Workers of the Lord

The  time is near for the fulfillment of those things proclaimed for the transformation of humankind. Blessed  will be those who have worked in the Lord’s field selflessly and with no other motive than  charity! Their workdays will be paid a hundredfold more than what they expected. Blessed will be those who said to their fellow men and women, “Brothers and sisters, let us work together and combine our efforts so that the Master may find the work accomplished at his coming”; for the Master will say to them: “Come unto me, you who have been good servants, you who have known how to silence your jealousies and discords so that no harm would come to the work!” But woe unto those who, because of their dissentions, will have delayed the time of the harvest, for the storm will come and they will be swept away in the upheaval! They will cry, “Have mercy! Have mercy!” But the Lord will say to them, “Why do you ask for mercy, you who did not show mercy to your brothers and sisters; who refused to offer them a hand; who trampled the weak instead of upholding them? Why do you ask for mercy, you who sought your recompense in the delights of the earth and in the satisfaction of your pride? You have already received your recompense, such as you wanted it. Ask for nothing more. The recompenses of heaven are for those who did not ask for the recompenses of earth.”

At this moment, God is taking a census of his faithful servants and is taking note of those who only have the appearance of devotion so that they may not usurp the wages of the courageous servants, because it is for those who do not recoil before their tasks that God will entrust the most difficult positions in the great work of regeneration through Spiritism. And these words will be fulfilled: “The first will be last and the last will be first in the kingdom of heaven.”

The Spirit of Truth (Paris, 1862)