Most majestic was the approach of the beatific hosts from the holy realms of the Third Estate. They came from the Empyrean in transcendent glory, and presented a spectacle magnificent beyond the power of speech to describe.

The mighty convoy was led by trumpeters who were Sons of Light, and by such as bore golden rams' horns of ringing tones and mellow.

Next in regular order came symphonic bands, rank upon rank, holding in their hands viols and psalterions, and flutes and cymbals, all of entrancing sound.

Thereafter followed innumerable throngs of singers with voices more melodious than the music of sphered maestros of the Infinite Deeps.

The singers and instrumentalists wore robes lustrous as nacre and of tissue finer than byssus and soft as spinnings of the Indian moth.

Then appeared unimaginable numbers of Saints carrying fulgent banners or ensigns, flexible and vapory, which caused the magnificent retinue to shine in similarhood to an ocean luminous and undulating, as it broadened and extended far away down the jubilant skies.

And high over all moved THE SHEKINAH! THE ELOAH! THE FATHER! borne on the pinions of the Cherubim, while the Seraphim, constituting a vast choir, winged their way in perfect order,

above, below, on every side, their voices mingling in exultant praise of HIM who Liveth and Reigneth Forever and Forever!

With winding of golden trump and horn and swelling of the rich harmonies of combined instrument and voice that echoed from sphere to sphere, the ethereal multitudes reached Calvary's Mount where stood the Immaculate Redeemer but eight days from the Cross.

He had fulfilled His divine mission.

He had triumphed over its attendant agonies. His vicarious work for this world and every world was ended.

And now the time had arrived for His reunition with the Father, Who had come to welcome Him back to His place on the Throne of the Universe with every circumstance of joy and ineffable glory.

The mighty I AM occupied a throne flowered with the radiance of blazing spheres.

He was crowned with orbed suns, in whose intenser glow the beams of earth's great flambeau of day fell as a shadow.

Howbeit, the light of that crown was dimmed by the brightness of the Face of the Infinite; for lo, such was the awful majesty of the Godhead that no eye not of the Third Estate could brook the intense splendor thereof.

And the wonderful effulgence streaming down caused the ensigns to shower forth bedazzling light, which mantled the countless hosts with a radiation beautiful to behold.

From Calvary where stood The Christ, up to Heaven's cope was one prodigious amphitheatre of Disembodied Souls. And within this living arena the saintly hosts of the Third Estate assembled, their beamy circles reaching up to the foot of the Throne of God.

The Son, as He stood glorified below, gazed upward toward THE SHEKINAH.

His aspect was holy and serene.

Around and attending upon Him were Seraphs and Archangels, appareled in garments scintillant as silvery mist, and wearing zones flashing with iridescent fires.

Suddenly, led by the full voiced Seraphim, the trumpets and all the instruments, joined with the vocal strains of the innumerable choirs, burst forth in great transports of praise in honor of the Lamb of God, who was offered as ransom for sinful humanity of earth or wheresoever within the vast Empire of Omnipotence.

And amid the mighty acclaim and in awe-inspiring majesty, The Christ and His holy retinue began to mount up, while were waved the shining banners on every side.