INTRODUCTION
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Like the river that flows irresistibly forward to the sea, like the light that breaks out of the darkness, so the man foreordained must come at last into his own.
That day, in the Court-house, the lamps alight—for the sun had withdrawn its rays—ashamed maybe longer to illumine such a scene—"The heathen did mightily rage,
And the people imagined a vain thing;
The lyings of the earth set themselves
And the rulers took counsel together."
But their wiles and ruses and arguments and serried strength
"Were dashed in pieces
Broken like a potter's vessel."
Gauntlet.
