Young as he was, he had been twice imprisoned for several months, and suffered many severities, which gave him great influence with those of his own sect.

He threw his faded eyes over the multitude and over the scene of battle; and a light of triumph arose in his glance, his pale yet striking features were coloured with a transient and hectic blush of joy.

He folded his hands, raised his face to heaven, and seemed lost in mental prayer and thanksgiving ere he addressed the people.

When he spoke, his faint and broken voice seemed at first inadequate to express his conceptions.

But the deep silence of the assembly, the eagerness with which the ear gathered every word, as the famished Israelites collected the heavenly manna, had a corresponding effect upon the preacher himself.