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| His wife, nominally of the Mennonite faith, was quite willing to accept her husband's creed. | Жена его, формально исповедовавшая учение меннонитов, охотно приняла вероисповедание мужа. |
| And so his household became a God-fearing one; wherever they went their first public step was to ally themselves with the local Lutheran church, and the minister was always a welcome guest in the Gerhardt home. | Итак, семейство было вполне богобоязненное. Куда бы не приезжали Герхардты, они прежде всего вступали в число прихожан местной лютеранской церкви, и священник становился желанным гостем в их доме. |
| Pastor Wundt, the shepherd of the Columbus church, was a sincere and ardent Christian, but his bigotry and hard-and-fast orthodoxy made him intolerant. | Мистер Вундт, пастырь лютеран города Колумбуса, был искренним и ревностным христианином, и притом слепым, нетерпимым фанатиком. |
| He considered that the members of his flock were jeopardizing their eternal salvation if they danced, played cards, or went to theaters, and he did not hesitate to declare vociferously that hell was yawning for those who disobeyed his injunctions. | Он полагал, что, танцуя, играя в карты или посещая театр, его прихожане рискуют спасением души, и без колебаний, во всю силу своих легких провозглашал, что те, кто не повинуется его предписаниям, будут ввергнуты в ад. |
| Drinking, even temperately, was a sin. | Пить, даже умеренно, - грех. |
| Smoking-well, he smoked himself. | Курить... ну, он и сам курил. |
| Right conduct in marriage, however, and innocence before that state were absolute essentials of Christian living. | Целомудрие до брака и затем соблюдение его святости строго обязательны для каждого христианина. |
| Let no one talk of salvation, he had said, for a daughter who had failed to keep her chastity unstained, or for the parents who, by negligence, had permitted her to fall. | Нет спасения, говорил он, той девушке, которая не сумеет соблюсти своей чистоты, и родителям, которые допустят, чтобы дочь согрешила. |
| Hell was yawning for all such. | Они будут ввергнуты в ад. |
| You must walk the straight and narrow way if you would escape eternal punishment, and a just God was angry with sinners every day. | Неуклонно следуйте стезей добродетели, дабы избегнуть вечной кары, ибо гнев праведного господа неминуемо настигнет грешника. |
| Gerhardt and his wife, and also Jennie, accepted the doctrines of their Church as expounded by Mr. Wundt without reserve. | Г ерхардт, его жена и Дженни безоговорочно принимали учение своей церкви в истолковании мистера Вундта. |