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Chariot of Xerxes. Camp followers. Arrival at the plain of Troy. The grand sacrifice. Dejection of the army. Mode of enlistment. Condition of the soldiers. Privations and hardships. Storm on Mount Ida. Abydos. Parade of the troops. Xerxes weeps. The reason of it. Comments of writers. Remarks of Artabanus. Conversation with Artabanus. He renews his warnings. Anxiety of Artabanus.
More than once when blatant blasphemers, agents of Apleon, had openly opposed them, and cursed them and their witnessing, these witnesses of Jesus Christ, "the faithful and true witness," had sent forth fire from themselves and consumed their enemies. And the world had learned to fear them, though they ignored their warnings.
They now heard of the exact accomplishment of obscure predictions, of the punishment of crimes over which the justice of heaven had seemed to slumber, of dreams, omens, warnings from the dead, of princesses, for whom noble suitors contended in every generous exercise of strength and skill, of infants, strangely preserved from the dagger of the assassin, to fulfil high destinies.
The farms inland were snowed up; men had to dig pathways into the open fields, and lead the horses in one by one; but of accidents he knew nothing. All activities came to a standstill. No one could do any work, and everything had to be used sparingly especially coals and oil, both of which threatened to give out. The merchants had issued warnings as early as the beginning of the second week.
It must seem almost incredible that I could have failed to see that Weston and Johnson were making fun of me; and I confess that it was not for want of warnings that I had made a fool of myself.
Visions and warnings, threats and exhortations, haunted his pillow and disturbed his sleep, all tending to one object, the invasion of Greece. As we learn from Ctesias that the eunuch Natacas was one of the parasites most influential with Xerxes, it is probable that so important a personage in the intrigues of a palace was, with the evident connivance of the magi, the instrument of Mardonius.
There was something so painfully wild so solemnly prophetic in these sounds of sorrow as they fell faintly upon the ear, and especially under the extraordinary circumstances of the night, that they might have been taken for the warnings of some supernatural agency. During their utterance, not even the breathing of human life was to be heard in the ranks.
Then M. Dubuis hurriedly jumped on the platform, and, in spite of the warnings of the station master, dashed into the adjoining compartment. He was alone! He tore open his waistcoat, his heart was beating so rapidly, and, gasping for breath, he wiped the perspiration from his forehead. The train drew up at another station.
Yes, my friends, let us lay to heart, even upon this joyful day, the awful warnings of the Epistle to the Hebrews, God, the I Am, has spoken to us; God, the I Am, is speaking to us now.
The Pyramids lay on the left bank of the Nile, in the silver moonshine, massive and awful, as if bruising the earth beneath them with their weight; the giant graves of mighty rulers. They seemed examples of man's creative power, and at the same time warnings of the vanity and mutability of earthly greatness.
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