For those who live in eternity, all horrors have ceased; time rushes past in centuries, which seem to them but a day." "Teach me so to live, master; I thirst for knowledge," cried his companion, fervently.
"I know it, my son; I penetrate thy soul, and I know that thou thirstest.

Therefore I am here to quench thy thirst, and feed thy hungry heart." He remained standing upon the grass-plot, which he had reached by lonely paths, and which was encircled by trees and bushes.

Not a sound interrupted the peaceful morning stillness of the place, except the distant music of the departing regiments dying away on the air.

"I will teach thee to live in eternity!" resumed the Italian, solemnly.
"My predecessor the apostle, George Schrepfer, has initiated thee in temporal life, and the knowledge of the present.

By the pistol-shot, which disclosed to him the invisible world, and removed him from our earthly eyes, has he to thee, his most faithful and believing disciple, given the great doctrine of the decay of all things earthly, and prepared thee for the doctrine of the imperishableness of the celestial.
The original of humanity sends me, to make known to thee this holy doctrine.