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 death: and I verily believe it. The holy prophets have believed it, when they have been cast out from among men. They who have died in torments for the faith have believed it, and many who have mourned, and many who have been condemned under the law, and many who have died in a strange land.”

“I also have hope,” replied Sadoc, “but all the days of my life would I give into the hand of the Lord to know of a truth that the spirit dieth not. And thou, child, hast been among the dead! Hast thou slept as if the shadows of night were around thee? Or hast thou beheld Jehovah when he called forth the host of heaven? Hast thou been with him when he shook the earth, and uttered his thunders among the hills? Or hast thou found him in the holy of holies, and rested with him between the cherubim; or seen his spirit descend upon his Prophet; or gone forth with his angels to the ends of the earth and the fountains of the deep? O! that thy tongue could tell what thine eye hath seen!”

“If he hath seen these glories,” replied Michal, “the body is again unto his spirit as a cloud which hideth the sun.”