"A time to be ushered in by proclamation, I suppose?"

"How, and when, and where it is to begin, I am not advised," said'
Mr. Markham, smiling. "All Christians expect it; and many have set
the beginning thereof near about this time."

"What if it have begun already?"

"Already! Where is the sign, pray? It has certainly escaped my
observation. If the Lord had actually come to reign a thousand
years, surely the world would know it. In what favoured region has
he made his second advent?"

"Is it not possible that the Christian world may be in error as to
the manner of this second coming, that is to usher in the
millennium?"

"Yes, very. I don't see, that in all prophecy, there is any thing
definite on the subject."

"Nothing more definite than there was in regard to the first
coming?"

"No."

"And yet, while in their very midst, even though miracles were
wrought for them; the Jews did not know the promised Messiah."

"True."