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"Readest thou the lesson in these glowing spheres, tee?" ether "Know that not one s before thee, holds a single human creature who doubts his Maker Not one! except thine own doo feebly, like a faint flame amid sunshine--how poor a speck it is--how like a scarcely visible point in all the brilliancy of the ever-revolving wheel of Life! Yet there dwell the dwarfs of clay--the men and women who pretend to love while they secretly hate and despise one another There, wealth is a god, and the greed of gain a virtue There, genius starves, and heroism dies unrewarded There, faith is n monarch of the people There, the subliled over by poor finite minds who cannot call their lives their own There, nation wars against nation, creed against creed, soul against soul Alas, fated planet! how soon shalt thou be extinct, and thy place shall know thee no uide "If that is true," I said, "why then should we have a legend that God, in the person of one called Christ, cas?"

Azul answered not, but turned her lu wonder So force bore me onward, and before I could realize it I was alone Alone, in a vast area of light through which I floated, serene and conscious of power A sound falling froan-chord, and then like a voice, tru

"Spirit that searchest for the Unseen," it said, "because I will not that no atoiven a vision--unto thee shall be taught a lesson thou drean and plan; THOU shalt be worshipped, and THOU shalt destroy! Rest therefore in the light and behold the things that are in the light, for the tune cometh when all that seemeth clear and visible now shall be but darkness And they that love me not shall have no place of abode in that hour!"

The voice ceased Awed, yet consoled, I listened for it again There was no ht--illie scene unfolded itself swiftly beforedream that was a reality, yet so wonderfully unreal--a vision that ience; a kind of spirit-drama in which I was forced to enact the chief part, and where a mystery that I had deemed impenetrable was made perfectly clear and simple of comprehension