Short Story about Old Woman

In a large town in that respect was an old woman who sat in the evening alone in her room thinking how she had lost first her husband, hence both her children, then one by one full her relations, and at length, that very day, her determination friend, and now she was quite alone and desolate. She was very sad at heart, and heaviest of completely her losses to her was that of her sons and in her pain she blamed God for it. She was still session lost in thought, when all at once she heard the bells doughnut for early prayer. She was surprised that she had thus in her sorrow watched through the whole night, and lighted her lantern and went to church.It was already lighted up when she arrived, but not as it prevalently was with wax candles, but with a dim light. It was also crowd already with people, and all the seats were filled and when the old woman got to her usual place it also was not empty, but the whole bench was alone full. And when she looked at the people, they wer e none other than her dead relations who were sitting there in their old-fashioned garments, but with pale faces. They neither spoke nor sing but a soft humming and whispering was heard all over the church. and then an aunt of hers stood up, stepped forward, and said to the poor old woman, determine there beside the altar, and thou wilt see thy sons. The old woman looked there, and maxim her two children, one hanging on the gallows, the other bound to the wheel. Then said the aunt, Behold, so would it have been with them if they had lived, and if the good God had not taken them to himself when they were innocent children. The old woman went trembling home, and on her knees thanked God for having dealt with her to a greater extent kindly than she had been able to understand, and on the third day she lay pot and died.