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- 0:00Chapter thirty one. The marriage feast, Ascend, beloved to the joy.
- 0:05The festal day has come to night. The Lamb doth feast his own tonight.
- 0:10He with his bride, sits down to night, puts on the spousal
- 0:13crown in the great upper room. Ascend, beloved to the love. This
- 0:18is the day of days to night. The bridal song is sung to night.
- 0:22Ten thousand harps are strung in sympathy with heart and tongue unto the Lamb's
- 0:26high praise. The festal lamps are lighting now in the great marriage hall by
- 0:32angel hands. The board is spread by angel hands. The sacred bread is
- 0:36on the golden table. Late the king his own doth call. The gems
- 0:40are gleaming from the roof like stars and nights round dome. The festal reeds
- 0:45are hanging there. The festal fragrance fills the air, and flowers of heaven
- 0:50divinely fair unfold their happy bloom. Long long deferred, now come at last
- 0:55the Lamb's glad wedding day. The guests are gathering to the feast. The
- 1:00seats in heavenly order placed the royal throne above the rest. How bright the
- 1:03new array sorrow and sighing are no more. The weeping hours are past tonight,
- 1:11the waiting will be done to night, the wedding robe put on the
- 1:14glory, and the joy begun. The crown has come at last. Without
- 1:19within is light, is light. Around above is love. We enter to
- 1:23go out no more. We raise the song unsung before we doff the sackcloth
- 1:29that we wore. For all is joy above. Ascend, beloved to the
- 1:34life. Our days of death are ore. Mortality has done its worst.
- 1:38The fetters of the tomb are burst. The last has now become the first,
- 1:42forever evermore. Ascend, beloved to the feast. Make haste. Thy
- 1:47day has come. Thrice blessed are they. The lamb doth call to share
- 1:51the heavenly festival in the New Salem Palace Hall, our everlasting home. Bonnard.
- 1:59End of chapter thirty one.