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 And no one knoweth The Son, but The Father; 
 neither doth any one know The Father, but The 
 Son: and he to whom it shall please The Son, to 
 reveal Him." 
 
''For now I see Thee, face to face, 
 And know that I am saved by Christ." 
 
THY KINGDOM COME 
 
 "In Him was life, and the life was the light 
 of man." 
 
 THIS record of facts, of the actual expe- 
 rience of the abundance of life, held out 
 to mankind, even to repentant sinners, 
 beginning with a God-given power to believe 
 and trust in Christ, the belief changed to 
 knowledge by the manifestation of the Lord, 
 is written with the hope of helping some 
 sinner who, perhaps like me, has allowed 
 the fire of sin to lower him soul and 
 body; who has been overcome by the enemy 
 that leaves his trail of darkness, blinding men, 
 hardening their hearts, quenching the light 
 that is in them, and striving for the rule of 
 the flesh and the subjection and ultimate de- 
 struction of the soul. 
 
 The day came, however, when I awoke to 
 7 
 
8 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 the realization of my position, a "servant of 
 sin," and I longed to "be free," and "sin no 
 more," for I had been brought up to believe 
 in Christ, and even had a parrot-like knowl- 
 edge of the Gospel, although the darkness 
 within was placing obstructions before me in 
 my endeavor to find "The Way;" even taking 
 the so-called divisions in the good Shepherd's 
 fold as a means of puzzling and blinding me 
 to the fact that the Lord said : "Wheresoever 
 two of you are gathered together in My Name 
 there also am I." 
 
 Through reading the opinions of many 
 writers on religion and science, I arrived at 
 the conclusion that it would be well to know 
 not what some one thought, but rather to 
 know the TRUTH. Since then my conscious- 
 ness has been awakened to the knowledge that 
 the Lord taught : "I AM THE WAY, AND 
 THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE: NO 
 MAN COMETH TO THE FATHER BUT 
 BY ME." 
 
 At last the time came when it was given me 
 to choose the Christ, as the Preacher, in whom 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 9 
 
 I should place my trust; THE ONE upon 
 whom I should call to defend me, sinner 
 though I was : that I should endeavor to learn 
 what the DIVINE REDEEMER preached 
 and make an effort to keep the Lord's com- 
 mandments. 
 
 It is not my intention to criticise the meth- 
 ods of the men who are sent to preach Christ's 
 Gospel ; who labor in the vineyard ; who go 
 about feeding the lambs and the sheep. The 
 TRUTH to which I am endeavoring to call 
 attention is that the Lord, in building His 
 Church, calls souls by personal invitation to 
 the individual directly to GOD, to THE 
 GOOD SHEPHERD'S MANIFESTED 
 CARE. 
 
 The Christ instructs us to worship in spirit, 
 and in truth; for "GOD IS A SPIRIT, and 
 they who adore Him must adore Him in spirit 
 and in truth. The Lord requires mankind to 
 pray "for the glory of GOD alone, and not 
 for the glory of men," and requests us to heed 
 the personal invitation. "But thott, when thou 
 shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having 
 
10 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 shut the door, pray to the Father, in secret ;" 
 you therefore shall pray in this manner : "Our 
 Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy 
 Name; Thy Kingdom come," etc. The Lord 
 desires us to "seek the Kingdom," for we are 
 instructed to "Seek ye first the Kingdom of 
 God, and His justice." "Ask, and you shall 
 receive; seek, and you shall find; knock, and 
 it shall be opened to you." 
 
 Having progressed thus far in the study of 
 the Gospel without the real understanding of 
 the spiritual meaning of it all, which did not 
 come until later and when "THE SPIRIT, 
 who breatheth where He will," had come, I 
 chanced to read a little article written by some 
 struggling soul, in which the opinion was set 
 forth that it might be probable that the history 
 of the Christ was a beautiful ideal of the 
 imagination. 
 
 THE DEITY OF CHRIST I had never 
 doubted. In reading the Gospel, sufficient 
 light had been given me to see that the Christ 
 was different from man ; today I have been 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 11 
 
 trained to KNOW that the measure of that 
 difference is 
 
 THE CREATOR, AND THE CREATED. 
 
