‘But...’ He paused and scanned the congregation as he had at the beginning. ‘Thus it will be with us also.’
‘No,’ came the voice again.
‘Yes.’ Cassraw’s contradiction swept the denial aside. ‘Unworthy as I am, I have been chosen to bring this vision to you. And if, having been given this vision, we stand aside, then yes, thus it will be with us also. If we do not first mend our own ways and then, strong in our own virtue, reach out to these benighted peoples to bring them to the truth then, yes, thus it will be with us also.’
Silence.
‘For in my vision I was shown also what can be brought to pass. I was shown how warring differences can be transformed into peace, into calm and tranquillity. As I turned from this awful sight, I saw in the distance, bright against a golden sky, a solitar
