When the Jews, exiled from the Holy Land, died afar off among
the pagans and the persecutors, they had themselves laid in
their tombs, with their faces turned toward Jerusalem! If your
strength betrays you, if it is not for you, during life, to
enter into perfect peace, to be delivered from certain enemies
of the soul, from certain humiliating miseries that set your
best will at defiance, if you must fall in the mêlée, fall at
least with your face turned toward Jerusalem.--CHARLES
WAGNER, “The Gospel of Life.”
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