The Jewish Girl by Hans Christian Andersen. Short summary

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A Jewish girl, Sara, likes her lessons in God’s law. But she promised her late mother to remain faithful to the faith of her fathers. She grows up and dies with an affinity for Christianity and goes to heaven after she dies.

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A Jewish girl, Sarah, listened with great interest to the teacher at school in her Law of God class. Seeing her burning eyes, the teacher realizes that the girl knows Christianity better than his students.

The teacher went to the girl’s father, who told him that her late mother, when she was dying, had made him promise that Sarah would never be baptized. The father took the girl out of school.

As time passed, Sarah grew older and began working in the couple’s service. Christianity continued to beckon to her, and when she heard the story of the Turkish prisoner being baptized before he died, she cried. But she kept her word to her mother.

Much more time passed. The master died and the mistress became ill. She often asked Sarah to read to her about Christ. Sarah stayed with the sick woman day and night.

One day, she had an epiphany and realized that water baptism was not necessary for believing in Christ. Then she dropped dead.
Sarah was buried behind the church fence as a Jewess. But she went to heaven, for Christ had said that He would baptize with the Holy Spirit.