D. Then thou hast more confidence in thyself than in thy brethren. Are they not like thee? C. They are like me, in faith; but I would not trust their judgment, when thy words of honey are offered to them. D. And yet thou canst trust thy own. C. Whose should I trust? D. Whom should thy friends trust? Thou requirest them to trust in thee. Why shouldst thou require them to trust in thee when thou refusest to trust in thy friends? We have not wronged thee, nor will thy friends be wronged by us. C. Thou mayest wait. I will counsel with the senior of this castle. When we saw what he wanted, we summoned the circle in the temple by a certain sound of the trumpet. They came. On sounding the trumpet, the hosts of the castle came also. It was a clear, still evening, and when they saw our implements of war, they formed in a circle near the walls, and demanded the object of our mission. The Commander of the temple replied, “Be not alarmed. What thou hast is thine, and we have no need of what is thy own. We are here not to take away what thou hast, but to give thee more abundantly than thou hast reason to expect. Thou wilt soon see the object of our mission; and, when thou seest, thou wilt not consider us thy enemies, but friends. We see thy arms are defective; and, if thou wouldst fight, the weapons we bring are at thy disposal. Advance and receive, and, when thou receivest, use them as thy wisdom shall direct thee.” SEN. Then thou surrenderest thy command to our power? COM. We surrender what thou desirest--our weapons of hostility. Come now and receive, that thou mayest know we are not thy enemies. S. Thou wilt keep thy own. We do not fight with friends. C. Why shouldst thou fight with enemies? S. Because they are not friends. C. Will thy fighting make them friends? S. It will make them know that they are not our masters. C. How will it teach them this? S. Because they will become our servants. Our victory over them will teach them this lesson. C. It will teach them another lesson also. S. What lesson? C. It will teach them, that thy victory may be reversed, and that thou mayest become their servants. What _thou_ doest, others may do. Thou wilt see, that thy power may become the power of those whom thou mayest oppress. When wilt thou understand, that thy warfare is wrong to thee, and to those whom thou mayest injure? S. When our enemies become our friends. C. Very true. And wouldst thou desire all minds to become thy friends? S. We would desire peace, but not on dishonorable terms. C. Thou wilt not say, peace is dishonorable, on any terms. S. I will say, when minds are asked to surrender their rights as a condition to peace, it is dishonorable. C. Dishonorable to whom? S. It is dishonorable to him who surrenders. C. Is it dishonorable to give? S. When the gift is demanded, as a condition of peace.