“WE must accustom ourselves to the light which streams from that day on those who contemplate it in the spirit of faith. That light will change our whole lives, it will give us new conceptions concerning God, and ourselves, and the future for which we are in preparation. It will make us see beforehand, in some measure, how great and beautiful and tender and merciful are the dealings of God with us, how great He is in His justice and in His provisions for His children. It will make us see how rich we are already in the abundance of the means of grace and salvation by which we are surrounded. It will make us understand how intense must be that happiness which is in preparation for the children of God, how glorious that existence into which we shall wake up, to exercise therein for ever the faculties of that new life, of which we shall have the first taste and use in that great day of account.”

— Henry James Coleridge, The Return of the King: Discourses on the Latter Days (1883)

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