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I had my answer. Nature is not indifferent; it merely waits, having all Eternity to accomplish its Purpose. For untold centuries this desert lay here as if by some accident of Creation. Some years ago a little flower from its own civilization came by and lay her body down in seeming bleakness and loneliness. But in a few rr | 1 Yow 4 years a transformation occurred. As her eyes closed did she perhaps see that day not too far off, when other graves would surround her own? Could she see the desert around her adorned with better and better homes? Could she imagine such chariots as the automobiles, or her own humanity in flying machines 1 a 1 a No, no place is so remote that God has not laid out a plan for it. I felt satisfied; my church this morning was the well in the Oasis of Maru. Was I not directed by some unseen Power? Why was it that I could not enter any of the three churches? To come to the Oasis was the last thing in my mind at the start. Ah, yes. Perhaps these things would come out tonight, when Adam concluded his story. That night, knowing he was close to Lyra’s cottage and Orion’s abode and anticipating the audience with Saturn and the others in Lyra’s home, Adam thought he would be long in getting to sleep because of his restlessness. He had not seen any sign of the sun in such a long time, yet was closer to it by millions of miles than he ever had been on earth, and the idea suddenly cast a sleepy mood over him. He went to bed and indeed he did sleep, waking up the next morning fresh and sprightly, ready for anything. He heard Launie moving around in the cottage, but after dressing he found no breakfast ready. “This morning,” she said, “we shall have breakfast with the peers in Lyra’s home. Oh, Adam, it is hard for me to realize the pleasures of these times that you have helped me obtain. You may feel the equal of each and all of us today, for the things to be talked of are not better known by one 150 SON OF THE SUN zooming over her resting place?