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Why didn't they listen to the call and turn away from their sins? On their account we must all perish. God's hand strikes heavily. It strikes both the just and the unjust." When she had crossed the river she was overtaken by some of the other Hellgumists. They were Corporal Felt and Bullet Gunner and his wife, Brita.
"He is to have it if you resist God," Halvor declared. "I'm obliged to you for telling me what a good stroke of business it would be for me to adopt your faith." "You know well enough it wasn't meant in that way," said Karin reprovingly. "I understand quite well what you mean," returned Ingmar. "I'm to lose Gertrude and the sawmill and the old home unless I go over to the Hellgumists."
She wept from despair, and the Hellgumists all gathered round to pray with her. Still she heard nothing. And her despair became a thing of terror. "I can't hear anything!" she groaned. "But you've got to take me along. You shan't leave me to perish in the lake of fire!" "You must wait, Eva," said the Hellgumists. "The call may come. It will surely come, either to-night or in the morning."
One beautiful morning in July, a long train of carts and wagons set out from the Ingmar Farm. The Hellgumists had at last completed their arrangements, and were now leaving for Jerusalem the first stage of their journey being the long drive to the railway station. The procession, in moving toward the village, had to pass a wretched hovel which was called Mucklemire.
"How could that apply to us?" laughed the young man. It was the day after the meeting of the Hellgumists, and a Saturday. A blizzard was raging. The pastor, who had been called to the bedside of a sick person who lived way up at the north end of the great forest, was driving homeward late in the evening under great difficulties.
"You don't answer me," cried the old woman, "you don't tell what I want to know. Maybe you don't intend to take me along if no call comes to me!" "It will come, it will come!" the Hellgumists shouted. "You don't answer me!" screamed the old woman in a frenzy. "Dear Eva, we can't take you along if God doesn't call you!" the Hellgumists protested. "But the call will come, never fear."
Now he does nothing but run about to meetings, and fasts and prays, and fancies he hears the voice of God." "I don't see anything hurtful in all that," said Ingmar. "Felt was killing himself with drink when the Hellgumists took him into camp." "Well, you've got so many friends to lose that a little thing like this wouldn't matter to you.
The Hellgumists answered that they knew all this, and it was for that very reason they were going. They were going there in order to fight the smallpox and the fevers, to build roads and to till the soil. God's country should no longer lie waste; they would transform it into a paradise. And no one was able to turn them from their purpose.
It never entered her mind that any one could doubt the wisdom of leaving his native woodlands, his smiling river, and his fertile fields. Some of the Hellgumists thought with fear and trepidation of their having to change their manner of living, of renouncing fatherland, parents, friends, and relatives; but not she.
"I don't think that any of us will be afraid to suffer in the Lord's cause," Gunner assured him. All the Hellgumists had not yet arrived, and there was a long wait before the last one finally made his appearance. Old Eva Gunnersdotter, with her far-sighted eyes, meanwhile sat gazing at Hellgum's letter.
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