“There is much for us to do while we wait and watch for His coming,” Fray Fernando answered with cheerful earnestness. “We have to hasten that coming by our holy conversation and godliness, our prayers and our efforts to spread abroad the knowledge of His name. And amidst all the sin and all the sorrow that we see around us, we have to keep fast hold of our faith in Him, and to rejoice in sure and steadfast hope of that blessed day when the kingdoms of this world shall have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever. And ‘the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.’” “Amen!” said Walter Grey. “THY KINGDOM COME.” [Illustration] FOOTNOTES [1] Sweet bread. [2] No sound corresponding to the letter D is found in Quichua. Its place is supplied by T. [3] Empress. [4] Alas! [5] Tribe, descendants. [6] Yahuar-Huaccuc. [7] Prince. [8] The same word serves for both in Quichua. [9] This is given as a specimen of the Inca legends and traditions. [10] Tunic. [11] The anecdote told above is related, by different historians, of several of the Incas. Other remarkable acknowledgments of the One True Invisible God are attributed to these heathen princes. [12] Flowery meadow. [13] Luna. [14] The Deluge, of which most of the American nations preserved traditions. [15] From a Quichua cradle-song. [16] Trenches. [17] The Moon. [18] It is a Spaniard who tells us this—Don Marcio Serra de Leguisano, in his “Last Will and Testament”—a very noble testimony to the conquered race. [19] Factories. [20] Slaves. [21] All the details given above are, of course, strictly true. The most harrowing instances of cruelty and oppression are, however, purposely omitted. [22] Sweet-william. [23] Poet. [24] Songs. [25] Allotment of land. [26] “What is most wonderful is that all the labour and toil they used for their kings was their greatest delight and recreation; and such was the good rule and order observed in it that no labour was tedious, but rather of contentment and satisfaction.”—JOSEPH DE ACOSTA. (Other Spanish testimonies might be quoted, to the same effect.) [27] Atahualpa, nevertheless, had some redeeming features of character: and it is almost certain that his cruelties were greatly exaggerated. [28] This riot actually took place, and from the cause assigned in the text. [29] This hereditary guild of doctors still exists among the Peruvian Indians, and they still pursue their calling as described in the text. [30] The ease with which the Spaniards made their vast conquests in the New World was owing, in great measure, to the awe and terror inspired by their horses, animals entirely unknown to the aborigines; it has been even said that it was the horse, not the man, that conquered America.