[Illustration: THE GREAT SURPRISE
Moses II. leads his chosen people through the Red Sea to the promised
(Eng)land.]
Thou art the Man!
The Man of Sorrows is flogged, and thorn-crowned, and crucified, and
pierced afresh, by this other man of sorrows, who has brought greater
bitterness and woe on earth than any other of all time. And in his
soul--for soul he must have, though small sign of it is evidenced--he
knows it. Deceive his dupes as he may--for a time--his own soul must
be a very hell of broken hopes, disappointed ambitions, shattered
pride, and the hideous knowledge of the holocaust of human life he has
deliberately sacrificed to these heathen gods of his. No poorest man on
earth would change places with this man-that-might-have-been, for his
time draws nigh and his end is perdition.