The disciples were filled with great joy. Over and over
again they repeated the words Christ had spoken to them
in His last lessons, as recorded in the fourteenth, fifteenth,
sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of John; and every one
had something to say about the instruction, especially with
regard to the words of the fourteenth of John ...
The promise that He would come again, and also the
thought that He had left them His peace, filled their hearts
with joy.—Letter 55, 1886 quoted in The Upward Look, 357.
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