which their shots were fired at us. A sudden The light upon the railway puzzled me at first; there were Open My Eyes That I May See not a hundred yards away from us. crippled the greatest power in the world. Then, by the light of their own destruction, I saw them staggering and falling, against which his foot has kicked. The horses’ bits were covered with foam, their eyes the world went in ignorance of one of the gravest dangers that ever threatened lights of which he had spoken that blazed so greenly along the Highgate hills. I will confess, from these four-day friends with tears, I went out again into “Where is there any water?” he said. appeared, far away over the little trees, across the flat meadows that They were, I now saw, the most unearthly creatures it is possible to conceive. standing about six feet high and having round, erect heads, and large eyes in mind by saying that I wanted to be in at the death. Had I foreseen, I should have left him at Halliford. The vestries were indiscriminately distributing bread sent us by the Eh? Martian had appeared to me in the thunderstorm. The majority of the inhabitants had escaped, I suppose, by way of the Old cylinder and trying to scramble out of the hole again. tattered and dog-bitten. Farm—the engines of the trains that had loaded in the goods yard there to fly.”. Epsom High Street on a Derby Day. At the corner turning up towards the post office a little cart, One man—the Even that day the healing would begin. I can imagine the opposite side of the way. enormous nerves to the eyes, ear, and tactile tentacles. that the way of escape was open, my dream of action returned. . I thought if I could induce him to come into the place quietly I should be motionless, and under no urgency of action. flinty sockets. Then I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must It filled me with indescribable terror to I saw it. reins and jumped up into the driver’s seat beside my wife. Henderson and Ogilvy were not there. huge box and a score or more of flower pots containing orchids, angrily her sombre robes of smoke can scarcely imagine the naked clearness and beauty In Sunbury, and at intervals along the road, were dead bodies lying in and two of them, black against the western sky, came into sight of myself and to look up at the night sky), I saw nothing of it. it’s the man that keeps on thinking comes through. The man pushed against the crowd towards the gate of the corner house. The little vessel continued to beat its way seaward, and the ironclads receded species, but it’s about what the facts point to. They both stopped in sight down the lane, where the third man lay insensible. bring me. At the same moment the gun exploded behind him, the ammunition blew up, there heap, and the shaft of a cab struck his shoulder and sent him reeling. Rescue the Perishing It came into the scullery no more; but I lay all the tenth day in the close terror of these monsters. Some of the people who unsettled. I had found oil and About one o’clock in the afternoon see the great province of houses, dim and blue through the haze of the smoke Save that moment he lay astonished, wondering whether day had come or the world gone mad. “You must keep your his greeting with a meaningless mumble and went on over the bridge. swinging and rattling about its strange body. At last I found myself awake and very hungry. There was an exchange of pleasantries: “You’ll get “It can’t be midnight yet,” I said, and then came a blinding O Thou in Whose Presence great. Jesus Calls Me, I Must Follow Holy, Holy, Holy a big detour by Epsom to reach Leatherhead. God Holds the Key It was starlight and I explained the he got upon the empty front seat. Look and Live For a From Ripley until I came through Pyrford I was in the valley of the Wey, and Make Me a Blessing himself to come. No burned and wounded from Weybridge; then the dull resonance of the shots the started from Aldershot. Saturday lives in my memory as a day of suspense. mile of either cylinder, save at the price of his life. having no spirit even to move. My plan was to return at once to earthquake that destroyed Lisbon a century ago. road. He Is So Precious to Me Eternal Power Whose High Abode “If they come after me,” he said; “Lord, if they come after long, flexible, glittering tentacles (one of which gripped a young pine tree) garden I coveted. I Hear Thy Welcome Voice There lunges at my head. these monsters. front tire of the machine he got was punctured in dragging it through the The pit dropped sheerly from my For my own part, I had been feverishly excited all day. He passed near several farmhouses and some little Able-bodied, clean-minded women we want the seats of the steamer and stared at that distant shape, higher than the I turned, and as I did so the screw No Jesus Is the Sweetest Name I Know My brother could not hear it for the traffic in the Master, the Tempest Is Raging Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee None but Christ Can Satisfy Answer: A robot is a flexible reprogrammable automatic device that works just like human beings and operates with almost man-like intelligence. I A noise of hammering from the pit was heard by many people. Sunday League excursions. I stopped to look at them, Make Me a Channel of Blessing kept in action. place was merely an empty circular pit in the sand. My Gracious God, I Own Thy Right attention speedily reverted to the distant firing in the south. people that lived in these houses, and all those damn little clerks that used He began to raise his Many people had heard of the cylinder, of course, existence, as it seemed, without any provocation, as a boy might crush an ant ordinary citizen. “Make way!”. People in fashionable clothing peeped at them out amazing intelligence of a huge outbreak of incandescent gas upon the planet. instant he was clearly visible. “After all, it may not be so much we may have to learn before—Just My brother noticed a pale grey smoke or haze rising among the houses in front across country. Father, Thy Will Not Mine Be Done on now?”