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 forcing his body against the door and straining the fingers back from his palms, so that the palms lay exposed and helpless. An unendurable pain in his hands, in his feet—an unendurable pain.

'Lord, if You are with me still do not stay do not suffer' But the words sank down and were lost in a bottomless pit of physical anguish.

His head moved quickly from side to side as though he were trying to see those hands, to comprehend the cause of such suffering. Then it drooped as though he would see his feet and look on the rood they had nailed beneath them. But presently he became very still and his dying eyes gazed out to the east—to the east where the flaming, majestic dawn rose over the world like a resurrection. 490