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it, and that is the portion which He hurled into the garden of Hughes-Jones's house. On a sudden the revels ceased: the bread of the feast was stone and the tea water, and the songs of the angels were hushed, and the strings of the harps and viols were withered, and the hammers were dough, and the mountains sank into Hell, and behold Satan in the pulpit which was an iron cage. The Prophets hurried into the Judgment Hall with questions, and lo God was in a cloud, and He spoke out of the cloud. "I am angry," He said, "that Welsh Nonconformists have not heard my name. Who are the Welsh Nonconformists?" The Prophets were silent, and God mourned: "My Word is the earth and I peopled the earth with my spittle; and I appointed my Prophets to watch over my people, and the watchers slept and my children strayed." Thus too said the Lord: "That hour I devour my children who have forsaken me, that hour I shall devour my Prophets." "May be there is one righteous among us?" said Moses. "You have all erred." "May be there is one righteous among the Nonconformists," said Moses; "will the just God destroy him?" "The one righteous is humbled, and I have warned him to keep my commandments." "The sown seed brought forth a prayer," Moses pleaded; "will not the just God wait for the harvest?" "My Lord is just," Paul announced. "They who gather wickedness shall not escape the judgment, nor shall the blind instructor be held blameless." Moreover Paul said: "The Welsh Nonconformists have been informed of you as is proved by the man who confessed his transgressions. It is a good thing for me that I am not of the Prophets." "I'll be your comfort, Paul," the Prophets murmured, "that you have done this to our hurt." Abasing themselves, they tore their mantles and howled; and God, piteous of their howlings, was constrained to say: "Bring me the prayers of these people and I will forget your remissness." The Prophets ran hither and thither, wailing: "Woe. Woe. Woe." Sore that they behaved with such scant respect, Paul herded them into the Council Room. "Is it seemly," he rebuked them, "that the Prophets of God act like madmen?" "Our lot is awful," said they. "The lot of the backslider is justifiably awful," was Paul's rejoinder. "You have prophesied too diligently of your own glory." "You are learned in the Law, Paul," said Moses. "Make us waywise." "Send abroad a messenger to preach damnation to sinners," answere
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