Page:Tender Grass for Little Lambs.pdf/283

 with joy unspeakable and full of glory; and went on again with cheerful, hopeful hearts. Presently they came to another high hill, where they could see a deep, broad, dark, swift river, running at its foot, and beyond, in the distance, was the Heavenly Canaan, and the splendid city called the New Jerusalem. And as I looked I saw they went down one by one, singing and praying until they reached the bank of the river, into which they stepped, and the water closed over them, and I saw them no more. And as I turned away from that sight, I said, are they lost? will they rise no more? I