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Lord of the World

CHAPTER I
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In no less than nine places--Damascus, Irkutsk, Constantinople, Calcutta, Benares, Nanking, among them--he was hailed as Messiah by a Mohammedan mob.

Finally, in America, where this extraordinary figure has arisen, all speak well of him.

He has been guilty of none of those crimes--there is not one that convicts him of sin--those crimes of the Yellow Press, of corruption, of commercial or political bullying which have so stained the past of all those old politicians who made the sister continent what she has become.
Mr.FELSENBURGH has not even formed a party.

He, and not his underlings, have conquered.

Those who were present in Paul's House on this occasion will understand us when we say that the effect of those words was indescribable.
"When Mr.MARKHAM sat down, there was a silence; then, in order to quiet the rising excitement, the organist struck the first chords of the Masonic Hymn; the words were taken up, and presently not only the whole interior of the building rang with it, but outside, too, the people responded, and the city of London for a few moments became indeed a temple of the Lord.
"Now indeed we come to the most difficult part of our task, and it is better to confess at once that anything resembling journalistic descriptiveness must be resolutely laid aside.


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