The code of this dividing of good from evil men will be based on one
idea only: Compassion—Charity. During all the time which lies between
His first and second coming He has gone on living under the appearance
of the poor and the pilgrims, of the sick and persecuted, of wanderers
and slaves. And on the Last Day He pays His debts. Mercy shown to those
“least” was shown to Him, and He will reward that mercy in the name of
all. Only those who did not receive Him when He appeared in the
innumerable bodies of the poverty-stricken will be condemned to eternal
punishment, because when they drove away the unfortunate they drove away
God. When they refused bread, water and a garment to the poor man, they
condemned the Son of God to cold, thirst and hunger. The Father had no
need of your help, for all is His and He loves you even during the
moments when you curse Him. But you must love the Father in the persons
of His children. And those who did not quench the thirst of the thirsty
will themselves thirst for all eternity; those who did not warm the
naked man will suffer in fire for all eternity; those who did not
comfort the prisoner will be prisoners of Hell forever; those who did
not receive the stranger will never be received in Heaven, and those who
did not help the fever-stricken patient will shiver in the spasms of
everlasting fever.
The Great Poor Man in the day of His glory will, as justice dictates,
reward every one with His infinite riches. He who has given a little
life to the poor will have life forever; he who has left the poor in
pain will himself be in pain forever. And then the bare sky will be
peopled with other more powerful suns, with stars flaming more brightly
in the heavens and there will be a new Heaven and a new Earth, and the
Chosen will live not as we live now, like beasts, but in the likeness of
angels.
WORDS WHICH SHALL NOT PASS AWAY
But when shall these things come to pass? These are the signs, this is
the manner in which it shall happen. But the time? Shall we be still
here, we who are now under the light of the sun? Or shall the
grandchildren of our grandchildren see these events while we are dust
and ashes under the earth?
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