Chapter 13—Gods’s Love for His People
I have seen the tender love that God has for His people, and it is
very great. I saw angels over the saints with their wings spread about
them. Each saint had an attending angel. If the saints wept through
discouragement, or were in danger, the angels that ever attended them
would fly quickly upward to carry the tidings, and the angels in the city
would cease to sing. Then Jesus would commission another angel to
descend to encourage, watch over, and try to keep them from going out
of the narrow path; but if they did not take heed to the watchful care
of these angels, and would not be comforted by them, but continued
to go astray, the angels would look sad and weep. They would bear
the tidings upward, and all the angels in the city would weep, and then
with a loud voice say, “Amen.” But if the saints fixed their eyes upon
the prize before them, and glorified God by praising Him, then the
angels would bear the glad tidings to the city, and the angels in the city
would touch their golden harps and sing with a loud voice, “Alleluia!”
and the heavenly arches would ring with their lovely songs.
There is perfect order and harmony in the holy city. All the angels
that are commissioned to visit the earth hold a golden card, which they
present to the angels at the gates of the city as they pass in and out.
Heaven is a good place. I long to be there, and behold my lovely Jesus,
who gave His life for me, and be changed into His glorious image. Oh,
for language to express the glory of the bright world to come! I thirst
for the living streams that make glad the city of our God.
The Lord has given me a view of other worlds. Wings were given
me, and an angel attended me from the city to a place that was bright
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and glorious. The grass of the place was living green, and the birds
there warbled a sweet song. The inhabitants of the place were of all
sizes; they were noble, majestic, and lovely. They bore the express im-
age of Jesus, and their countenances beamed with holy joy, expressive
of the freedom and happiness of the place. I asked one of them why
they were so much more lovely than those on the earth. The reply was,
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