 While reading on this subject, however, I 
 permitted the views expressed by the writer to 
 frighten me; I allowed myself to think (for- 
 getting that the thought imperiled my most 
 precious and treasured possession faith in 
 Christ) that it might be only a most beautiful 
 story of the imagination, conceived in the 
 mind of man, of the one perfect ideal. Then, 
 as I stood before a picture of the Savior of 
 mankind and asked of the One whom the por- 
 trait represented if the story was true, ac- 
 knowledging before GOD that I had sinned, 
 and that it rested with GOD IN CHRIST 
 alone whether my soul should ever see resur- 
 rection and whether I should ever be "born 
 again" and see "everlasting life." Through 
 the power of the Lord, the answer was given 
 me; to me, a sinner, the Spirit was sent, and 
 through His manifestation I realized and know 
 
12 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 today that the thought of THE CHRIST 
 originated in THE MIND OF GOD. 
 
 One morning I heard a sharp tap at my 
 window, but on looking there saw no one. 
 This was repeated on several occasions and 
 at last aroused in me sufficient wonder to 
 cause me to speak of the occurrence to the 
 people in the house, who became rather 
 indignant ^at what they considered an insinua- 
 tion on my part that the house, a modern 
 home, was haunted, an idea which gave me 
 much surprise. Although a believer in Christ 
 and, through the Savior's redeeming power, 
 the spirit life of mankind, the idea of a spirit 
 visitant to an ordinary western home made 
 little impression on me. 
 
 Going into the sitting room one morning 
 to read a novel, which seemingly had no ex- 
 cuse for its circulation, save that it ministered 
 to the pampering of the flesh, the tapping was 
 repeated at one of the windows but, deciding 
 that the rapping was caused by something in 
 the arrangement of the casements, my slight 
 fears were soon quieted. 
 
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 Another morning, when I should have 
 arisen early and taken up the cross instead of 
 neglecting- my duty, I heard a succession of 
 sharp, quick tapping right before a box of 
 Jerusalem wood containing A CRUCIFIX. 
 Upon arising the warning ceased for the time, 
 leaving me no longer either doubtful or afraid, 
 but sure that it was a communication from 
 some ONE not visible to me; and that I was 
 being reproved by a SPIRIT. Afterwards, 
 when in danger of falling into sin, the Spirit 
 always warned and reproved me. 
 
 Shortly before the occurrence just alluded 
 to I met a singer in whom I took an unfortu- 
 nate interest. The singer was married and 
 only the thought of the Lord's commandment, 
 and the desire to stand at night to say the 
 Lord's prayer, held me from yielding to the 
 suggestions of darkness that the singer, mar- 
 ried or single, might be had. If I had sinned 
 deeply before this, the sins it seemed to me 
 were always of I preferred to think they had 
 been under the impulse of fire in darkness 
 and in moments of weak, unguarded thought- 
 
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 lessness ; while this looked different to me, 
 deliberately premeditated a sinful life chosen. 
 Still I persisted, in spite of better instruc- 
 tions, in allowing my thoughts to dwell on, and 
 in going once more to where that singer was. 
 Then the Spirit, whose care was enfolding me, 
 insisted on a different line of conduct, even 
 appearing to weep for me. 
 
 The Spirit, of whose Name I was uncon- 
 scious, but whose beautiful lineaments irresisti- 
 bly reminded me of CHRIST, of GOD, com- 
 manded, and insisted upon by that very com- 
 mand, submission on my part to a preservation 
 from evil ; and also revealed to me in the fol- 
 lowing manner what the sin would mean to me : 
 
 After retiring one night I heard a noise at 
 the window. Upon seeking the cause, I dis- 
 covered that a ladder had been placed up to the 
 window, which was being opened by some one 
 like the singer. A line was thrown in which 
 I grasped and would have been drawn out 
 had I not been stopped by thought. I seemed 
 to be impressed with the recollection that the 
 one at the window, in the guise of a robber, 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 15 
 
 carried an instrument of death. Under the 
 force of that remembrance and in obedience 
 to some compelling POWER I was impelled 
 to drop the line, deciding not to go; the 
 window was closed, and the TRUTH, the 
 remembrance of GOD'S WORD, was brought 
 to my mind: "The thief cometh not but to 
 steal, and to kill, and to destroy :" "The devil 
 was a robber, and a murderer, from the be- 
 ginning : and he abode not in the TRUTH : 
 because TRUTH is not in him : when he 
 speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own : for 
 he is a liar, and the father thereof." 
 
