Father Martin had lived carefully all his days in order to save enough money to enable him to fulfill the dream of his life, a visit to his birthplace across the seas. On the eve of his departure, a parishioner came and confessed a theft, ...See moreFather Martin had lived carefully all his days in order to save enough money to enable him to fulfill the dream of his life, a visit to his birthplace across the seas. On the eve of his departure, a parishioner came and confessed a theft, exposure of which would spell his ruin. The amount of the theft was the same as Father Martin had accumulated. The clergyman, on hearing of the young man's plight, hesitated only a moment, when, with magnanimous nobility, he gave up that which was his dearest passion, to save a soul from disgrace. More noble charity would be difficult to conceive. Written by
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