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THE RESURRECTION
Now I noticed that there was given to each traveller a map of the road, drawn out with all the dangers and turns marked on it, showing where each lane would lead, and the danger of leaving the right path for a single moment. Besides this, each traveller had presented to him a lamp, and was told how to hold and use it. That it was to be of no use unless he held it down to his feet. Now I looked, and some of them soon forgot the directions given, and held their lamps high above their heads. It gave them light, but only at a distance, and every now and then they stumbled and almost fell. But those
