And after an indignant recital of their loss of humility, of their lukewarmness, of their desire for excitement and the pageants of the world, of their lust for buildings of stone and pillared walks and plentiful living, he concluded: "Make, then, we beseech thee, no sign from thy sepulchre.  Let life and death, and joy and sorrow, and blindness and disease, and all the vicissitudes of this world follow their natural courses.  Do not thou, out of compassion for thy fellow-man, interpose in the lawful succession of things.  This is what we ask of thee, expecting it of thy love.  But if it be that thou deny us, solemnly we declare unto thee, by the obedience which once we owed thee, we shall unearth thy bones and cast them forth from amongst us."