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Updated: June 18, 2025
In an ante-room was a priceless crucifix in three different woods, from Ober-Ammergau; on the mantelpieces of three of the reception rooms were old French gilt clocks the kind found nowadays only in secluded and old inns of the Bohemian Quartier Latin, inns which the tourist never sees, and where "collectors" are to all intents unknown.
She is intensely selfish, and utterly inconsiderate of others; everlastingly complaining, and, in herself, drearily uninteresting. We travelled down in the omnibus from Ober-Ammergau with three perfect specimens of the species, accompanied by the usual miserable-looking man, who has had all the life talked out of him.
He was reading aloud, translating into English the German text of the narrative the Cure had given him: "And because of this divine interposition, consequent upon their faithful prayers and their oblations, they did perform these holy scenes from season to season, with solemn proof of piety and godly living, so that it seemed the life of the Lord our Shepherd was ever present with them, as though, indeed, Ober-Ammergau were Nazareth or Jerusalem.
Stead at Ober-Ammergau the night after witnessing the performance of the Passion Play. This is the story that transformed the world! This is the story that transformed the world! Yes, and will yet transform it! Yes, thank God, so the answer comes; and will yet transform it until the kingdom comes! This is the story that transformed the world.
I awoke shortly after midnight, after seeing the Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau, with these words floating backward and forward in my head like a peal of bells from some distant spire. Backward and forward they went and came, and came and went. This is the story that transformed the world! This is the story that transformed the world.
The Cure, taking heart, again continued: "Now I possess an authentic description of the Ober-Ammergau drama, giving details of its presentation at different periods, and also a book of the play.
He was reading aloud, translating into English the German text of the narrative the Cure had given him: "And because of this divine interposition, consequent upon their faithful prayers and their oblations, they did perform these holy scenes from season to season, with solemn proof of piety and godly living, so that it seemed the life of the Lord our Shepherd was ever present with them, as though, indeed, Ober-Ammergau were Nazareth or Jerusalem.
"The merest school-boy must know all about the Ober-Ammergau Passion Play by this time." "What has that to do with you?" answers B. "You are not writing for cultured school-boys. You are writing for mere simple men and women.
They were also very indignant because the people at the house where they had lodged had offered to shake hands with them at parting. They did not come to Ober-Ammergau to be treated on terms of familiarity by German peasants, they said. There are many women in the world who are in every way much better than angels.
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