n the Psalms.' So Peterson read the ones he
called for, and after a little the minister said:

"'That will do, Peter. I turn now from the sorrow and pain and
darkness of earth to the celestial city, to infinite serenities,
to love without limit, to perfect joy. And when I am dead, see
you to my burying, Peter. Lay me in the grave with my face to the
east, and put above me Jesus Christ's own watchword, "_Thy kingdom
come._"' After that he asked only for water, and so he died."

"Blessed are such dead. There is no need to weep for them."

"That is one thing sure; but I have seen this, Nanna: that the wicked
is unbefriended in his death-pang."

"And after it, David? O David, after it?"

"There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the worker of
iniquity may hide," he answered with an awful solemnity.

"O David, we come into the world weeping, and we go out fearing. It
is a hard travail, both for body and soul."

And David walked to the little table on which the Book lay, and
he turned the leaves until he found the words he wanted. And Nanna
watched him with eyes purified by that mysterious withdrawal into
the life of the soul which comes through a great sorrow.

"It was not always so, Nanna," he said. "Listen!

"For their sakes I made the world, and when Adam transgressed
my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.

"Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of
sorrow and travail; they are but few and evil, full of perils
and very painful.

"For the entrances of the elder world were wide and sure, and
brought immortal fruit.

But yet there is to be a restoration, Nanna."

"I know not," she answered wearily. "It is so far off--so far away."

"But it is promised. It is sure.

"The world shall be turned into the old silence seven days,
like as in former judgments, so that no man shall remain.

"And after seven days, the world, that yet awaketh not, shall
be raised up; and that shall die that is corrupt.

"And the earth shall restore those that are asleep in her; and
the dust, those that dwell in silence; and the secret places
shall deliver those souls that were committed unto them.

"And the Most High shall appear upon the seat of judgment, and
misery shall pass away, and the long suffering shall have an
end.

"But judgment shall remain; truth shall stand; and faith shall
wax strong."

"I know nothing of