Audrey : $b or, Children of lightWalton, O. F., Mrs.
Religion
Audrey : $b or, Children of light
Walton, O. F., Mrs.
Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Children and death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Juvenile fiction
"It looks beautiful," said Audrey, with a sigh. "I do wish he could see
it."
"It's a good picture of the little lad now," said the old man; "for
does not the Lord say, 'They shall be like unto the angels'? And of
the angels we read, 'Their raiment is white as the light.' Yes, the
Children of Light are clothed in the robes of light, even fine linen,
clean and white, which is the righteousness of the saints. Once they
were covered with sin, but now they are white and clean, made white in
the blood of the Lamb, whiter than snow."
"I wish we were all there," said Audrey, "you, and me, and Granny
Robin, and Aunt Cordelia, and Stephen's father, and old Joe. Wouldn't
Stephie be glad if we were to come?"
As they walked home, Mr. Robin taught Audrey a little hymn, which she
liked very much, and which she always repeated afterwards, when she
came to look at Stephen's grave.
"'Within the gate, they dwell at home,
In rest, in life, in light;
No grief, no sin, no care can come,
But all is glad, is bright
Within the gate.'"
"'Without the gate, our weary feet
Still tread the vale of tears;
We often sin; our anxious hearts
Are sometimes filled with fears,
Without the gate.'"
"'Open the gate, Lord Jesus! Come,
Thou whom our hearts love well,
And bid us enter Thy dear home,
Where Thy beloved dwell.
Open the gate!'"
THE END.
Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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