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' A lone man strode through the fields. The summary wind skined tight his loose garment of goat’s hair thrown carelessly around his rawbony frame. Slowing down, the gaunt figure peered in several directions, then turning to the left, quickened his pace as if relucant to lose the minutes of stopping time . v.
Zechariah and Elizabeth had frequently told him the strange story pi his birth. The townpeople, 1 too, had looked ?on John with interest, wondering “What iis this child going to do for the Lord’s hand was upon him from the beginning.’’ But soon they grew forgetful. As , years passed and the chiitd became a youth, time veiled the miracle. Remembrance was faint among the villagers. Not so with the aged parents; for they constantly -reminded John of the manner1 in which the Lord had
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