She remembered, too, the passionate sorrow and compassion felt by the King’s workers in the great city and the way in which they had seemed to feel themselves so at one with all the degraded and miserable and destitute people among whom they labored, and how sometimes they said they were almost brought to despair by the suffering all around them, and especially of their pity and distress over the innocent and helpless little children born into an environment of evil and degradation from which there could be no escape for them, and in which they were doomed to be corrupted and brought into even deeper evil and misery.

As she thought of these things Grace and Glory gave a little gasp. It seemed to her that all the peace and beauty and loveliness of that spot up there on the High Places had become overshadowed and darkened; as though it were wrong for her to be sitting up there “in the heavenly places” when down in the valleys below life was so cruel and so dreadfully different. What right had she to enjoy so much when so many others never had the least opportunity to share the same joys, indeed, could not even know anything about the King of Love by whose side she was sitting.

Then she heard his voice speaking.

“It is right and blessed, Grace and Glory, that you begin to feel something of the anguish of the world’s suffering and to know your own oneness with all the blemished and spoiled lives everywhere. To begin to understand at last what it must mean to the Heart of Love himself, and to realize that love can never rest until all evil is overcome and swallowed up in victory.

“Up here on this Mountain of Spikenard I would have you learn this truth, that love can never rest until real peace, which is perfect harmony with the law of love, is brought to the hearts of all men everywhere. This is the impelling incentive and motive for all witness and all the ministry of love in which you are being trained. For love must share with others or die. It must give to others all that it received or it cannot remain love. Love can only live in your heart as it propagates itself by sharing.

“Love is the constraining power which makes my lovers willing to go all lengths, even to death itself, in order to bring the good news of the love of God to those who have never heard it. It is love to the Lamb of God who bears the sins of the world and still must bear it and suffer with sinners until every sin-defiled creature turns at last from their sinning and seeks his delivering power. For as long as sin lasts and defiles and ruins his creatures, Love cannot come down from his cross nor cease to bear the sin of the world.”