the request shattered the prophet’s hopes. It showed him that his ideal was too lofty and spiritual for the people to appreciate and maintain. They could not believe only in the invisible; they must have the outward symbols and splendour of royalty. This is the universal failure of the heart of man. It is always craving for the sensuous and visible. Like the children of Israel, with their cry, “Make us gods, which may go before us,” men demand something which they may see and handle, and before which