Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, when the loud voices of
the heralds proclaiming the peculiar enactment fell on his ears, he laid
by his parchment, closed his eyes for a moment in silent devotion, then
rose and calmly entered that little chamber, where he had so often, for
so many years, bowed before the God of his fathers. There he had sat for
many hours in silent meditation on the length of Judah's captivity, and
cried, "How long, O Lord, how long!" A dear spot to the man of God that
little chamber had been for many a long year.
"From the days of my childhood I have prayed to the God of my fathers,"
soliloquized Daniel. "I well remember when, by the side of my mother,
while I was yet but a little child, I bowed the knee in humble adoration
of my God. From that day to this, throughout my long, weary pilgrimage, I
have always prayed and offered my petitions to the Most High. And am I
now to be frightened in my old age from the worship of my God through the
fear of the lions? Is this the strength of Daniel's faith? I laugh to
scorn their blasphemous law!"
Soon after Daniel had left for his devotional exercises, the members of
the "Union Safety Committee" (Fraggood, Bimbokrak and Scramgee) were seen
on their way from the house of Kinggron, moving in the direction of the
house of the first president.
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