them whom He loves. This world,
and all that therein is, and then all the coming benefits of life and of
death. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death? We
all drank in the answer to that with our mother's milk, but what is
behind the words of that answer no mortal tongue can yet tell. All are
yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's. Till, what joy, what
comfort, what consolation, think you, did now possess the hearts of the
men of Mansoul! The bells rang, the minstrels played, the people danced,
the captains shouted, the colours waved in the wind, and the silver
trumpets sounded.

6. 'And till the glory breaks suddenly upon you, and as long as you yet
live in this life of free grace I shall give and grant you leave and free
access to Me in My palace at all seasons, there to make known all your
wants to Me; and I give you, moreover, a promise that I will hear and
redress all your grievances.' At all seasons; in season and out of
season. There to make known all your wants to Me. And all your
grievances. All that still grieves and vexes you. All your wrongs. All
your injuries. All that men can do to you. Let them do their worst to
you. My grace is sufficient for all your grievances. My goodness in you
shall make you more than a conqueror. I undertake to give you before you
have asked for it a heart full of free, full, and everlasting forgiveness
and forgetfulness of all that has begun to grieve you. No word or deed,
written or spoken, of any man shall be able to vex or grieve the spirit
that I shall put within you. You will immediately avenge yourselves of
your adversaries. You will instantly repay them all an hundredfold. For,
when thine enemy hungers, thou shalt feed him; when he is athirst, thou
shalt give him drink. For thou shalt not be overcome of evil, but thou
shalt overcome evil with good.

7. 'All these grants, privileges, and immunities I bestow upon thee;
upon thee, I say, and upon thy right seed after thee.' O Almighty God,
our Heavenly Father, give us such a seed! Give us a seed right with
Thee! Smite us and our house with everlasting barrenness rather than
that our seed should not be right with Thee. O God, give us our
children. Give us our children. A second time, and by a far better
birth, give us our children to be beside us in Thy holy Covenant. For it
had been better we had never been born; it had been better we had never
been betrothed; it