Best of all, faith came back to them. It
was as if the Lord had come back. In a real sense He had come back.
He was present in His servant the Prince. The people beheld the form
of the Son of God going about their streets doing good. They saw the
old miracles. The blind saw, the deaf heard God, as in the days when
Jesus was in the flesh. Even death was conquered before their eyes. A
real gleam of heaven is falling this evening on the once-darkened
village. The evil things that infested its life have been cast out and
a new heaven and a new earth have come to it. It is the Golden Age
come down to them from God.
"In his great task the dear Prince died. Our hearts are heavy for that
we shall see his face no more. But count it not strange that he died,
or that this trial should have descended on our King and us. It is the
rule in the kingdom of the Lord. Whoever will bring the Golden Age
where sin is, must himself lay down his life. For those peasants, as
Christ for all mankind, the Prince laid down his life.
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