Moses, in the grace of the One Priesthood, three to bear witness on earth. Thus they were of three orders, and the dress of one order was not like the dress of another order; for so I knew them by their dress. And they were divided into companies, and the overseers of the companies had two staves, one they called Beauty, and the other they called Bands, to feed the flock; and they had mitres upon their heads; only, on the head of one, I saw a tiara, unlike the mitres on the heads of his brethren; and he that had the tiara claimed, when they came within the city, to sit above his brethren that had the mitres, which when his brethren that had the mitres saw, they said it had not been so from the beginning, and communed together and were sad.

And the priests that I saw were men of every tongue and color and nation of the earth. And when I would know the meaning of this multitude, my interpreter said, Six days, a day for a thousand years, have passed heavily away; the Sabbath, to give rest to a troubled world, is near; and these are the sons of Antipas, the faithful Witness, going up to the Sabbatical or Seventh Council of the universal Church, to bear testimony, for the last time, to that which was from the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, even to Him, which is, and which was, and which is to come.

And when the multitude came up to the Mount of Olives, and the city was now full in their view, and they could see its streets of gold and its ivory palaces, I heard them sing a Song of Degrees, which they sang by course, and their singing was like the chanting of the cherubim, and thus they sang as they

Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion; on the sides of the north, the city of the great King!

For there are set thrones of judgment: the thrones of the house of David.

O go your way into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and speak good of His name.

Our feet shall stand within thy gates: O Jerusalem.

As we have heard, so have we seen: Jerusalem is builded as a city that is at unity in itself.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her; tell ye the towers thereof.

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces; they shall prosper that love thee.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Thus they went into the gates of the city, which opened of themselves to let them in. And when they were set down in a place appointed, each one according to his rank, I saw in my dream that one came in, in the form a servant, and sat before the council. And lo! upon His back the furrows wherewith He had been ploughed, and His face was marred with shame, and spitting, and the marks of blows that men had given Him; and there was a crown of thorns upon His head; His eyes were held with a napkin, and His robe was taken from Him; and there were prints of sharp iron in His hands, and in His feet, and in His side, and He seemed as one that treadeth in the wine-press; and one said, Ecce Homo! And one said, What are these wounds in thy hands? And He said, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. And another said, Wherefore art Thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-press? And He said, I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me

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Then understood I that it was the Lord. And when I the staves of the overseers, and the mitres, and the priests' vestments, I shut my eyes, and put my fingers in my cars, lest I should see or hear some fresh indignity done to Him; for I had heard always, from a child, that these were the marks of Antichrist. But when the council saw Him, they cried out, above the space of an hour, "Oh! it is the King in His beauty!" And they fell upon the earth, and became as dead men. Then they that had garments spread them in the way, and they that had mitres cast them down at His feet, and he that had the tiara threw it to the earth among the mitres before Him, and they cried one to another, above the space of an hour, "Lo! this is our God! we have waited for Him, and He will save us: This is the Lord; we have waited for Him, we will rejoice and be glad in His salvation!" Then all the bells of the city began to ring, and the "streets were filled with trumpeters and players upon instruments," and the light of the city was clear as crystal, and the children in the streets cried, "Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna!" and the stones in the streets joined in the cry, and all the trees of the field clapped their hands. Then He in the form of a servant, looking on them with a look I never beheld until then, said, "It is expedient for you that I go away, but I will come to you again." And with that, as He breathed on them, and said, Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world," He was caught up into heaven. And I saw ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, casting their crowns at His feet, and they rested not day nor night, falling down and crying,-" Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive honor, and glory, and might, and dominion, and riches, and power, and blessing!"

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After this I saw that the whole council ate bread and drank wine together, and they gave each other the kiss of peace, and they washed each other's feet. And again there was

great joy in the city, and the streets were filled with trumpeters, and the bells rang so that the nations in the uttermost parts of the earth heard them, and came running to the gates of the city. And when the angels at the gates had washed them, and set "the sign of the Son of Man" in their foreheads, they let them in. And when they were entered into the city, I saw that some went forth to meet them and said, "Welcome, brothers!" And they said, "All hail!” and fell upon their necks and kissed them. And they said, Brothers, whence come ye?" And some answered and said, "From the regions of Babylon, which is by interpretation, Confusion, are we come;" and with that they broke out into a song, with timbrels and dances,-" Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we are escaped."

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So "I awoke, and wished myself among them."

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CHAPTER XI.

SCHISM.

As in a circle a thousand radii meet at a single point, so truth-I mean moral truth-is central in its nature, and may be approached by a variety of avenues. A truth in mathematics can usually be reached but by one line of reasoning, and depends essentially on the link that immediately precedes it in the chain. But, in the moral world, an important truth is reached by many and different lines of reasoningno one of them, in the present obscuration of our moral nature, demonstrative in itself alone, because God never intended that truths so high should hang by a single thread— but all of them, when pursued, leading by various routes to one result, and producing the same conviction in varieties of mind, by varieties of reasoning. How surpassingly grand, on this account, are the demonstrations of providence, of God, of immortality, of revelation, of judgment! We reach the truth upon these points by a line of reasoning, and we wonder and adore. Again we go back, and by another route, we find ourselves at the same goal, and our wonder increases. Once more we set out, and still the new route conducts us to the old result, and new wonder fills our hearts. Away, then, with the boast of your exact sciences, that coldly compel belief, and bind upon living limbs the icy links of their resistless chain! Away with the infidelity that demands for a