So I count every hour a chime,
Every throb of my heart’s beating
That tells of the flight of Time.
I will not fear at His coming,
Although I must meet Him alone,
He will look in my eyes so gently
And take my hand in His own.”
An uneventful year passed over the missioners, but it was followed quickly by eventful times.
Two messages came, one after the other, and not far apart, to Jerusalem, which moved all the Christian colony at the latter place, but especially Cornelius and his consort. The first was from Father Adolphus and as follows: