"Does the Bible say they do?"
"It says they will. And it says 'Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills be joyful together before the Lord; for He cometh!'—"
"But that is very strange too," said Flora. "'He cometh to judge the earth;' I know the chant; but it seems solemn and dreadful, and it is sung in the minor key."
"I know," said Mr. Murray. "The composer did not understand the rejoicing either."
"But how can any one, Mr. Murray?"
"Those 'that love His appearing,' Miss Flora?"
"I suppose I am very bad, Mr. Murray; but I tell you just how I feel. That seems to me the most awful of times, and nothing but awful."
"Perfectly correct, Miss Flora, and just as it is described in the Bible. When the kings and the great men and the rich men will say to the mountains and to the rocks, 'Fall on us, and hide us!'—"
"But you talk of being glad?" said Flora, looking a good deal troubled.
"Ay, but I was thinking of the other party," said Mr. Murray gravely,—"from whom will go up a very different cry, a shout of gladness—'Lo, this is our God! we have waited for Him, and He will save us.'"