodcutter of Gutech, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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A very short book, and a fairly early one of the author's. The subject
matter is the early days of the Reformation, and the time at which the
Roman Church was trying to prevent ordinary people from reading the
Bible in general, and the Gospels in particular. The Woodcutter with
his son and his donkey are working in the forest, one evening, when a
man asks them for directions to get out of the forest. They offer him a
bed for the night, so he comes to their home, where he produces his
wares, which consist of Bibles, and he explains them to the enthralled
family.

Although it is short this book makes a nice little audiobook.

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THE WOODCUTTER OF GUTECH, BY W.H.G. KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

A traveller was making his way through the Black Forest in Germany. A
pack was on his back, of a size which required a stout man to carry it,
and a thick staff was in his hand. He had got out of his path by
attempting to make a short cut, and in so doing had lost his way, and
had been since wandering he knew not where. Yet he was stout of heart,
as of limb, and a night spent in the depths of the forest would have
concerned him but little had he not set a value upon time. "I have lost
so much in my days of ignorance and folly," he kept saying, "that I must
make up by vigilance what has been thus misspent. I wish that I had
known better. However, I am now ready to spend all, and be spent in the
work of the Good Master I serve."

The ground was uneven, his load heavy, and the weather warm. Still he
trudged bravely on, consoling himself by giving forth, in rich full
tones, a hymn of Hans Sachs of Nuremburg, the favourite po