Sub sole : or, Under the sun missionary adventures in the great Sahara . e questions required, to the whole number ofcandidates together, and they answ^ered what I desiredwith one voice. We had the simplest possible form ofservice in administering the Holy Sacrament: there wereten of us to officiate ; and yet such was the number of thefaithful that six hours had passed before the ceremonywas over. Yet we were neither faint nor weary. Wehad meat to eat, of which the world knoweth not ; thejoy of the Holy Ghost took away every feeling of hungerand fatigue. At the close of this blessed service, (
Sub sole : or, Under the sun missionary adventures in the great Sahara . e questions required, to the whole number ofcandidates together, and they answ^ered what I desiredwith one voice. We had the simplest possible form ofservice in administering the Holy Sacrament: there wereten of us to officiate ; and yet such was the number of thefaithful that six hours had passed before the ceremonywas over. Yet we were neither faint nor weary. Wehad meat to eat, of which the world knoweth not ; thejoy of the Holy Ghost took away every feeling of hungerand fatigue. At the close of this blessed service, (a seasononly second to that of Pentecost) we all united in singingthe Doxology. Then by the light of the cavern moonwe wended our way homewards. As it was said of Samaria,as the result of St. Philips preaching, so might it be saidof the subterranean city that night : There was joy in A PENTECOSTAL WIND. 165 that city—the joy of sins forgiven : the joy of KingJesus revealed in His beauty ; the joy of the Holy Ghost,the earnest and the foretaste of bliss celestial. i^. CHAPTER XII. iE^aste to t^t secatring. The bride hath paced into the hall,Red as a rose is she ;Nodding their heads before her goThe merry minstrelsy.—Coleridge.
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