Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 12
“Martin understood that his dream had come true; and that the Saviour had really come to him that day, and he had welcomed him.”
"Where Love Is, God Is" (1885), also translated as "Where Love is, There God is Also" - (full text online)
Context: Martin's soul grew very very glad. He crossed himself put on his spectacles, and began reading the Gospel just where it had opened; and at the top of the page he read: I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in. And at the bottom of the page he read: Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren even these least, ye did it unto me (Matt. xxv). And Martin understood that his dream had come true; and that the Saviour had really come to him that day, and he had welcomed him.
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