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 yet fearing to join company with him, he courteously invited them to repose and drink. Before accepting his offer, Sadoc uttered the inquiry which was ever uppermost in his mind, whether the Teacher had passed that way.

“He hath,—blessed be his name, and the name of Jehovah who sent him!”

“Thou believest on him!” said Sadoc with joy.

“I must needs believe on him,” old man, “for he hath wrought a great work of mercy on me. When yonder sun had been an hour above the mountains, all was dark as night to me, as it hath been for years past. I now see.”

“And the Prophet hath done this!”

“He laid his hands on me, and the blessed light returned to me. I have seen the face of my child, The sparkling of the waters also, and the fruit and leaves of these trees, greener and fairer than they were in my remembrance,—have gladdened my heart. Yet will they be more beautiful unto me to-morrow; for my sense is yet weak, and I can scarce even look upon you, though the face of man has been long as a dream unto me, and this hour is like