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I'm sure we feel a real personal joy and blessing from my soul to be here. The only reason for coming is to exalt the Lord Jesus, and to speak well of him, and to bless your heart in the ministry of that blessed person. And we've had real joy in speaking of his father, too, and we thank God for the blessings that the father is given.

I would like to say just a brief word concerning the book. I was constrained, rather against my willingness, to write the book by some dear friend in St. Louis. We worked together on it, though I did all the writing and the planning, and we worked together to put it into an edition, and the brethren in St. Louis very kindly financed the complete publication.

5,000 books were printed and came out in August, at the end of August. By the end of November, those 5,000 books were gone, and they've printed another edition which has just come out, and 2,000 of those were waiting when they came out, and they will soon be gone. But, we do trust that God will continue to bless the ministry that is being used by him It's more of a study book for the believers, and many young people, as well as all the people in the assemblies, I understand, are using it for a certain book of study in relation to the life of a believer, and his and her responsibilities as the scripture guides us in the pattern of the word of God from the beginning to the end of one's Christian life.

The title of the book is Living His Life, and I do say that you will remember it before the Holy Grail, and when the book comes, I trust you will avail yourself of that as well. Tonight, in our closing message, shall we read from John chapter 14. John chapter 14 and the first six verses.

It has been a great pleasure, and I can tell you, to speak this week concerning the Father. We have touched upon the person who reveals the Father through the morning session, and we have the privilege of seeing at the commencement of our night study that it was the coming of the Son of God, and his coming into the world, to reveal the Father that ever has made him known to mankind. We have the privilege of seeing he not only came to reveal the Father, he came to gather the children for the Father, and what joy it is that his children for those who will come into the family to him even tonight.

We also saw something of the divisions of the family, concerning the strength, the development, and growth spiritually as being fathers, granddads, and little children. We also noted some of the desires of the Father's heart to delight him, and particularly that he excites us under his own governmental authority, and that he deals with us day by day in governmental and disciplinary action to make us more like himself. Last night we had the great joy of looking at some of the privileges of the Father to monitor the family, to care over us, protecting us, feeding us, closing us, and the great privilege that we are able to come to him asking knowing that he can do exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or even think.

Tonight, there's only one thing that we could close with as a final message, and that is the Father's house. The blessing home to which the children shall be taken. We read the text in verses of John 14.

The Lord Jesus saying, let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house I'll tell you, don't you? If it were not so, I would have told you.

I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will, or I am coming again, and receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord we know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

Known am Thomas unto the Father, but by me. May God bless the reading of his words. May the Holy Spirit illumine the world, and illumine our hearts and our minds as we meditate tonight upon the final message, the Father's hope.

I'm sure that many others are well acquainted with the second of these words which we have read, and that great section of the word is gone, beginning with John 13, and closing with John 17. It's one of the most marvelous portions of Scripture. I've often thought there is suspicion within that portion of Scripture to keep the child at God encouraged all along the pathway of life until we reach the Father's hope.

Let me give you just a brief outline of the whole section. In chapter 13, you have the last great act that our savior did when he was busy going in that upper room on the night of his betrayal. That last great act of him was to disrobe himself of his undergarments, gird himself with his armor, take a basin of water, and wash the disciple's feet.

That last great act that he performed for his disciple was significant of what he was he doing, and what he is now doing from heaven above. That by the basin of water which is the word of God, he is caring for the feet of his saints as we travel through this wilderness. He keeps us at the feet of his saints, as we saw yesterday in our morning study.

All his saints are in my hands, and that blessed one how he ministers to the feet of his beloved people. As we go through this pregnancy, he would wash our feet daily in the water of the word, and the best place for the believer to keep him and her feet is in the hands of his most blessed Lord, and be daily washed in the labor of his precious book. Chapters 14, 15, and 16, we could call them the last words of the Lord Jesus, or how we value the last words of those who made these dearest to us.

And, I believe that every believer should, indeed, should noticeably cling with devotion and interest to the last words that our saint has gave his own. When you read them in John 14, 15, and 16, in the 14th chapter, they are words of comfort for their hearts, as they quarreled when thinking of him leaving and going back to the Father. In the 16th, 15th chapter, they are words whereby he might strengthen and empower their lips to speak for him, and to be truthful for him during his actions.

