The world is clear and bright, and ever becoming clearer and brighter
to the humble, and true, and pure of heart—to every man and woman who
will live in it as the children of the Maker and Lord of it, their
Father. To them, and to them alone, is that world, old and new, given,
and all that is in it, fully and freely to enjoy. All others but these
are occupying where they have no title; “they are sowing much, but
bringing in little; they eat, but have not enough; they drink but are
not filled with drink; they clothe themselves, but there is none warm;
and he of them who earneth wages earneth wages to put them into a bag
with holes.” But these have the world and all things for a rightful and
rich inheritance; for they hold them as dear children of Him in whose
hand it and they are lying, and no power in earth or hell shall pluck
them out of their Father’s hand.