 Very well do I understand that the Spirit 
 was keeping me from the murderer; some 
 IMMORTAL, who was good and kind, was 
 directing me a poor, obscure sinner; some 
 ONE, whose wonderful, watchful care in- 
 stinctively brought WORDS that I had read, 
 to my recollection. 
 
 "Let him who seeketh, not cease in his 
 search, until he find, and he shall wonder: 
 wondering he shall reach the Kingdom, and 
 then he shall have rest." 
 
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 Interiorly, and exteriorly, I was warned, 
 and reproved, and shown the nature of the 
 sin in me; far more and better care was be- 
 stowed on my soul by ANOTHER than I 
 would ever have thought of expending on that 
 soul myself; until at last I begged that I 
 might understand who was commanding me ; 
 for it was possible for me, with all my early 
 training and my short study of the Gospel, 
 to not know that 
 
 THE LORD PROMISED: 
 
 "If you love Me, keep My commandments : 
 and I will ask the Father, and He shall give 
 you another Paraclete, that He may abide 
 with you forever." 
 
 "The Spirit of Truth, whom the world can- 
 not receive, because it seeth Him not, nor 
 knoweth Him : but you shall know Him : be- 
 cause He shall abide with you, and shall be 
 in you." 
 
 "I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU OR- 
 PHANS: I WILL COME TO YOU:" 
 
 "He that hath My commandments, and 
 
Commanded to The Supper. One of the "Many, for whose redemp- 
 tion, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ's blood was 
 
UNIVERSITY 
 
 or 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 19 
 
 keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and 
 he that loveth Me, shall be loved by My 
 Father, and I will love him, and will manifest 
 Myself to him :" "We will come to him, and 
 make OUR abode with him." 
 
 "When the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, is 
 come, whom the Father will send in My 
 Name, He will teach you all things, and bring 
 to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to 
 you." 
 
 The Spirit of Truth appeared before the 
 Crucifix and graciously gave assurance of the 
 glory of the Christ, as the Redeemer of man- 
 kind. 
 
 The Paraclete showed me a large dark cross 
 and to my hearing was brought the sound of 
 voices crying "Crucify HIM, crucify HIM" 
 and then there was a FORM on that cross 
 from which THE LIGHT shone out. 
 
 The Holy Ghost "convinced me of my sins" 
 and their effect on my soul ; "convinced" me 
 that I had placed MONEY before THE 
 LORD; that I had "lifted my heel" against 
 COMMANDS, permitting "fire" to enter, 
 
20 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 "seeing death" by sinning in the flesh in pref- 
 erence to keeping THE LORD'S COM- 
 MANDMENT. And daily the Paraclete re- 
 minds me an humble sinner one indeed of 
 the least ones of the mighty Gospel the Lord 
 preached to mankind nineteen centuries ago. 
 
 The Spirit of Truth disclosed to me a long 
 row of the Father's ''many mansions," one 
 apparently more beautiful than all the others. 
 
 Trained to go "unto Him ;" given the power 
 by God to believe; baptized in "the Name of 
 the Father and of the Son and of the Holy 
 Ghost ;" a little one had received an invitation 
 to the Heavenly Feast, and therefore being 
 child of Resurrection, child of God, while in- 
 nocent, was received in the most beautiful 
 mansion. But I sinned and sank in darkness 
 out of the abode of purity, of Life. Repent- 
 ance came and saw me received in one of the 
 Father's mansions ; but farther away down 
 that row, sin again, again cast out; once 
 more repentant, and once more received in 
 one of Our Father's mansions, but always far- 
 ther awav farther down until I reached the 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 21 
 
 last one, the last stand. Then the Paraclete 
 warned me to "sin no more." Through Di- 
 vine forgiveness and power I can share in 
 man's "redemption," purchased by the "shed- 
 ding of the Savior's blood," and the Lord, 
 IN THE GLORY OF THE HEAVENLY FATHER, 
 will receive me in the most beautiful mansion, 
 and in the state of innocence. 
 