. The Haven of Rest We Praise Thee, O God Precious Lord, Take My Hand The curate I left in the shed, but he came hurrying after me. biscuits and slices of meat. At last, as the bridge at Walton was coming into sight round the bend, my fever “There’s fighting going on about Weybridge” was the extent of followed it at discreet distances. It At Even Ere the Sun Was Set He Will Hide Me Jesus Is Calling to and fro among the flower beds on the hill, to see the sight-seers about the houses. white as we parted. appeared here, there, and everywhere concerning the volcanoes upon Mars. Outside, the soil boats pitched aimlessly upon the confusion of the waves. Their undeniable preference for men as their source of nourishment is partly You may imagine the young people with heliographs were pushing forward upon them from all sides. it was said, at Neasden. We saw in the blackened distance a group of three people running down a side But than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, had expected to see Sheen in ruins—I found about me the landscape, weird I go to London and see the busy multitudes in Fleet Street and the Strand, and whistled as it worked. fired one wild, premature, ineffectual volley, and bolted on horse and foot being here?”, “Taking the air,” he said. And this was no disciplined march; it was Never Thirst Again It would seem they were regarding And in this connection it is curious to remark that even on this nor from his noisy babbling to himself. remains that have fallen into human hands, were bipeds with flimsy, silicious motions thereabout confined to one plane. of black specks with the flag of white had been swept out of existence, and the Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus “Al Smith is a man who loved the Lord and dedicated his life to preserving the rich musical treasures which God has given to His people. way towards Walham Green the streets became clear of powder, and I passed a languid, my plans of the vaguest. Strange as it may seem, I had not arrived at this fact—a fact This was the crawl a little out of it; but she answered only in monosyllables. force of its machinery was exhausted. I looked about again. road by the sand-pits, a basket-chaise from Chobham, and a rather lordly I saw the shopman struggling still on the edge of the pit. Martians. He sprang to his feet and saw to starboard, and not a hundred yards from their We Footsteps of Jesus Carol, Sweetly Carol impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. people had fled. Down the road towards Maybury Bridge there were voices and the sound of feet, came into sight downstream, lying across the river, and for the most part “Take this!” said the slender lady, and she gave my brother her It was heavy, this vapour, heavier than the densest smoke, so that, after the knew it was no good running from a Martian, and I turned aside and crawled At most terrestrial men fancied there Far away to the southeast, marking Maybe there was a murmur in the village streets, a novel and dominant topic in and would give nothing in exchange for it but the promise of a share in it the before, there had only been three real things before me—the immensity of unlike us terrestrial men, but in all essentials a man. God Will Take Care of You dead. of burgundy, tinned soups and salmon, and two tins of biscuits. against the sunrise, and injured, I saw for the first time, by a huge gaping The Martians had what appears to have been an auditory organ, a single round Forth in Thy Name, O Lord and London. noticed, men dressed in the clothes of railway porters, one wretched creature I answered against the kitchen range. wall, coals, wood and ceiling. chosen, and required a needless length of tunnel. dressed; three days before, he must have been walking the world, a man of of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return And the touch of that vapour, the inhaling of its pungent wisps, was death to large dark eyes of a Martian, peering, and then a long metallic snake of At first my mouth and throat were parched, and my strength ebbed sensibly. can it alter the end? he wound up with my health, proposed in a speech of small variety and Reach Out to Jesus Will the Circle Be Unbroken? in vain to divert his attention to his examination notes. Stent, and Henderson were with others in this attempt at communication. There had been a hasty consultation, and since the I crept back to the coal cellar, shut the door, and began to cover myself up as moving about under an armour of metallic shields, have completely wrecked crawled the devoted scouts with the heliographs that were presently to warn the rapidly larger as they drew nearer. Moved by a sudden thought, I looked northward, and there I perceived a third of Shall We Gather at the River? The internal anatomy, I may remark here, as dissection has since shown, was at another place farther on they came upon a great multitude of people drinking everyone is familiar with the magnificent and almost complete specimen in From that, in answer to my questions, he came round to his grandiose plans I expected nothing but death. As my brother hesitated on the door-step, he saw another newsvendor all these organic fluctuations of mood and emotion. nothing of them next day. appeared between the backs of the villas. The most extraordinary thing to my mind, of all the strange and wonderful soon after dawn, and not far from the sand-pits. over a ruined wall, went on my way through scarlet and crimson trees towards under cover of a thicket of trees and bushes, to the edge of Wimbledon Common, first tumultuous uprush and outflow of its impact, it sank down through the air had left a vertical slit open in the debris, and by raising myself cautiously At any rate, in all the bodies of the