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perfect square. Some had very bright crowns, others not so bright.
Some crowns appeared heavy with stars, while others had but few. All
were perfectly satisfied with their crowns. And they were all clothed
with a glorious white mantle from their shoulders to their feet. Angels
were all about us as we marched over the sea of glass to the gate of
the city. Jesus raised His mighty, glorious arm, laid hold of the pearly
gate, swung it back on its glittering hinges, and said to us: “You have
washed your robes in My blood, stood stiffly for My truth, enter in.”
We all marched in and felt we had a perfect right there.
Within the city we saw the tree of life and the throne of God. Out
of the throne came a pure river of water, and on either side of the river
was the tree of life. On one side of the river was a trunk of a tree, and
a trunk on the other side of the river, both of pure, transparent gold. At
first I thought I saw two trees; I looked again, and saw that they were
united at the top in one tree. So it was the tree of life on either side of
the river of life. Its branches bowed to the place where we stood; and
the fruit was glorious, which looked like gold mixed with silver.
We all went under the tree, and sat down to look at the glory of
the place, when Brethren Fitch and Stockman, who had preached the
gospel of the kingdom, and whom God had laid in the grave to save
them, came up to us, and asked us what we had passed through while
they were sleeping. We tried to call up our greatest trials, but they
looked so small compared with the far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory that surrounded us, that we could not speak them out,
and we all cried out, “Alleluia! Heaven is cheap enough,” and we
touched our golden harps and made heaven’s arches ring.
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