29. “For he that liveth a productive life in me seeketh, and shall obtain heaven terrestrial and heaven eternal.
30. “Go ye out upon the earth, beneath the earth, upon the waters, beneath the waters and upon the trees. Gather in the blessings of God and develop them in me that ye prove yourselves worthy of compensation. For weakness and poverty is of the devil but richness and power is of God.
31. “But where there is no love, righteousness, and faith in your transactions the glory of heaven shall vanish and the misery of hell shall occupy the soul.”
CHAPTER 14.
THE BEGGAR.
1. And it came to pass that on the twenty-eighth day of the eighth month of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven (according to the English years but the fourteenth year according to the Athlican years) a young man twenty-two years of age came into the Gaathly begging for money.
2. The Shepherd looked upon the young man and said, “Thou art in the bloom of youth and power, but because thou art not of me, ye must beg.
3. “Go ye however through the highways and into corners, even so behind closed doors and gather men unto me, that they be lifted up from hell unto salvation.
4. “Then shall ye not be a beggar of me, but a sower and a reaper in me.
5. “For as many as believe and walk in me shall be saved. I shall relieve them of their miseries. I shall banish their sorrows. I shall defend them. I shall be a light in their darkness. I shall raise them up when all hopes are dead.
6. “I shall harden my heart against backsliders. The hypocrite, the liar, and the thief, I despise.