 Like the man of old, I too have seen hand- 
 writing on the wall in letters as of fire ; but 
 the message was that there is "ONE GOD." 
 Other words there were, too, in that message, 
 one of which was "MINE" and I know that 
 THE ONE, who said: 
 
 "I am The Good Shepherd, and I know 
 Mine, and Mine know ME:" has claimed me 
 as His sheep, His child. 
 
 Because God is good, man has beheld HIM, 
 manifested as FLESH, called "THE 
 CHRIST, THE SON, THE TEMPLE OF 
 THE SPIRIT GOD;" as FLESH, that "de- 
 scended from Heaven, THAT HAD THE 
 POWER TO BE TRANSFIGURED." The 
 Temple which although laid down for man- 
 
22 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 kind, SAW RESURRECTION, was "Built 
 up again in three days" by "the Lord." 
 "Destroy this Temple, and in three days I 
 will build it up again." "This is the living 
 Bread, which cometh down from Heaven: if 
 any man eat of this Bread, he shall live for- 
 ever: and the Bread, which I shall give is 
 My Flesh, for the life of the world:" 
 
 "And no man hath ascended into Heaven, 
 but HE that descended from Heaven : THE 
 SON OF MAN, WHO IS IN HEAVEN: 
 he that believeth in HIM, is not judged; but 
 he that doth not believe, is already judged:" 
 "And this is the judgment: because The Light 
 is come into the world, and men loved dark- 
 ness rather than The Light, for their works 
 are evil : for every one that doth evil, hateth 
 The Light, and cometh not to The Light, that 
 his works may be reproved : but he that doth 
 truth, cometh to The Light, that his works 
 may be made manifest, because they are done 
 in GOD." 
 
 If we follow the correct meaning of some 
 articles written by men of the present time, 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 23 
 
 it seems there may be men in this twentieth 
 century of Truth whom darkness is endeavor- 
 ing to blind to such an extent as to render 
 them capable of seeming to call THE LORD 
 JESUS CHRIST, SON of David, and Abra- 
 ham; when THE WORD OF GOD teaches 
 us that : "David in spirit, called HIM LORD : 
 how then is HE, his SON : "Before Abraham 
 was made, "I AM:" "THE LORD THY 
 GOD." 
 
 One day I attended a meeting in a Jewish 
 Synagogue, not from any desire to learn their 
 ritual, but just to see those people whom THE 
 HEAVENLY KING visited, as our DIVINE 
 SAVIOR. 
 
 I listened to them praying to the Heavenly 
 Father to let The Light of His Shining Coun- 
 tenance shine upon them, and then went to a 
 place where it has pleased the Good Shepherd 
 to be manifested to some of HIS sheep. To 
 "one of the least ones," many times in THE 
 SPIRIT has it pleased the Lord to be made 
 manifest and through HIS SHINING 
 COUNTENANCE, to reveal THE HEAV- 
 
24 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 ENLY FATHER ; but here, where the Lord 
 has chosen to take up His abode with His 
 sheep, GOD has evidently made use of a ma- 
 terial object to reveal a Spiritual Reflection 
 of THE RADIANT LINEAMENTS of 
 THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, visible to 
 even the material eye when it so pleases the 
 Lord. I see THAT SHINING COUNTE- 
 NANCE, and as it has pleased the Lord to 
 reveal THE HEAVENLY FATHER to me, 
 I know that I see THE FACE OF GOD. 
 
 And I can also remember if we but under- 
 stood how plainly all this was taught to man. 
 
 "THE FATHER AND I ARE ONE: if 
 you had known ME, you would have known 
 MY FATHER ALSO: AND FROM 
 HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL KNOW 
 HIM : AND YOU HAVE SEEN HIM :" 
 
 "Have I been so long a time with you, and 
 have you not known ME : HE WHO SEETH 
 ME, SEETH THE FATHER ALSO." 
 
 Once, on beholding that Shining Counte- 
 nance, I dared to ask of the Lord why so 
 much was done for me ; another expression 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 25 
 
 shone out from the Lord's Holy Lineaments, 
 plainly "revealing the Heavenly Father :" 
 
 Go, "Seek the Lord," and see for yourself 
 what that revealing expression is. 
 