In the 16th chapter, they are words that tell how he would instruct their minds by the signing of the Holy Spirit, and so, to comfort their hearts, to empower their lips, and to instruct their minds, he speaks those lovely words of John 14, 15, and 16. And, in the last section, the 17th chapter, we have his last great prayer. Oh, what a prayer! One that he is constantly praying at the right hand of the Father of love, on the behalf of his own.

The thing I remind you is that all of it had a great motive, and there was the greatest of motives behind all this section. And, in the opening verse of John 13, you have the motive revealed where the Lord Jesus, we read often, now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour would come, that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them to the end. And, that great motive is never wavered.

It never changes, not even you and I may do, serious and offensive as it may be to his dear heart, to never sway him, nor beat him the motive of his affection for every one of us. For that motive is love, and out of the great heart of his own love for his dear children, the one who he has redeemed, the Lord Jesus got free, and does the work that we read in this section of John. Those beloved may I point out to you, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them to the end.

And, may I make a distinct declaration as to the meaning of that end. It is not that there will ever be an end to his love. That we know could never be true.

Neither does it mean that there is an end to what he is going to do, for what he will yet do will go on through the endless phases of eternity. And, I believe the meaning simply and clearly is this. His love for his own is such that he is determined he will win such a final objective to his loving heart's purposes.

And, thank God, what that objective is, is to bring them all to the Father's own, and into the promised presence, and present them to the Father above in that glorious moment. Oh what an objective! My, I can almost see his face, and hear the joy of his voice when, in that great day, he gathers them out of all the earth, sons from earth, the glory sons, all these feathered kiddie pups, the kiddie pups. He's going to gather them all together, the bread in Christ's own right first.

Then he, we saw the life of his name, shall be called up together in the crown to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with them all. And, it will be his joy, and the objective of his love, to bring them into the Father's presence, and say, Father behold I am the children which thou has given me. I'm certainly glad that's his objective, because I know I'm going to get through.

He's going to bring me through. He's going to bring every one of them into that Father's house. And, when he spoke to the disciples in the six verses we have read in John 14, he was telling them of that Father's house, my Father's house, and who but the Lord Jesus could give us anything, and impart any knowledge regarding the Father's home.

Look in John 13, please. May I point out to you in verse three, Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and he went to God, and he was the only person that can give us any information about the Father's home. He came from there, and he did the Father's work completely on the earth, and then he returned back home, and so we have every confidence our Lord Jesus can tell us something about the Father's home.

And, I wish that you would follow me carefully and prayerfully, as well as joyfully, to consider that Father's home from the verse he spoke in John 14, as the old movement is. First, consider with me its reality. Its reality, the reality of that Father's home, the reality of that home in the heavens above, the reality of being in a home longer in the glory, far from this earth.

None of us have ever traveled very far, not in relation to the universe. I don't think that any of you have ever been to the moon yet, have you? And, I'm not expecting to, but you'll never listen. That home in the glory above, it is real.

It is real. And, let me tell you why I believe it is real, because you don't know who it is. I'll give you three reasons why I believe in the reality of that home.

But, first of all, let me point out what the Lord Jesus said, and that's most important, right in the middle of verse two. He said, if it were not so, I would oppose you. Let me give you the three reasons which will, which also will bring you back.

First of all, may I say, my faith in God brings to my heart, and my soul, the reality of that home. Note those words which Jesus spoke in verse one, when he told his disciples, you believe in God, and I am grateful that I believe in God. We have too many atheists today, but thank God for everyone who believes in God.

I believe in God. He is spiritual God. He is the creator of the universe, and the great God of the universe.

I believe in his existence. I believe in his personality. But, I not only believe in God, I believe in Christ, and Jesus said, believe also in me.

And, I believe in Christ. I believe in his pre-existence. I believe in his incarnation.

I believe in his sinless, spotless, pure and holy life. I believe in his substitutionary upon the cross. I believe in his burial and resurrection, and his ascension to the right hand of the father.

I believe in his priesthood at the right hand of God now. I believe he's coming again. I believe he'll be the king of kings in the morn of March, and I believe his kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom.

I believe in Christ. Hallelujah! Oh, beloved one, it's joyous to see my faith in Christ. As there's hope for my heart and my mind, there is such a place as the Father.

