May the Spirit
draw her into the Virgin Church of the New Creation!"
"Yee and amen!" exclaimed Eldress Abby, devoutly: "'For thus saith the Lord of
hosts: I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I
will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.'"
"O Virgin Church, how great the light,
What cloud can dim thy way?"
sang Martha from her place at the end of a bench; and all the voices took up
the hymn softly as the company sat with bowed heads.
Then Brother Issachar rose from his corner, saying: "Jesus called upon his
disciples to give up everything: houses, lands, relationships, and even the
selfishness of their own lives. They could not call their lives their own.
'Lo! we have left all and followed thee,' said Peter; 'fathers, mothers,
wives, children, houses, lands, and even our own lives also.' It is a great
price to pay, but we buy Heaven with it!"
"Yee, we do," said Brother Thomas Scattergood, devoutly. "To him that
overcometh shall the great prize be given."
"God help the weaker brethren!" murmured young Brother Nathan, in so low a
voice that few could hear him.
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