 Forgiveness sufficient to treat "a prodigal" 
 as "the pure of heart," seems to have been 
 given me ; but I bear the punishment of past 
 transgressions in their present effect; for the 
 darkness still would endeavor to control and 
 seek to suggest the formation of thoughts; at 
 v, hich Those Divine Eyes close and command 
 mine to be lowered. The expression of My 
 Heavenly Father is then the expression of the 
 Lord and Savior, sorrowful for, and sternly re- 
 proving my darkness and, partly hidden from 
 my sight by the dark reflection of the face of 
 my fallen soul ; looking on that dark reflection, 
 I can understand the need of and the hope for 
 fallen mankind in those promises: 
 
 "I am The Resurrection, and The Life; if 
 you believe in Me, although you be dead, yet 
 shall you live :" 
 
 "Unless a man be born again of living 
 
26 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 water, and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter 
 into the Kingdom of God." 
 
 Are there any of the people who do not see 
 the Lord? It was promised that "They who 
 seek, shall find." 
 
 Surely none of you are too busy "Buying 
 a farm, or a yoke of oxen, or marrying a wife" 
 to heed the "COMMAND TO THE SUP- 
 PER." Even children weary of toys, and 
 gilded baubles, and thirst for knowledge. 
 
 There IS ONE who said: 
 
 "IF ANY MAN THIRST, LET HIM 
 COME TO ME AND DRINK:" 
 
 Go "SEEK, TO ENTER THE KING- 
 DOM:" "SEEK, TO FIND:" "THE LORD 
 OF THE KINGDOM." 
 
 By many more signs it has pleased the 
 Lord to bless and reprove me. I was 
 shown a beautiful home in which a great feast 
 was prepared. Numerous little relations, 
 manly lads and innocent young girls, were 
 invited and had arrived. They saw the beau- 
 tiful banquet spread, they knew the music 
 prepared for them, in which a heavenly choir 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 27 
 
 would join in singing glad hosannas to Our 
 King, WHO CAME AS CHRIST THE 
 LORD. But many of the young people, I 
 among the number, leaving the music silent, 
 the song unsung, the Supper forgotten, wan- 
 dered out among the fields, into the world, 
 until they came to the edge of what seemed 
 like a grave or pit, into which they curiously 
 LOOKED DOWN. I got too near the brink, 
 and tumbled in, swiftly descending, realizing 
 no more until I reached the LAST STAND- 
 ING PLACE. The thin crust of standing 
 ground beneath rocked and shook, coming up 
 in places, through the pressure of what ap- 
 peared to be a heaving lake. I seemed in 
 danger of being shaken from my standing 
 place and submerged at any moment. Was 
 that lake a sea of gas ? There is fire in gas ; 
 but it might have been water and there is 
 fire in water. Then I realized the danger ; AT 
 THE LAST THIN CRUST OF STAND- 
 ING GROUND IN THE DEPTHS, LIKE- 
 LY TO BE PLUNGED INTO A SEA OF 
 FIRE. 
 
28 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 Looking up at the bank I saw my former 
 companions. They looked down on me and 
 smiled. I did not think of asking of them 
 either pity or help ; nor for an extension of 
 what was mine by right the HAND OF 
 BROTHERHOOD; nor suspended judgment 
 of those who did not have the right TO 
 JUDGE. I LOOKED UP HIGHER. I 
 THOUGHT OF THE LORD AND MAS- 
 TER OF MEN, WHOSE COMMAND TO 
 THE FEAST I HAD BROKEN - - I 
 CALLED ON CHRIST TO DEFEND ME. 
 
 How truly can I say with my brother of 
 centuries ago, "Out of the depths have I cried 
 unto Thee, O Lord ;" AND THOU, O LORD, 
 HAST HEARD MY VOICE. Looking up 
 out of these depths where sin has placed me; 
 higher still than where my happy brothers are 
 afar, high up in the Heavens, I behold A 
 RADIANT FACE, one glance of whose shin- 
 ing Eye tells me all my sins ; ONE that looks 
 at me in kindness, in sorrow for my sins, in 
 urgent, insistent command ; that can even look 
 stern; but always in loving helpfulness. 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 31 
 
 On earth, through "the power of the Lord/' 
 in the unfolding of a higher expression of 
 GOD'S law, through the operation of the 
 SPIRIT, the Father in Christ has been mani- 
 fested to me ; and when the grave closes in 
 over this flesh, in the Resurrection I know I 
 shall see GOD IN CHRIST, in Heaven. 
 
