The glory of the Lord God Almighty! He knew he should see it.
"My dear God is trying me," he said; and he sat there through the fierce heat of the afternoon.

Still he watched and waited when the sun began to slope, and when it neared the horizon and the sheep began to cast long shadows across the karoo, he still sat there.

He hoped when the first rays touched the hills till the sun dipped behind them and was gone.
Then he called his ewes together, and broke down the altar, and threw the meat far, far away into the field.
He walked home behind his flock.

His heart was heavy.

He reasoned so: "God cannot lie.