"This he has done this morning. The priests were stopped in their preparations for the morning sacrifice. "'_And,_' said our father, Daniel, '_for the over-spreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation_.' Daniel ix. 27. "Brethren, of the House of Israel, the Lord our God is one God. I am no Mehushmad, but in common with many of our rabbis, I have read the Gentile New Testament, and there, in the words of the Nazarene Prophet, (Matt. xxiv. 15, 16.) He prophesied exactly what has come to pass this morning in our beautiful Temple, for he said: "'_When ye_ (that is we of the House of Israel) _therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of 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."