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“Poor mad Jurgen,” said the people. And this was the end of a life whose infancy was to have been surrounded with wealth and splendour had his parents lived! All his great mental abilities had been lost, nothing but hardship, sorrow, and disappointment had been his fate. He was like a rare plant, torn from its native soil, and tossed upon the beach to wither there. And was this one of God’s creatures, fashioned in His own likeness, to have no better fate? Was he to be only the plaything of fortune? No! the all-loving Creator would certainly repay him in the life to come for what he had suffered and lost here. “The Lord is good to all; and His mercy is over all His works.” The pious old wife of the merchant repeated these words from the Psalms of David in patience and hope, and the prayer of her heart was that Jurgen might soon be called away to enter into eternal life.

“可憐的白癡雨?duì)柛?！”大家說。而這就是一個(gè)從他的母親的懷里出生以后，本來是注定要享受豐富的幸福的人間生活的人的結(jié)局！他心靈中的一切力量都已經(jīng)喪失了，他的命運(yùn)現(xiàn)在只是一連串艱難的日子、痛苦和失望。他像一個(gè)美麗的花根，被人從土壤里拔出來，扔在沙子上，聽任它腐爛下去。不過，難道依著上帝的形象造成的人只能有這點(diǎn)價(jià)值嗎？難道一切都是由命運(yùn)在那兒作祟嗎？不是的，對于他所受過的苦難和他所損失掉的東西，博愛的上帝一定會在來生給他報(bào)償?shù)??！吧系蹖σ磺腥硕己?；他的工作充滿了仁慈。”這是大衛(wèi)《圣詩集》中的話語。這商人的年老而虔誠的妻子，以耐心和希望，把這句話念出來。她心中只祈求上帝早點(diǎn)把雨?duì)柛倩厝?，使他能走進(jìn)上帝的“慈悲世界”和永恒的生活中去。