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Seraiah passed above the spot where the sorrowful Christian stood,

crossed the great causeway leading toward the Royal Portico and after

him six thousand blind and insane enthusiasts followed, expecting

ihts of Moriah, now veiled

in sreat white bank of stairs they rushed after hi an ordeal which h a

curtain of luate pillared in fla with the tread of the advancing Destroyer,

out into the great Court of Gentiles wrapped in cloud through which

the Teh the Gate

Beautiful where the Keeper no longer stood, thence into the Wo stones tier upon tier till

the roof of the Royal Portico was reached

At the brink of the pinnacle, they saw through tuhThey who had folloatched, uplifted with

terror and frenzy, and while they waited for the miracle which should

save, the roof crurave of thrice heated rock

received them and covered them up

Below, Nathan, the Christian, seized upon the shoulders of the

Maccabee as he was dashing after the thousands His face was black

with terror for Laodice He struggled to throw off Nathan, crying

futilely against the uproar that Laodice was perishing

"Comfort thee!" the Christian shouted in his ear "She is saved She