I am warned of the coming of great events, and borrow somewhat from thy faith.

Complete the obligation, I pray thee, by telling further of the mission of him for whom thou art waiting, and for whom from this night I too shall wait as becomes a believing son of Judah.

He is to be a Savior, thou saidst; is he not to be King of the Jews also ?" "My son," said Balthasar, in his benignant way, "the mission is yet a purpose in the bosom of God.

All I think about it is wrung from the words of the Voice in connection with the prayer to which they were in answer.

Shall we refer to them again ?" "Thou art the teacher." "The cause of my disquiet," Balthasar began, calmly--"that which made me a preacher in Alexandria and in the villages of the Nile; that which drove me at last into the solitude where the Spirit found me--was the fallen condition of men, occasioned, as I believed, by loss of the knowledge of God.