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language and his were identical, except that he spoke of 

 the Word of God in Scripture, where she spoke of the 

 Voice of God in her soul. Both wished to obey the 

 church. This was God, speaking to the soul or speaking 

 in the Scripture. The time came to Joan when the church 

 said : ' Deny the Voices of God in your heart.' The time 

 came to Luther when the church said : ' Deny the Word 

 of God in the Bible.' Then both became virtually Prot- 

 estants, and obeyed the higher law as against the lower 

 one. The girl of Domremy was a Protestant before the 

 Eeformatiou." And her spirit was to live again in the 

 Huguenots. 



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