But, not only that, my faith in God, my faith in Christ, but my faith in the word of God. The word I read is as precious as gold. They're leaving it from cover to cover to read the word of God, and I'm just as embarrassed as the old college teacher when he said he would believe in the word of God all the way from generations of western revolutions.

You know what he meant, and what he meant was what counted the most, as he said it from his heart. My faith in the word of God holds a joy of believing the flesh of God is the word of God, and I know of no greater foundation than my faith in God, my faith in Christ, my faith in the word of God, to assure me of the reality of that blessed hope. You know, there's a lot of folks that just can't believe it's real.

I met a religiously cool college man years ago on one of the plantations in South Carolina, and I must have been enthusiastic, as usual, telling him of my joy and hope of going to heaven, and suddenly he said, wait a minute captain, you isn't going back so soon, is you? Well, it kind of took my breath away for a minute. It just doesn't seem real to many people, but my great love for the signs of God is real, and the reality of that hope. Then, when you're technically pleased, I think this is a strange expression, but think really of its locality, will you? Its locality.

Now, not to say that it's a stupid thing. At the end of verse two, in the opening words of verse three, I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, heaven is a place. My father's home is a place.

Many would say, oh heaven's only a condition. Well, I'd like to believe it's a condition, and I assure you it's one of the best conditions you'll ever find. But, as far as a being can agree alone, I'm not in agreement.

It is also a locality. It is a place. It is a place.

Astronomically, geographically, we are puzzled. We are unable to comprehend this locality, and the distance from the earth to that blessed home. But, it is a place.

When I read my Bible, I read when Christ ascended, he went up into heaven. He went into a place. He went back to the father, and sat down on the father's right hand.

He's in a place, and then I said I expect to be up in that place someday. To me, I illustrate it better than trying to fathom the astronomical distance, which is impossible to creep your mind. And, this is what means much more to me.

You see, where is that place? I'll tell you. It is the place where my father himself dwelt. My father dwelt there.

The father to whom the Lord Jesus has brought me. It is visible my father dwells there. A little further, my savior dwells there, has already ascended.

He has taken up into heaven, and sat down on the right hand of the majesty of God. It is the place where my savior dwelt. I cannot find him in Bethlehem.

I cannot find him in Nazareth. I cannot find him in Galilee. I cannot find him in Capernaum.

I cannot find him in Jerusalem. I cannot find him at the cross. I cannot find him in the tomb.

I cannot find him in Bethlehem. He left Bethlehem, and he ascended up, and went into heaven. His father's home.

My savior dwells there. And, you know, I'll tell you something. A place means a lot more to you than to know somebody who's there, and somebody who's not there.

You know, you'll find, even at a small mortgage, there's no place like home, even on the earth. I mean, on this earth. It's not the house you're living.

It's the people who live there. It's the dear ones within your homes that make home what it should be in it to the appreciative heart. My savior dwells there.

There are holy angels there. It's the place where Herod and his seraphim, holy angels of God innumerable, doing the ministry of God at his command. They too are in the heavens above, and I've access to the throne, and to the confines of that glorious place.

Here come a little name. It may comfort your heart, as it would mine. My own dear father is there, my own dear mother, and you can name a lot of your own, dear one.

Perhaps in terms of presence with the Lord. Hope your mother didn't come in the head of us, did she? But that's where they are. They're Christians.

We know where he is in the presence of his father, and a happy, oh, a happy innumerable number of spirits who have gone into the presence of God, enjoying the sunshine of his presence, living upon the face of their savior, taking them home with them, and in need of them in the glory of his mercy life. Life is where time falls. Maybe you don't feel like that, but let me encourage you to look where they are.

Those dear ones are in a locality. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Oh, what a home! The dignity of what the Savior presents, not only of its locality, the dignity, please, of its simplicity, its looseness, its joy, not the ending words of the chapter.

He begins saying it, let not your heart be troubled. Oh, there was this man, when he was leaving, they could hardly believe, and that they would see his face no more, just so difficult to comprehend, and they were not saddened with him, and then he begins to say, let not your heart be troubled, and when you recognize the meaning of these words, that they did not trouble, it was only because he did not think about that home, and he was to bring before them the place where he lived in, in the Father's house, and then in that Father's house there will be eternal blessing, and solicited in long-lived comprehension, the solicity of that home to carry in the blessing of salvation. What is there to it? Oh, what a home that is! May I point out, first of all, it will be a home of wrath.

