Ioannes stood up and embraced his wife. His heart almost broke into pieces because he loved his family, but he loved God even more. He didn’t understand how the Lord would command him to stand beside his family, but then this man demand that he leave them in God’s name. His family had lived in this parsonage for two centuries, and now he must hand it over to a second-born son of a nobleman who had no clue about the basics of the Bible.
Stephanus and Zacharia were leading the draught horses back to the wagons when they saw the guards marching their father off, so they came to a sudden stop.
“Go and finish the harvest. That should last you for some time!” Ioannes instructed them.
Chaplain Valentinus heard the message. He should have said that even those fields were the property of the chu
