He looked up into the heavens above him, and he felt as though a great work yet lay before him.

He broke out into songs of praise and thanksgiving.

It seemed to him as though he saw written in the sky glorious promises for those who should endure steadfastly to the end.
There was something of the prophetic spirit in the man.

At times the world about him would recede from him, and he would be left, as it were, alone upon some vast immeasurable height, seeing as in a dream the things of God and the mysteries of the heavenlies stretched out before him.

Such a moment came upon him late in that day as he journeyed.