There, having received our washings and anointings in the temple of God on earth, we shall wait unmolested, and spread the curtains of Zion in due circumspection.

And what a migration to be recorded in another sacred history ages hence! Surely the blood of our martyred Prophet hath not smoked to heaven in vain.

Where is there a parallel to this hegira?
They from Egypt went from a heathen land, a land of idolatry, to a fertile home chosen for them by the Lord.

But we go from a fair, smiling land of plenty and pretended Christianity into the burning desert.

They have driven us to the edge; now they drive us in.