By a simultaneous impulse the three joined hands.
"Could anything be more divinely ordered?"Balthasar continued. "When we have found the Lord, the brothers, and all the generations that have succeeded them, will kneel to him in homage with us.And when we part to go our separate ways, the world will have learned a new lesson-that Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works."
There was silence, broken by sighs and sanctified with tears; for the joy that filled them might not be stayed. It was the unspeakable joy of souls on the shores of the River of Life, resting with the Redeemed in God's presence.