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"I saw Him come to Jerusale their ht tread upon thele su could overlook Jerusalem

"On that hill," he said, "while the multitudes hailed Him and the

sound of Alleluia shook the air, He reined in His meek beast and

looked upon this city, and wept over it When He spoke, He said, If

thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things

which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes For

the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench

about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee;

and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou

knewest not the time of thy visitation

[Illustration: "And there His enemies crucified Him"] "And three days later, I saw the Rock of David and all that multitude

follow Him unto the Hill of the Skull and there His enemies crucified

Him!"

After a paralyzed silence, Laodice whispered with frozen lips, "In God's name, why?"

But he wisely did not pause with the calas of Christianity to tell, a long narrative that contained as

yet no doght on the road to Daht a good fight and

had cohteousness; Peter had established the

Church and had fed the sheep and had been offered up by the Beast who

was Nero; John the Divine was seeing visions of the Apocalypse in the