It was the
Lord who was coming, rather than the Lord who had come, in whom he had
joy. "The Golden Age would come when Christ returned to the earth," he
said. The verses in the Bible where this coming was foretold shone
like light for Goldmorrow. And often, as he read them aloud to his
brothers and his sister, his eyes would kindle and he would burst out
with speeches like this: "I see that happy time approaching. I hear
its footsteps. My ears catch its songs. It is coming. It is on the
way. My Lord will burst those heavens and come in clouds of glory,
with thousands and tens of thousands in His train. And things evil
shall be cast out of the kingdom. And things that are wrong shall be
put right. There shall be neither squalor, nor wretched poverty, nor
crime, nor intemperance, nor ignorance, nor hatred, nor war. All men
shall be brothers. Each shall be not for himself but for the kingdom.
And Christ shall be Lord of all."
In these discussions Goldenday was always the last to speak. And
always he had least to say.
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