Classic Poem

PARABLE LXXIII

Many Mansions in God's House

Let not your hearts be sunk with grief:
In God you rested your belief:
Believe likewise in me. Above
In God's great house of peace and love
Are many rooms for souls inspher'd;
If 'twere not so, ye should have heard.
I go your mansions to prepare;
And if I find you places there,
I will come after my decease,
And take you to myself in peace:
And where I am about to go,
And how to follow me, ye know.
Lord, (Thomas saith) thou doest not say,
Where goest thou, can we know the way?
To him then Jesus made reply,
‘The way, the truth, the life am I:
‘None but by me can have access
‘Unto my Father's happiness
‘Of me, had your conceits been true,
‘You would have known my Father too:
‘But henceforth ye shall have the grace
‘To know and see him face to face.’