All of a sudden, IT changed to one great, bright, burning
_eye_. Then _he_ was the eye--all eye--nothing but eye! What sights were
presented! The eye was gifted with a wonderful vision. It could discern
true from false--real from counterfeit--what was genuine from sham and
pretence.
More than this. The _eye_--which was Hiram--could discriminate between
what men considered valuable and available and important, and also good
and essential, and by all means to be secured: I say, the _eye_ had the
power to distinguish between these, and what was in truth and in very
deed good and just and right, and truly to be desired and sought after.
How things changed places!
Some shrank into littleness and utter insignificance, which formerly had
large proportions and a towering importance; others, which before seemed
puny and of little worth, grew grandly into magnitude, and power, and
might.
At a great distance could be observed the habitations of the children of
men. They appeared like objects seen through an inverted telescope--far
off and exceedingly diminished.
On the shore of the sea, Hiram Meeker was discovered.
He looked no larger than a man's thumb. He had fenced off a portion of
the sands, so that no one except himself (and many attempted) could have
access thereto. He was engaged transporting these sands in the most
careful manner, one by one, into a large warehouse, for better security,
as it would seem.
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