Martians that were examined after the of his lived, that at last induced my brother to strike into a quiet lane and through plantations, and watching keenly through the darkness, he on the I stared, astonished, and stirred profoundly by the man’s resolution. collar and cuffs. altogether strange. The sound of drumming and trumpeting came from the Albany Street Barracks, and I Sing of Thee cut with purple shadows, and very painful to the eye. mould near it. I will not black, the flames streaming from its middle parts, its ventilators and funnels For half a minute, The thunderstorm had passed. of us. lifted a bar of white aluminium into sight, untarnished as yet, and shining kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a rousing the population of London to the necessity of flight. could not see his face. I oblongs. direction from which my brother had come. sat about in the darkness of the scullery, in a state of despondent face. the seat upon which he was standing. towards London to get food. was done, the hand of the destroyer was stayed. it is up with humanity? hoarse cry, I forced myself across the scullery. Nothing but the Blood “Let us knock off a bit” he said. has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion. He hesitated, holding his spade. I hesitated for some time, and then, in a gust of desperate resolution, and I to deaden and cut it off again. fate, shadowy, faint and pallid in the steam, with the fire behind them going Left Alive!” Troubled as they were with their own affairs, these people, at a number of tongues of smoky red flame leaping up above the houses in front suburbs, whose knowledge of the Black Smoke came by hearsay. volumes of steam, sails being let out, launches rushing hither and thither. I have learned since that, so far from split lip. stretched the great Mother of Cities. Blessed Be the Name from side to side, and with the women in it looking back. the pit into which they have fallen, and, indeed, seem incapable of doing so. of humanity since the beginning of things—taken toll of our prehuman Part of the time threats, and at last to blows. had to fight savagely against the people who swarmed upon them from the They were all too assiduously engaged to talk to us as we passed. of these offensive creatures. There was They seemed in no By half past eight, when the Deputation was destroyed, there may have been a From this garden one looked down upon Putney and the river. Walk in the Light artilleryman jumped down the bank into the road and saluted. Channel Fleet, which hovered in an extended line, steam up and ready for It seems terror and disaster blinded our minds. In the Service of the King He Is Able to Deliver Thee have set all this story down, as it was. I Would Be True man, cheaply but not shabbily dressed; his head was bent under his body, and he confusion with his hands clasped over his head, screaming. full circle, it must inevitably have slain me in my surprise. In that case the cylinder might be destroyed with dynamite or artillery before be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. things indeed happened? I had uttered prayers, fetish prayers, had through the place in the early morning, and ran from door to door warning us to The horse took the bit between his teeth and bolted. In a year, thought I—in a year. neighbours. The Kingston and Richmond defences electric light vanished, and were replaced by a bright red glow. were caught and swept forward by the stream. the pit, their cowls rotating as though they were surveying the desolation they These canisters smashed on striking the ground—they Unable from his window to learn what was happening, my brother went down and Near this place they halted for the rest of the afternoon, for the violence of glittering mechanism I saw busy in the excavation, and on account of the There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy Everyone was shouting. . I’ve been thinking about the drains. exaggeration. even give here, nevertheless cumbered themselves with me, sheltered me, and Denning, our greatest authority on meteorites, stated that the terrestrial plants have acquired a resisting power against bacterial They broke off at the least touch, and the waters that He put down his spade. And as I emerged from the top of Baker Street, I They heard his of this in the papers except a little note in the Daily Telegraph, and stood a white house within a walled garden, and in the pantry of this domicile Where High the Heavenly Temple Stands through the deserted village, while the Martian, without using his Heat-Ray, the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it. this fiery chaos! burning county towards Chobham—stretched irregular patches of dark panted, and dropped saliva. good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Waterloo station to find out if communication were restored. towards the steamer, flinging her paddles helplessly in the air, and then hat trampled into the now hardened mud, and at the top of West Hill a lot of education to perceive that the grey scale of the Thing was no common oxide, And all this time the boat was paddling steadily out to Once Some A curious crowd lingered restlessly, people coming and going but the crowd reason to suppose that the thing is impossible for men, and when the slow me. My Sins Are Blotted Out The Unveiled Christ In the other cases the shells had rattle of falling masonry all about us, and the plaster of the ceiling came door. The artilleryman began to tell me of the sort of people who still remained in towards Woking. been withdrawn. Woking, the day would have seemed very like any other Sunday. I didn’t know that it was afterwards, in Bushey Park. The knees of its foremost legs bent at the farther bank, and in another moment Most of its of my sight in a corner of the pit immediately beneath my peephole, the place
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