Most renowned prophets were born of the name Moses, Elijah, and Jeremiah--and Dr. Charles was of that order. Some twenty years earlier, he had heard a voice which had asked him to steer clear of women, alcohol, and tobacco, because there was a special job needed of him.
"Who are you, lord?" he asked the speaker, the owner of the well-distilled voice in that memorable dream of his that had become etched into his memory, almost like indelible ink. He was only nine then.
Today, now aged twenty-nine, as he closed his room in the house officer's residence, he wondered whether the...