In the Last Consummate City by
Alexander Smiley The Secret Place, 1907 I saw the holy city, the new
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as
a bride, beautifully dressed for her husband. No longer will
there be any curse. The throne of God and of the
Lamb will be in the city, and His servants will serve Him.
Revelation chapter 21, verse 2 and 3. In the last consummate city,
all will be worshippers. Its inhabitants will have the
Godwood look. They will recognize God's existence,
His government, His watchfulness, His faithfulness, His grace. To them, he will be the reality
of realities. They will breathe through all
the happy year the atmosphere of the spiritual, the supernatural,
the divine, the infinite, the eternal. Atheism and unbelief
and forgetfulness of God will have spread their black wings
and flown forever away. In the last supreme city, all
will be brothers, uniting in adoration around the throne of
God and of the Lamb. They will gaze with kindly eyes
into each other's faces and will clasp each other's hands in love
and affection. It will be a society in which
a new spirit and a new law rule, the law and the spirit of love. Antagonisms, burdens, fears will
have vanished. Selfishness and greed will be
unthinkable. The sorrow which man causes man
will never be felt. In the last crystalline city
all will be saints. Its foundations are precious
stones, the sapphire of hope, the emerald of humility, the
chrysolite of truth, the amethyst of trust. Its twelve gates are
the twelve pearls of whitest and tenderest purity. No life
flourishes in its ethereal air, but the life that is redeemed
from all iniquity and that bears the image of Jesus Christ. There
is no dust in the highways, no smoke in the skies, no harsh
and discordant noise, no chilling or arid weather, no workhouse,
nor tavern, nor prison. The twelve gates were twelve
pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the
city was of pure gold, like transparent glass. I did not see a temple
in the city. Because the Lord God Almighty
and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun
or the moon to shine on it. For the glory of God gives it
light, and the Lamb is its lamp. Revelation chapter 21 verse 21
to 23 Blessed are those who wash their
robes that they may have right to the tree of life and may go
through the gates into the city. Revelation chapter 22 verse 14 you