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THE RESURRECTION

tience, Brotherly Kindness and Charity. Peace waves her gentle banners over his head. Faith walks by his side with a glittering shield. Truth has hanging from her golden girdle a quiver full of arrows. He marches directly for the chamber where they are all feasting, and enters, plucks the crown from Satan's brow, and wrests the sceptre from his hands. He taketh from him all the ar- mor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. All the inhabitants wonder at the glory of their new King; he holds a sceptre of universal dominion; he wears a crown of