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Island of Patmos; Herod Antipas, "that fox," had passed to his own

place, prisoner and exile, sacrifice to a ed himself; Pilate had drowned himself; thousands of the

saints had died for the faith by fire and sword and wild beasts; kings

had been converted and of the believers in Rohout the whole world

Laodice sat with clasped hands, intent on each word as it fell fro at one and the sadom of Heaven constructed and her drea

"He said," the Christian continued, "They that are whole need not a

physician; but they that are sick I cahteous,

but sinners to repentance"

Repentance was a rite for Laodice, a payhteously inclined, a thing that could in no wise purify the

sinner as to ht The old

Christian's use of the as different; he had said that the

Messiah ca

Jewess been less in need of comfort in her own consciousness of

spiritual delinquency she would have set down the old teacher as one

of the idlest dealers in contradiction But now she listened with

keener zest; perchance in this doctrine there was balm for her hurt

Sheof this new interest

and then with infinite poetry and earnestness he began to unfold the

teachings of Christ