The Seven Years of Seeking io!

‘abide on the earth till our Lord’s return,
and then shall he enter into the kingdom
with Him, without tasting death.

Speaking of the holy places, Calvary, it
might be, or the Garden of Olives and the
sepulchre of the Lord, and of the pilgrims
who visited these, he repeated to us the say-
ing of the saintly Father Hieronymus: “ To
live in Jerusalem is not a very holy thing,
but to live a holy life in Jerusalem.” And
walking with many of our brethren on the
shore of the sea and seeing the sails of the
ships as they went by, he questioned us of
the wonders of the great waters, and of sea-
faring, and of the last edge of the living
earth, and he said: “Tell me, you who
abide within sight of so many ships, and
who hear continually the song of the great
creature Sea, how would it fare with one who
should sail westward and keep that one
course constantly?”

We said that we knew not; it were like
he would perish of famine or thirst, or be
whelmed in the deep.

“ Ay,” he said, “but if he were well pro-
visioned, with no lack of food and water,
and the weather held fair?”