them gave He power to become the sons of God.'
And just for a moment he was conscious again of that
sickening sensation of physical terror. Then his strong
young instinct of self-preservation, which was always so
ready to come to his assistance, leapt up, in its turn,
to defeat that saying: ;It means,5 he thought violently,
cthat when we are dead we also may be with Jesus
in heaven. That is what those words mean. What
else can they mean? Who would dare to make him-
self the equal of Christ? Not the Cure, not Jan, not
even the saints.5 And he frowned, el must certainly
stop all this thinking which the Cure would say
leads to great foolishness, and, moreover, to what is
far worse — presumption. When I go to Mass I will
beg our Lord to make me very simple and humble.5
In this wise Christophe sought to explain those
things by which his humanity was so sorely troubled.

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