It will be a home of wrath. So, what did the Hebrews say? They will be angered from wrath unto the people of God, and for the joy they know, as we sometimes say, that all my land is at trials all over, and I'm safe on that beautiful shore. The joy of knowing life is a struggle who will be over.

The struggle on earth, the struggle of life, the struggle against sin with its power, the struggle against the world with its power, the struggle against the devil with his power, gone forever. And all the battles, and all the heartaches, and the trials, forever gone, and it will be a home of wrath. All the lovers thank God for that.

Maybe some lovers won't even get any rest until they get their brother. Bob, I don't know. Sometimes it seems that way.

But that will be a home of wrath. There is a new friend of mine. He's with the Lord now.

Now, I remember at the close of the Bible study I was having with some of the sisters of Christ in the meeting of Charlotte. I took him along. He was teaching.

In fact, he was a very capable and confident teacher in his sphere of mathematics. He taught at the University of Maryland before the war for many years, and when the war came along and finished, and the war was going to be over, and he had to come to Charlotte. And I saw him sitting in the circle in the little meeting.

I looked at him and said, Fred, what in the world are you doing here? He said, teaching? I said, yeah. He named it. One of the smallest schools on the first floor of a building that is under existence today.

I said, what in the world did you leave the university for? He said, come down here. Very soon I was right here in Charlottesville, and I was looking for work, and I was afraid I might find it. I said, I saw all those EIs coming home.

This is what I got out. And he taught the rest of his class in a small school, and the only thing he did that he does without a doubt, he said, you know, he said to me at the close of this Bible study, he said, Brother Granville, when I get to heaven, if I can't rest for the next 5,000 years, I'm going to be disappointed. And I looked at him and I said, Fred, I hope the Lord has you starved around before now.

He's written you to work. I said, I knew what he meant. Then he left, and he said, look at the kind of teaching they have done.

He said, oh, how many others, often few, all to be at rest. We have rest in the Lord. We have rest of peace and conscience.

He said, I'll be praying around. I said, I don't know what he's writing. He said, that's going to be a home of rest.

Bless your heart, you'll never be tired of it. Praise the Lord. But it's not only a home of rest.

You know this wonderful thing about home even on the earth. I said, sometimes it's hard. Sometimes I come home to rest and don't get it.

On the earth, there will be rest days, but it will also be a home of love. A home of love. Love supernal.

Where hatred, where strife, where any difference could well ever be known. And in that home of love, trusting in the love of the Father, trusting in the love of the Son, the love of the Spirit, the love of Christ, and love will permeate the Father's conscience forever and ever. A home of love.

May the love of that which David Frank wrote, the greatest treasure that you can find in your own head, is love. And how do you do it today? Yes, often in life, family and children, chieftains and brothers, the royal of the family, love each other. Not thinking of the greatest importance among the children of God, but that of this love.

And when I show this thing, that all recruiting of the word of God is one objective, and Paul called Timothy to teach at Atherton, and gave him the instruction in his first edition, chapter one, to tell him that this commandment, that I'm speaking of the truth, the word of God, is love. The objective of the truth is to produce love out of a pure heart. And, you know, I've made a good point of this, and I'm saying things.

And may I say, my dear young believer, look, if my ministry doesn't produce love in your heart, I say, it's not that name, may, but love that is the purpose of the ministry of the word of God, is its purpose. But, in God's own, truth will be first. You know, you go to weddings, and sometimes I'm a little bit amused.

I ought not to be, but anyway, I get amused when I compare what people sing with the music of, and you hear somebody sing at a lovely wedding, same person loves. But, bless your heart, it doesn't last too long. You'll have to do what I have to do.

A friend of mine, when we were married about the same time, we were down in the basement of the chapel one time, and we were completely out. And, he said to me, I am strange to imagine I was somebody perfect, and the person you found out was a shop worker. Good! Start loving in that glory, a home of love.

I wish the Lord would come tonight and get us all there, to realize it will be a home of love. But, not only that, the felicity of that home says everything. It will be a home of fellowship.

