God’s Love for His People
I have seen the tender love that God has for his people, and it is
very great. I saw an angel over every saint, with their wings spread
about them; and if the saints wept through discouragement, or were in
danger, the angel that ever attended them would fly quickly upward to
carry the tidings, and the angels in the City would cease to sing. Then
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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, and continued to go astray, the angels would look
sad and weep. Then 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 on 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. I will here state, that 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
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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