Footprints for Pilgrims - 12

 
Is He not worthy to have His saints with Him?... The words, "If ye loved me, ye would rejoice that I said, I go unto the Father," may be quoted here as true in this case also. Oh, have we no love for those that go? No love save for our own selves?... It is.. wretched selfishness which forgets God's joy and Christ's joy in welcoming to His presence a soul that leaves us, and which hinders, too, our thinking of its great gain.