Oh, what a lovely home! Is here a place which is nice and peaceful and nice with a cottage upon? Listen, we don't know anything yet. It will be all there in the right home, and what a fellowship it will be, though. What a fellowship! Fellowship unbroken, sweet and holy with the Father.

Fellowship forever with the Son. Fellowship forever with the Spirit. Fellowship in the shape of God, and holy angels.

What a fellowship! Oh, the joy of going to such a home like that, and the joy of knowing that it's the same place where you're going. And, it will be a home of joy forevermore. Oh, we can go on unceasing to speak of the many things of felicitous and joyous blessings that home will be.

Let's go on. Look at the university, please, and I want you to see the intensity of that home. In my Father's house are many answers.

Many underscores the word many. You know, we sometimes wish to sing a song. I don't know whether there is enough, yet I know there's billions there, but the immensely beautiful home for nearly 2,000 years, the Spirit of God and the Son of God has been gathered to build it, and the house is not yet built.

Remember the parable of the great shepherd, Luke 14, and how the parable that the Lord told him, he said, as the Lord gave the strength to man at the end of the storm to go out of the highways, out of the byways of the heavy, the thunder to come in. Why? That my house may be filled. And, beloved, when can you see the size of the Father's family? You've got to be surprised.

Many answers. Remember those wise words of the great shepherd? Oh, they're so precious indeed. Unparalleled by beginning, by finish.

You will be pleased with all the good things. You will be contented with taking this old beloved song, and singing it twice to come back to us. And even God, He is God, pleased with you.

Be pleased with all the good things. You have filled it with you. Then thou shalt make this soul an offering to sin.

This thou shouldest be. This thou shalt love this day, and the pleasure of heaven shall prosper in this day. And in that day, He says, Jesus, the Father of His soul, I may be satisfied.

I don't know how many children you would like in your family, but I don't know how many children God wants in His family. They're innumerable. But He's going to be satisfied, and His house will be filled.

Oh, the joy of knowing, His house will be filled. And the anxiety of it, my beloved family, I tell you this, if you're not saying you'd better hurry up and get it, as we shall see, then I will say, but still you, I don't know how much longer, but I'll tell you the next word. In my Father's house are many rooms.

You know I'm grateful for this word, in our ordinary words. I'm not grateful for a word that's in one of the modern words. But someone said, I'll translate it.

In my Father's house are many rooms. And I take objection. This is not a rooming house.

Then, sir, there has only been a rooming house since we've called it a home. I'm living in one, too, but I'm going to call it home. It's such a home thing.

In my Father's house are many rooms. This is the wonderful meaning of the Greek word, my dear, that Greek word means permanence. And that only this permanency is suggested by this word, and any of us that have come from the other side will certainly understand how the English translators of King James Day put the word mansion in.

For the machines from a great mansion, the ships from a great mansion, thank you for those in your boat, to stand against the storm and stormy winds, and weather, and to carry out the hardest of yields, you may find some of those old buildings still standing, firm, immovable. Some day the gentleman that drove us sent them away. 64 perhaps.

Chapter 13. The permanency of your home. Praise the Lord, at last I'm going to have a permanent home.

I don't know where you live. I don't care where you live. It's such a permanent home.

Now, the deep side of the door, the permanency of your home is that one in glory. In my Father's house are many mighty. And there's a joy of knowing that you'll be a home of permanence.

Now, you'll never want to leave it. You've built a home today. You've got it built upon, and recently you've had everything filled with life.

We should have done this. We ought to do that. I went to the young married couple in Cleveland, I recall.

The sons were all the way quite young. They'd been here quite a while before they got married. And when I came to dinner that night into their home, I said to my host, I said, Russell, how are you getting along? You have to make any... Because he bought the home himself, before his wife had ever seen it.

I said, Russell, how can you run by buying the home yourself, without your wife seeing it? Oh, she said, John, I've already put down a reward. Do you know what I mean? I'm so glad that the Father of God and the Savior is giving you a home. You'll be satisfied, and I'll be satisfied.

It will be the permanent home which we never will desire, and never shall leave. Praise be praised. It was in the same third verse, as we go on, in verse three, the Savior said, if I go into heaven's place with you, I will come again.

Meaning, literally, I will come again to receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also. And may I add, my beloved believers, this is just the imagery of my own. It's imagery.