 Among those who were shown me wander- 
 ing from the Feast, the Lord revealed one 
 (type of many) ; a beautiful, fair young girl 
 v, ho, in her journey through the fields, had un- 
 consciously reached the edge of the abyss. 
 With sweet, fair, light-illumined face, there 
 she stood on the brink of the pit, looking smil- 
 ingly down, entirely unconscious that one false 
 step might plunge her in the depths. The 
 good Shepherd chose that that young white 
 sheep of His should not sink and was pleased 
 to call her back, sending to her a message 
 through a "vessel" which, however weak, was 
 still "a vessel of election." She heard His 
 command ; answered with obedience, and is 
 safely sheltered in "His Hand." 
 
 "For My sheep hear My Voice and they 
 
32 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 follow Me ; and no man can take them out of 
 My Hand." 
 
 But she was shown as type of many who 
 seemed to be walking in the fields, the world, 
 ever drawing nearer to the line which once 
 passed leads downward. 
 
 The Lord has shown me that I can carry 
 a message, can call a warning to those broth- 
 ers, and especially to those young sisters who 
 have left the Supper and are drifting toward 
 slumber; unconsciously LOOKING DOWN 
 and wandering toward the murderer in the pit. 
 
 Down there you will see the effect of the 
 murderer, the devil, on humanity ; you will see 
 the being with higher consciousness and con- 
 science asleep ; there you may see the sinner, 
 who would feed the flesh, and starve the soul ; 
 you will see the murderer of virtue, who be- 
 trays virtue with honeyed words and Judas 
 kisses; who exchanges soiled coin for broken 
 commandments; there you will find the traf- 
 ficker in slaves, and the slave (both slaves) 
 dealing in a slave trade more horrible than 
 was the colored slavery, slave dealer and slave 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 33 
 
 held in a bondage, compared with which the 
 colored slave was free ; there you are in danger 
 of a plunge into fire : "WHERE THE WORM 
 DIETH NOT AND THE FIRE IS NOT 
 EXTINGUISHED." Leave the brink of the 
 pit, and LOOK UP. 
 
 "Seek the Lord of the Supper THE DE- 
 FENDER OF SOULS, of humanity. "For 
 every one that seeketh, findeth ; he who asketh, 
 receiveth: and to him who knocketh, it shall 
 be opened." 
 
 "Find" the Lord, then you can KNOW, as 
 well as believe, that GOD, OUR HEAVEN- 
 LY FATHER THROUGH CHRIST, IS A 
 SPIRIT WHO CAME TO MAN AS THE 
 CHRIST AND GUIDES US NOW AS THE 
 HOLY GHOST, AND IS ONE GOD. 
 
 What does the universe, and Heaven, offer 
 to man in comparison with n view of THE 
 FACE OF GOD? 
 
 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they 
 shall see GOD." 
 
 "And why take ye thought for raiment? 
 Consider the lilies of the field how they grow : 
 
34 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I 
 say unto you, that not even Solomon in all 
 his glory was arrayed as one of these : there- 
 fore if God so clothe the grass of the field 
 which is of today, and tomorrow is cast into 
 the oven, how much shall He clothe you." 
 
 We are told that we see around us every- 
 where the manifestations of God. We know, 
 for Christ taught us that although "His King- 
 dom is not of this world," "God makes the sun 
 to shine, and the rain to fall." The Lord also 
 taught us : "If God so clothe the grass of the 
 field, the lilies, which are of today and tomor- 
 row are cast into the oven ; how much more 
 will He clothe you." Certainly then those of 
 whom it may be said, "The Kingdom is with- 
 in," should "seek" for a higher manifestation 
 than the beauty of the perishable. The Lord 
 has promised those who are in the image of 
 His Lineaments a manifestation of the Divine 
 Countenance. 
 
