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The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

           Hissubject,itappeared,hadbeentherelationbetweentheDeityandthecommunitiesofmankind,withaspecialreferencetotheNewEnglandwhichtheywerehereplantinginthewilderness.And,ashedrewtowardstheclose,aspiritasofprophecyhadcomeuponhim,constraininghimtoitspurposeasmightilyastheoldprophetsofIsraelwereconstrained,onlywiththisdifference,that,whereastheJewishseershaddenouncedjudgmentsandruinontheircountry,itwashismissiontoforetellahighandgloriousdestinyforthenewlygatheredpeopleoftheLord.But,throughoutitall,andthroughthewholediscourse,therehadbeenacertaindeep,sadundertoneofpathos,whichcouldnotbeinterpretedotherwisethanasthenaturalregretofonesoontopassaway.Yes;theirministerwhomtheysolovedandwhosolovedthemall,thathecouldnotdepartheavenwardwithoutasighhadtheforebodingofuntimelydeathuponhim,andwouldsoonleavethemintheirtears.Thisideaofhistransitorystayonearthgavethelastemphasistotheeffectwhichthepreacherhadproduced;itwasifanangel,inhispassagetotheskies,hadshakenhisbrightwingsoverthepeopleforaninstantatonceashadowandasplendourandhadsheddownashowerofgoldentruthsuponthem.

           Thus,therehadcometotheReverendMr.Dimmesdaleastomostmen,intheirvariousspheres,thoughseldomrecogniseduntiltheyseeitfarbehindthemanepochoflifemorebrilliantandfulloftriumphthananypreviousone,orthananywhichcouldhereafterbe.

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