“That is their character; but we’ve a transforming gospel; no man as old as he and companion of such advocates of the White Kingdom as the Hospitaler and Nourahmal, could talk as did that old man to kill time or conventionally.—But you do not study your parchment.” Cornelius, recalled by Miriamne’s words, unfolded the document given him by the camel-driver, and read aloud:
“My son and my daughter: Greeting; the streams of gospel blessing rising in the springs of your mountain temple reach refreshingly even unto Jerusalem, as I daily perceive. Therefore, for your consolation and for the enkindling of your pious zeal, I herewith send these lines. Work onward, beloved, believing, hoping you have arrived at the dawn of a new revelation and well commenced a true work for God. To-day, as I sought to interpret His prophecies, it came to me that that you are attempting to do is nigh to being a fulfillment of His word as recorded in the manner following by Ezekiel:
“Then the glory of the Lord departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
“And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
“The word of the Lord came unto me, saying:
“Thus saith the Lord God: I will assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
“And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations.
“And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within, and I will take the stony heart.
“That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
“Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.