by Daniel the prophet, stand
in the holy place_ (of the Temple)--_whoso readeth, let him
understand:--then let them which be in Judaea flee into the
mountains . . . and pray ye that your flight be not on the sabbath day.
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the
beginning of the world to this time, nor ever shall be_.'

"Jehovah help us, brethren! This morning has convinced me that these
times are upon us. What _this_ day will bring none but Jehovah can
tell! My last word to you, my advice to you all, is, flee this city,
flee the neighbourhood. For weeks I have had it borne in upon my soul,
that the man we have covenanted with, was working some deep, subtle,
hellish scheme. Now he hath shown his hand, there are but three
courses open to us, _idolatry_--worshipping that idol set up in our
holy place, yonder; _flight_; or _death_."

Even as Cohen harangued his crowd of priests and Jews, Apleon rode up
the white marble road to the Temple. The Hebrew crowd was quite hidden
from any observation from that main road. It was well for them,
doubtless, that it was so.

A moment or two after Apleon and the mighty throng which followed him
had passed, the crowd of Jews left the _cul-de-sac_, and silently,
anxiously dispersed in various directions.

Cohen found himself walking with the man who had been Hight-priest last
year. Together they conversed in low, serious, guarded tones, until
they suddenly discovered themselves close up to a mighty throng
gathered about the now well-known witnesses, Enoch and Elijah.

The two priests paused to listen to the witnesses' denunciations of
Apleon, whom they designated "The Beast."--"The Anti-christ." Both men
had listened often before to these prophets of God, and both had often
been well-nigh convinced of the truth of the testimony of the two
witnesses.

"It is said," whispered Cohen, to his fellow-priest, "that these two
men are the two prophets of the Most High God, Enoch and Elijah--those
two of God's servants who never passed through death."

"The three and a half years of their witnessing," replied the second
priest, "have been crowded with incident, miracle, and much that has
been supernatural. They say that no man has seen them eat. That, like
Elijah, when upon earth, they too have been super-naturally fed. Then,
too, nothing has been able to harm them. Apleon (the priest's voice
was lowered to the merest whisper) has directed his agents to war