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nearly three hours. With the request from Judith, and a promise from him to resume the subject at the first fav orable opportunity, they parted. Intensely, almost feverishly excited, Judith went to her room. Beautiful in face and form as she was, she was fouler than a Lucretla Borgia, ln soul, ln thought. And now, as a foul, wild, mad thought surged through her brain, she murmured, half-aloud: “ Demon or man, what matters! If I thought I could be the Mother of The Antichrist, I would— so much do I hate the Nazarene, the Christ— .” She spat through the open window as she uttered the precious, though to her the hated name of the Son of God. CHAPTER I. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER HE huge London Church was crowded in every part, and men had been standing in the aisles from the first moment that the service began. The preacher who had attracted so huge a crowd at two-thirty on a week-day afternoon, was one of the very youngest of the "coming men” of the English church. Tall, thin, with a magnificent head, crowned by a mane of hair that was fast becoming prematurely grey, and a face so Intense ln its cast, and set with eyes so piercing, that strangers, not knowing who he was, would almost inevitably turn to look at him when they passed him on the street. His career had been a strange one. Ordained at quite an efffly age, he had been offered a living within six months of his ordination. He entered upon his charge, preached but once only, then met with an accident that laid him low for seven years. The seven years were fruitful years, since, shut up with God and His Word, he had become almost the most remarkable spiritually-minded Bible Btudent of his time. The day came, at length, when once more he was strong enough to do public service, and though without a living, from the moment that he had preached his first sermon, after his recovery, he found himself in constant request on every hand. He lived in close communion with God, and his soul burned within him as hq delivered— not an address, not a sermon, but the message of God. The music of the voluntary was filling all the church, while the offering was being taken. Then, as the last well- filled plate was piled on the step of the communion rail, the voluntary died away ln a soft whisper. Amid a tense hush, he rose to give out the hymn before the sermon. Clear, bell-llke, his voice rang out: “ When I survey the wondrous cross.” The hymn sung, he gave out his text: “ Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you is a demon.” “ You will note,” he began, "that I have changed the word devil to demon. There is but one devil ln the universe, but there are myriads of demons, fallen angels like their master, the Devil, only they were angels of lesser rank.” He paused for one moment, and his eagle eyes swept the sea of faces. Then ln quiet, calm, but Incisive tones he asked: “ Who, what, was Judas Iscariot? Was he human, was he man, as I am, as you are? or, was he a demon? Jesus Christ our Lord, who knew as God, as well as man, declared that Judas was a demon— a fallen angel.” The silence was awesome In Its tenseness. Every eye was fixed on the preacher, necks were strained forward, lips were parted— the people held their breath. Again that clear, rich, bell-like voice rang out in the repeated question; “ Who, I repeat, was Judas Iscariot? Was he a man, in the usual acceptance of the term, or was
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