Tomorrow bands of axemen are to leave London to settle Kent and Surrey. Paul and Elizabeth are to go, and later Esther and I intend to follow them. David will join us when he can be spared from his work in the government.
It is Easter Day, and in the consecrated Temple I hear the anthem rise:
“Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us; therefore let us keep the feast:
“Not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
“Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more: death hath no more dominion over him.”
The crowds in the great courts are kneeling. I kneel with Esther among them. We know that the sacrifice has leavened the world with truth that shall never pass away.
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1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Messiah of the Cylinder, by Victor Rousseau