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Updated: September 20, 2025
Lutherans enshrine it in their inmost souls because it is the receptacle of treasures of meditation and devotion with which their forms of worship have been enriched for four hundred years. To ignore Angelus Silesius, Paul Gerhardt, Albert Knapp, Philip Spitta and their glorious compeers, would be to silence a choir that sang the praises of the Lord "in notes almost divine."
Jennie feared, as Veronica hinted, that she and William would go to live with Martha, who was installed in a boarding-house in Cleveland, and that Gerhardt would be left alone. He was such a pathetic figure to her, with his injured hands and his one ability that of being a watchman that she was hurt to think of his being left alone. Would he come to her?
"Speak to her, anyhow," was her last appeal before the door opened; but he made no reply. When Jennie came in her mother whispered, "He is in the front room." Jennie paled, put her thumb to her lip and stood irresolute, not knowing how to meet the situation. "Has he seen?" Jennie paused as she realized from her mother's face and nod that Gerhardt knew of the child's existence.
"What!" said Gerhardt, astonished to see his two children. "Bass hasn't come yet," said Jennie, and then told the story of the evening's adventure in explanation. Gerhardt left his work at once, walking back with his two children to a point where he could turn off to go to the jail. He guessed what had happened, and his heart was troubled.
They opened a public competition, and, after considerable delay, during which the commission was changed by death and by absence, indeed four successive governors, Hubbard, Waller, Harrison, and Lounsbury have served on it, the work was awarded to Karl Gerhardt, a young sculptor who began his career in this city.
"Fourteen, I think. Some of them weren't much hurt. They'd all be alive, if I hadn't come out with you." "Who were they? But you don't know our names yet, do you? You didn't see Lieutenant Gerhardt among them?" "Don't think so." "Nor Sergeant Hicks, the fat fellow?" "Don't think so." "Where are you hurt?" "Abdominal. I can't tell anything without a light. I lost my flash light.
The arrival of the Christmas presents later in the evening threw the household into an uproar of excitement. Neither Gerhardt nor the mother could believe their eyes when a grocery wagon halted in front of their cottage and a lusty clerk began to carry in the gifts.
He was sour at this new fling of fate, and he looked his feelings; he stalked off gloomily to his room and shut himself in. Jennie and her mother saw the others off to bed, and then sat out in the kitchen talking. "I don't see what's to become of us now," said Mrs. Gerhardt at last, completely overcome by the financial complications which this new calamity had brought about.
It was a pleasant thing to know that there was a heaven, a fearsome one to realize that there was a hell. Young girls and boys ought to be good and obey their parents. Otherwise the whole religious problem was badly jumbled in her mind. Gerhardt was convinced that everything spoken from the pulpit of his church was literally true. Death and the future life were realities to him.
Such ideas used to seem childish to me." Gerhardt sprang up. "Now, have I told you what you want to know about my case?" He looked down at Claude with a curious glimmer of amusement and affection. "I'm going to stretch my legs. It's four o'clock."
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