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The unfortunate wife of a socialist.
The newspaper La Croix de Calais reported the following fact in 1897: A socialist boasted in the inn before his companions that he had finally succeeded, after three years, in making his wife lose her faith. Applause all around. But when he returned home in the evening, he saw a large crowd in front of his house. He inquired and learned that a terrible misfortune had just happened there. When he entered his home, he found his wife and three children on the floor, not giving any sign of life. His wife had placed a bill beside her with these words: “As long as I had faith, I bore all the pains of life with patience, for love of God; but since my miserable husband had made me lose faith, I am unhappy to the highest degree. I don’t want my children to be unhappy too, so I have poisoned them with me.”
– This is what man can be with or without faith. The unbeliever is like a shipwrecked person without hope.
