At
this thought Cornelli again became quite red from excitement and was
on the point of breaking out again. But Martha put her hand on the
child's shoulder, quietly restraining her.
"No, no, Cornelli, that's enough," she said soothingly. "It is only
to your advantage that it is so and not as they have said. You have
been accused wrongly and cannot prove it, but God knows the truth. He
has heard everything. You can be calm and happy and look up to Him
with a clear conscience. You can say to yourself: 'God knows it, and
I do not need to be afraid or frightened.' If you had really done wrong
and had denied it, you would have to be afraid that the truth would
be revealed. Then you could not look up calmly to the sky, for you
would be frightened at the thought that up there was One who knew
everything and from whom nothing could be hidden. A wrong accusation
does not stay with us forever. Even if it takes ever so long, it
generally is revealed in the end, and you certainly will not need to
bear it in all eternity, because God already knows how it is.
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