I also know that part of the world to be ripe for the reception of Him we go to find." A flush suffused the swarthy cheek of the speaker; but he overcame the feeling, and continued: "The years so given, O my brothers, were troubled by one thought--When I was gone, what would become of the cause I had started?
Was it to end with me?
I had dreamed many times of organization as a fitting crown for my work.

To hide nothing from you, I had tried to effect it, and failed.

Brethren, the world is now in the condition that, to restore the old Mizraimic faith, the reformer must have a more than human sanction; he must not merely come in God's name, he must have the proofs subject to his word; he must demonstrate all he says, even God.

So preoccupied is the mind with myths and systems; so much do false deities crowd every place--earth, air, sky; so have they become of everything a part, that return to the first religion can only be along bloody paths, through fields of persecution; that is to say, the converts must be willing to die rather than recant.
And who in this age can carry the faith of men to such a point but God himself?
To redeem the race--I do not mean to destroy it--to REDEEM the race, he must make himself once more manifest; HE MUST COME IN PERSON." Intense emotion seized the three.
"Are we not going to find him ?" exclaimed the Greek.
"You understand why I failed in the attempt to organize," said the Egyptian, when the spell was past.

"I had not the sanction.