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Between the tarring bodies, one orderly, prepared but

apprehensive, the otherstill went on at the breach in the walls, but the supreme

conflict of a comparatively small body of soldiers and an uncounted

horde was not yet precipitated

Ordinarily, the Roman army could have reduced any popular insurrection

with half that nuionaries

confronted desperate citizens ere si their oay

to die Reason and hu since had ceased to inspire the a prophet because it was the

final respite before despair There was no alternative It was death

whatever they did, unless, in truth, this splendid sorceress was

indeed the Voice of the Risen Prince Force would be of no avail

against theainst Rome; only some other

madness would turn the position, expected anything

It was the moment which would show if the false prophet would triuions went down before the e woman over Israel, and the obliteration of the

faith in Jesus Christ in the Holy Land

It can not be said that the Christian watched the crisis with a calm

spirit He did not wish to see the heathen overthrow the ancient

people of God, nor could he behold the triuether and prayed

A figure appeared between the two bodies of corapple

It was a tall colittered for