"How beautiful God has made this world!" says one of the travellers. "How much more beautiful it must be in that other land very far off,[[14]] the Heavenly Jerusalem, where is no need of the sun,[[15]] for the Lord is their everlasting light."[[16]]
And the answer, associated to her with the dead lips of Edward, comes in Celia's quietest and softest tones—
"For 'the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.'"[[17]]
[[1]] James Ratcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater, eldest son of Francis, first Earl and Lady Mary Tudor, natural daughter of Charles II.; beheaded on Tower Hill, February 24, 1716.
[[2]] Col. ii. 18.
[[3]] 1 John ii. 17.
[[4]] Ps. xci. 11.
[[5]] Ibid. 1.
[[6]] A fact.
[[7]] Ps. xxv. 14.