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is now? He has called Eben the son of Hannah the widow woman of Will to preach the Fair Word. Wise indeed is the White Jesus to give His little servant the strength to sing the Gospel.”
Eben came home and said to his mother Hannah:
“Mam fach, the talent the Almighty gave me is for preaching.”
“Eben, why you are so vain?” Hannah said to him.
But Hannah published the news to the men who sat in the Big Seat in Capel Sion, so it came about that Old Bensha of the Road, in order to prove him, requested him to say a little prayer in the Seiet.
Beautiful and songlike was the supplication that Eben offered: he sang mournfully for those at sea, for sinners that worshipped in places other than Capel Sion; he sang joyously for the First Men who occupied the high places, for the many blessings poured upon the congregation,
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