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'What an excellent doctor He must have been, to make 

 dead men live!' This led me to describe His power, and 

 how that power would be exercised at the last day in raising 

 the dead. In the course of my remarks, the ear of the 

 monarch caught the startling sound of a resurrection. 

 'What!' he exclaimed, with astonishment, c what are these 

 words about ? the dead, the dead arise!' ' Yes,' was my 

 reply, ' all the dead shall arise.' * Will my father arise ? ' 

 ' Yes,' I answered, ' your father will arise.' ' Will all the 

 slain in battle arise?' ' Yes.' ' And will all that have been 

 killed and devoured by lions, tigers, hyenas and crocodiles, 

 again revive?' ' Yes ; and come to judgment.' 'And will 

 those whose bodies have been left to waste and to wither 

 on the desert plains, and scattered to the winds, again 

 arise?' he asked, with a kind of triumph, as if he had now 

 fixed me. 'Yes,' I replied, 'not one will be left behind/ 

 This I repeated with increased emphasis. After looking at 

 me for a few moments, he turned to his people, to whom he 

 spoke with a stentorian voice : — ' Hark, ye wise men, who- 

 ever is among you, the wisest of past generations, did ever 

 your ears hear such strange and unheard of news ? ' And 

 addressing himself to one, whose countenance and attire 

 shewed that he had seen many years, and was a personage 

 of no common order, ' Have you ever heard such strange 

 news as this?' 'No,' was the sage's answer: c \ had sup- 

 posed that I possessed all the knowledge of the country, for 

 I have heard the tales of many generations. I am in the 

 place of the ancients, but my knowledge is confounded 

 with the words of his mouth. Surely he must have lived 

 long before the period when we were born.' Makaba, then 

 turning and addressing himself to me, and laying his hand 

 on my breast, said, ' Father, I love you much. Your visit 

 and your presence have made my heart white as milk. The 

 words of your mouth are sweet as honey, but the words of 

 a resurrection are too great to be heard. I do not wish to 



