No One Can Hide from the Judgment
No ONE can hide from the Judgment. A century ago an infidel German countess, dying, gave orders that her grave should be covered with a solid slab of granite; that around it should be placed square blocks of stone, and that the whole should be fastened together by strong iron clamps. On the stone, by her order, these words were cut: "This burial place, purchased to all eternity, must never be opened." Thus she defied the Almighty. But a little seed sprouted under the covering, and the tiny shoot found its way through between two of the slabs, and grew there, slowly and surely, until it burst the clamps asunder, and lifted the immense blocks. No wonder the people of Hanover look at that tree and that opening grave as God's answer to the terrible defiance of the young countess. Certain it is that no one can hide from that universal exposition.—Selected.