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Memnoch came to a halt at the very threshold of this desert, so to speak, the place where ould leave the firround, rocky and uncoery of the sand
I caught up with hi fallen a little behind He put his left arainsta predictable apprehension; in fact, a dread was building in me, a premonition as bad as any I'd ever known
"After He cast me out," Memnoch said, "I wandered " His eyes were on the desert and what see rocky cliffs in the distance, hostile as the desert itself
"I roaless, and brokenhearted, I drifted along through the cities and nations of the earth, over continents and wastes Sometime or other I can tell you all of it, if you wish It's of no consequence now
"Let me say only what is of consequence, that I did not dare to st the God again; and not daring to join the huuise, for fear of God, and fear of what evil Ion humans On account of the same fearsI didn't return to Sheol I wanted in no way to increase the sufferings of Sheol God alone could free those souls What hope could I give them?
"But I could see Sheol, I could see its immensity, and I felt the pain of the souls there, and wondered at the new and intricate and ever-changing patterns of confusion created by mortals as they departed one faith or sect or creed after another for that loom
"Once a proud thought did coht instruct the souls there so thoroughly that they theht transform it, create in it forarden ht be made of it in timeCertainly the elect, the millions I had taken to Heaven, they had transformed their portion of the place But then what if I failed at this, and only added to the chaos? I didn't dare I didn't dare, out of fear of God and fear of my own inability to accomplish such a dream
"I forewhich I believed or felt or had spoken to God In fact, I prayed to Hi Him how much I continued to believe that He had deserted His finest creation And so His praises So
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"Little did I know un But at a certain ti back to the very valleys which I had first visited, and where the first cities of men had been built
"This land for reat peoples had sprung up in hters of Men And here that I had learnt so in the flesh which I still held that God did not Himself know
"Now, as I came to this place, I came into Jerusalem, which by the way is only six or seven miles west of here, wherestand
"And the tioverned the land, that the Hebrews had suffered a long and terrible captivity, and that those tribes going back to the very first settlements here¡ªwho had believed in the One God¡ªwere now under the foot of the polytheists who did not take their legends with any seriousness
"And the Tribes of Monotheists, the strict Pharisees, and others Sadducees, and still others having sought to make pure communities in caves in those hills beyond
"If there was one feature which made the times remarkable to ht of the Roman Empire, which stretched farther than any empire of the West which I had ever witnessed, and renorance of the Great Empire of China, as if that were not of the same world