"All hope in God: none out of Him." "Nay, come closer," saith Sir _Robert_. "What shall hap in the next few reigns?" "`I will overturn, overturn, overturn, until He come whose right it is: and I will give it Him.' There is our pole-star, _Robin_: and I see no other stars. `This same _Jesus_ shall so come.' `Even so, come, Lord _Jesus_!'" "Yet may He not be said to `come' by the Spirit shed abroad in the hearts of men, and so the world be regenerated?" "Find that in God's Word, _Robin_, afore He comes, and I will welcome it with all my heart," answers _Father_. "I could never see it there. I see there a mighty spread of knowledge, and civility [civilisation], and communications of men--as hath been since the invention of printing, and may be destined to spread yet much further abroad. But knowledge is not faith, nor is civility _Christianity_. And, in fine, He is to come as He went. He did not go invisibly in the hearts of men." "But `the kingdom of God is within you.'" "Ay, in the sense wherein the word is there used. The power of _Christ_, at that time, was to be a power over men's hearts, not an outward show of regality: but `He shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go,' is a very different matter." "Oh, of course we look for our Lord's advent in His own person," quoth Sir _Robert_: "but I cannot think He will come to a sin-stained earth. It were not suitable to His dignity. The way of the Lord must be prepared." "We shall see, when He comes," gently answereth _Father_. "But if He _had_ not deigned to come to a sin-stained earth, what should have come either of _Robin Stafford_ or of _Aubrey Louvaine_?"