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"Another depository of this kind upon an island in the river a few miles above gave it the name of Sepulcher Island. The Watlala, a tribe of the Upper Tsinuk, whose burial place is here described, are now nearly extinct; but a number of the sepulchers still remain in different states of preservation.
"Yes," said this old Raimbaut, "and even to-day we have not reclaimed the Sepulcher as yet. Oh, I doubt if we shall ever win it, now that your brother and my most dear lord is dead." Both thought a while of Boniface de Montferrat, their playmate once, who yesterday was King of Thessalonica and now was so much Macedonian dust.
While the house became filled with people and heavy steps, commanding voices, and the clank of sabers and spurs resounded on all sides, the afflicted maiden reclined half-kneeling before a picture of the Virgin represented in that sorrowful loneliness perceived only by Delaroche, as if he had surprised her returning from the sepulcher of her Son.
The purpose is, as far as may be, to share the sorrows of the Saviour and to follow him step by step on the way of his sufferings to the cross and sepulcher. Then comes the prologue, solemnly intoned, of which the most striking words are these: "Nicht ewig zürnet Er Ich will, so spricht der Herr, Den Tod des Sünders nicht." "He will not be angry forever.
I now return to the thread of my history. How, Upon Herod's Going Down Into David's Sepulcher, The Sedition In His Family Greatly Increased.
Touching the whole resurrection problem all of the gospels agree upon several important matters: In giving no description of the resurrection itself; that the evidence of it began with the women's visit to the sepulcher in the early morning; that the first sign was the removal of the stone; that they saw angels before they saw the Lord; that manifestations were granted to none but disciples; that the disciples were not expecting such manifestations; that at first they received these manifestations with hesitancy and doubt; that these appearances were made to all kinds of witnesses, male and female, individuals and companies; that they were so convinced of his resurrection and appearance to them that nothing could cause them to doubt it.
Bones of dead buffalo, bones of dead horses, bones of dead men. The tribute exacted by the Kansas prairie: bones. A waste of bones, a sepulcher that did not hide its bones, but spread them, exulting in its treasures, to bleach and crumble under the stern sun upon its sterile wastes.
Fourth, initiation of formal negotiation with central municipal authorities of same State with twofold purpose: preserve for posterity immediate directly threatened neighborhood Most Holy Tomb of the Founder of the Faith on outskirts of Akká, and acquire extensive, sorely needed properties in vicinity of Báb’s Sepulcher destined serve as site of future edifices envisaged by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to house auxiliary agencies revolving around twin institutions of Guardianship and House of Justice.
Beneath the flooding radiance sprawled Keeper and the great inert Globe that was the Goddess woman's sepulcher. The crater filled with the pallid luminescence. Faster and ever faster it poured down into the Pit. And from all the lesser craters of the smaller cones swept silent cataracts of the same pale radiance. The City began to crumble the Monster to fall.
After all, a claim and title to territory or native land is but a claim and attachment to the dust of earth. We live upon this earth for a few days and then rest beneath it forever. So it is our graveyard eternally. Shall man fight for the tomb which devours him, for his eternal sepulcher? What ignorance could be greater than this? To fight over his grave, to kill another for his grave!
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