The wedding took place in the lower story, but the library was illuminated, and the Adventists who had occasion to pass by Andrew's on their way to the rendezvous accepted this as a new fulfillment of prophecy to the very letter.

They nodded one to another, and said, "See! marrying and giving in marriage, as in the days of Noah!" August and Julia were too much awe-stricken to say much on their way to the castle.

But in these last hours of a world grown old and ready for its doom, they cleaved closer together.

There could be neither heaven nor millennium for one of them without the other! Loving one another made them love God the more, and love cast out all fear.

If this was the Last, they would face it together, and if it proved the Beginning, they would rejoice together.