"Before us lie many days of companionship.
It is time we knew each other.

So, if it be agreeable, he who came last shall be first to speak." Then, slowly at first, like one watchful of himself, the Greek began: "What I have to tell, my brethren, is so strange that I hardly know where to begin or what I may with propriety speak.

I do not yet understand myself.

The most I am sure of is that I am doing a Master's will, and that the service is a constant ecstasy.

When I think of the purpose I am sent to fulfil, there is in me a joy so inexpressible that I know the will is God's." The good man paused, unable to proceed, while the others, in sympathy with his feelings, dropped their gaze.
"Far to the west of this," he began again, "there is a land which may never be forgotten; if only because the world is too much its debtor, and because the indebtedness is for things that bring to men their purest pleasures.