They saw
the truth before those whom the world delights to honour as its
political redeemers; but they have perished utterly from our
recollection, and will never be mentioned in history. Will there
ever be a great Day of Assize when a just judgment shall be
pronounced; when all the impostors who have been crowned for what
they did not deserve will be stripped, and the Divine word will be
heard calling upon the faithful to inherit the kingdom,--who, when "I
was an hungered gave me meat, when I was thirsty gave me drink; when
I was a stranger took me in; when I was naked visited me; when I was
in prison came unto me?" Never! It was a dream of an enthusiastic
Galilean youth, and let us not desire that it may ever come true.
Let us rather gladly consent to be crushed into indistinguishable
dust, with no hope of record: rejoicing only if some infinitesimal
portion of the good work may be achieved by our obliteration, and
content to be remembered only in that anthem which in the future it
will be ordained shall be sung in our religious services in honour of
all holy apostles and martyrs who have left no name.
The night before the special meeting a gentleman in a blue cloak, and
with a cigar in his mouth, sauntered past the entrance to Carter's
Rents, where Mr.
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