All the joy of realizing. He said, I am coming. He knew, I'm the coming one.

And he said, oh, then you're coming. He said, I'm coming every day, I'm coming at any moment. I remember years ago, it was like 35 or more, then in the city of Miami preaching at the close of the meeting one night, speaking for some time on the coming of the Lord, a dear brother at the door said, Brother Bramble, I can tell you the hour the Lord's coming.

Well, I gave him a very soft look, and I said, I'm going in. And he said, you know now, and they said, think now. And of course, I had to agree.

Dear brothers, I don't know, but I am a firm believer, I don't know if you are, but I tell you the truth. I am a firm believer in the unification of my Lord Jesus. I know not the day nor the hour, but I know that in the kingdom of God he may come to take his own, to the Father's house.

I believe that where I am, there he may be also. May I point out, is not this the objective of this love? The anointing where the Father lives, the anointing of this Father's home, where he is. The anointing of this Father's home forevermore, where he has always been and ever will be.

And it is a turning point to bring you where I am, that he may be here with you. Hallelujah! As the hap's been done, O shall you be anointed with the glory of thy name. No sickness, no sadness, no dread, caught up in the cross with our Lord and Redeemer when Jesus received his own.

And we sing, O Lord Jesus, how long? How long will we shout the glad song, Christ returneth, hallelujah! Amen. Beloved, the intimacy of thy home, so much you pay for it, you may get only thy home before you get back to your home in the north, and I'm sure you'll never regret it, if even it comes. But last of all, do not be perplexed, Lord, we know not this is our Jewish household we know today, and Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me.

And he did this much because of the accessibility to that home. It's a possibility. We've told them of its blessed reality, and we've told them of its mortality, we've told them of its felicity, and of its immensity, and of its permanency, and of its immensity, and God is telling how to get there.

If you don't know, it's accessibility. I am the way, the truth, the life, no man cometh unto the Father except by me. For when night came, when night came, he lost the way to God, and he wandered into darkness.

When night came, he gave up the truth of God, and wandered into error. When night came, he lost the light of God, and he wandered into darkness. But our Lord Jesus, the blessed Son of God, came from that home, and he went on to enter Calvary to restore the way, and the truth, and the life, and he said, then restore thy what I took not away.

For when he died for us, he restored the way to God. When he died for us, he restored the truth of God, and when he died for us, he restored the life of God. It is a possibility.

For when Mansfield brought in an angel with a flaming sword at the entrance of his army to keep the way of the real life, our Lord Jesus came and took the judgment of that sword, and the justice of God's wrath and his righteous judgment, so that the door of the Father's house might be wide open for anyone who will come. Now, he says, I'm the way, I'm the truth, I'm the life. No man cometh under the Father but by me.

My beloved, if you're not going to that home tonight, you can if you will. The accessibility is yours if you take the Lord Jesus and come as you always have, by him. Only God, by his grace, come over, cause the Father to pour a deep love upon us, and the Son of the Beloved, who brought us to the Father, but made every part belong unto him tonight.

Cry out, cry out, Lord Jesus, and protest at the home of thy Father above, and may God bless that any sinner or slave may not be left behind for his next travels there. They might be blessed farther from the truth. Perhaps they may not be new, they do not have to be new, but even out of the treasures all will meet of this precious book that spirit can bless, and can bring to our hearts eternal merriment.

We wish to thank thee, Father. Thou hast been the great theme of these meetings each night. We thank thee, Lord Jesus.

Thou hast been the great subject of the morning meditations, and what more could we say than as we promise tonight, but to pray that God the Father may be more precious to his children, God the Son more dear to our hearts, and by the Holy Spirit's power, the days we may have less to live will be blessed for his glory, live for his honor, till we see him face to face. Father, we ask that we shall soon be in thy home, for sometimes we get quite weary down here, and we would indeed say, I'll be so glad when day is done. I'll be so glad when victory is won.

There'll be no sorrow in God's commandment. I'll be so glad when Jesus comes. Grant, blessed Lord, we shall not pass on till we see thee soon, face to face, and then shall the wondrous story of thy great splendor take root, and be with thee in that eternal home.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus, in his great abundance, the love of our Father God in great measure, the power, and the blessing, and the conviction, or the communion of the Holy Spirit be upon us. Amen.