Sayfa 56 / 1294

"Why am I to be pitied, you say? Yes! there's nothing to pity me

for! I ought to be crucified, crucified on a cross, not pitied!

Crucify me, oh judge, crucify me but pity me! And then I will go

of myself to be crucified, for it's not merry-making I seek but

tears and tribulation!... Do you suppose, you that sell, that

this pint of yours has been sweet to me? It was tribulation I

sought at the bottom of it, tears and tribulation, and have found

it, and I have tasted it; but He will pity us Who has had pity on

all men, Who has understood all men and all things, He is the

One, He too is the judge. He will come in that day and He will

ask: 'Where is the daughter who gave herself for her cross,

consumptive step-mother and for the little children of another?

Where is the daughter who had pity upon the filthy drunkard, her

earthly father, undismayed by his beastliness?' And He will say,

'Come to me! I have already forgiven thee once.... I have

forgiven thee once....