The darkened ancient earth was sleeping. It was mankind's night-time, also in shadowy keeping with the telluric influence wherein he groped, not consciously, but with sure instinct, to the performing of needed tasks, as the wild fowl and the fish move from zone to zone to find their life food and conceive their kind.
And in that slow wending time the sons of earth did dream and prophecy, divine and reveal of a coming morning-time. Then were the seed and type of future happenings sown by willing, but not learned, husbandmen, to bud with the awakening world at Christ's first coming, to blossom into certain beauty at this his second making known.
And to Judaism only was it given of all the blind worshippers and prophets of Jehovah to foretell truly what that coming morning should be like. "Then the eyes of all shall see, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken" to the " Day Spring from on high."
