And there was the sea....

and beyond it, nations of men innumerable ....

His imagination was dizzy with thinking of them.

Were they all doomed--lost ?....

Had God no love for them?
At last, recovering himself, he recollected his errand, and again asked his way to the archbishop's house.
'This way, O youthful nonentity!' answered the little man, leading the way round the great front of the Caesareum, at the foot of the obelisks.
Philammon's eye fell on some new masonry in the pediment, ornamented with Christian symbols.
'How?
Is this a church ?' 'It is the Caesareum.