Suppose a man earnestly believed, as one of the Apostles, for instance, very well might have believed, that by continuing to live through all the centuries, he could give a witness to the facts of revelation such as would otherwise have been impossible, would he have been justified in praying for such an æonic life ?

The latter was a stranger to him but in the darkness, by the aid of the glowing cigarette tips, he could make out a pale dandyish face over which a smile was travelling slowly, a tall overcoated figure and a hard hat.

As soon as we get the plane tickets, we'll finalize our reservations with the hotel.

Seeing our historic deficits as powerful enough leaks to collapse our nation's credit, in 2010, the Tea Party rose up to stick their finger in the dike, pledging to stop America's excessive public debt from growing further until we could agree on a path for recovery.