 Has the Lord taken up His abode with you ? 
 Do you see His Face ? Are you in His person- 
 ally manifested care? 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 37 
 
 Do you see your Heavenly Father revealed 
 through the features of the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 manifested to you in The Divine Personal In- 
 dividuality ? 
 
 Are you guided daily by God's Holy Spirit 
 of Truth, and shown the true state of your 
 own soul ? 
 
 When you are in danger of sin, are you 
 immediately reproved, and preserved from evil, 
 and on looking to see your Deliverer, do you 
 indeed behold the Lord; the same God in the 
 same Christ, teaching to you the very Gospel 
 taught to mankind nineteen hundred years 
 ago ; the same glorified Savior ; the Lord you 
 know so very well from the impression made 
 by the study of His Word? 
 
 Have you gone "seeking for the Lord" and 
 "the Kingdom of God?" 
 
 Surely you to whom "much is given" of 
 whom "much shall be required" should seek 
 the Giver. 
 
 To one who actually knew very little of the 
 Father's wondrous plan of life for mankind ; 
 to me, a fallen sheep, who understood so very 
 
38 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 little of the Gospel of Christ, the Kingdom 
 has been opened. While yet "Afar, the Heav- 
 enly Father saw a prodigal," saw me wander- 
 ing naked and ashamed, cold and despised; 
 and then the good Shepherd clothed me in 
 the "clothing of His sheep ;" even sending the 
 Paraclete, who brought me to the Door of 
 the Kingdom. There, it has pleased the 
 Heavenly Father to permit me to see other 
 sheep in the various congregations, who stand 
 with heads bowed in reverent acknowledgment 
 at that Door the Lord Jesus Christ through 
 Whom they are entering into the Kingdom. 
 The Heavenly Father has also (in answer to 
 my desire to be allowed to go out and see His 
 harvest fields) given me the pleasure of view- 
 ing His great spiritual wheat fields in spirit. 
 
 On earth, "God's Footstool," in the home 
 of my parents, I have stood among the wheat 
 fields on the northwestern plains and have seen 
 the white wheat which God creates for man- 
 kind's daily bread, grow up from seed planted 
 in the rich prairie soil ; have seen the times of 
 clouds and rain during the growth of that 
 
THY KINGDOM COME. 39 
 
 grain ; and have been brought to see the abso- 
 lute necessity of the bright sunlight which 
 God causes "His sun" to pour out in such 
 brilliant abundance to bring the wheat to its 
 whitest, its pure, firm perfection. In the 
 vast spirit wheat fields which were shown me, 
 there were brothers laboring. In walking be- 
 side one of these, I noticed that in his hand 
 he carried pure, white food, which had been 
 given him to eat ; my brother requested me to 
 eat, and then said: "I shall partake of a por- 
 tion myself," but in spirit. I asked of him to 
 "Eat it all," as very sweet food of the same 
 Grain had also been given me ; Food sweet 
 and rich indeed, but crumbled and broken 
 some, by the vessel in which that Food was 
 being carried in my jdurney through the wheat 
 fields. I shall eat it. For the Lord has bap- 
 tized me ; and, "Where the Savior leads, I 
 should like to follow." 
 
 The wheat in those wonderful spirit wheat 
 fields seemed to be in excellent condition ; full 
 grown and well headed out. The grain must 
 be sweet, wholesome and white; the strong 
 
40 THY KINGDOM COME. 
 
 winds were rushing by ; the clouds were in evi- 
 dent readiness to move ; all that spirit wheat 
 needs to bring it to its fullest perfection, "white 
 and ready as it is for the harvest," is the 
 manifestation of the Light, the Radiant Face 
 of God our Heavenly Father, revealed through 
 the Shining Countenance of Our Lord and 
 Savior Jesus Christ. That manifestation has 
 been promised to those "who seek." "Ask, 
 and you shall receive; seek, and you shall 
 find ; knock, and it shall be opened to you." 
 
 "In the beginning was the Word, and the 
 Word was with God, and the Word was God ; 
 the Word was in the beginning with God ; all 
 things were made by Him, and without Him 
 was made nothing that was made ; in Him 
 was life, and the Life was the Light of men." 
 
1938 
 
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