Letter VII.--"Thy kingdom come:"--not an allusion to the second coming

of the Son, which we cannot hasten, but to the coming of the kingdom of God the Father, which we can. This is again illustrated by the "Crown of Wild Olive" (I daresay it is by others of Ruskin's books, but it is convenient to refer chiefly to one, and that the one which contains what he calls his most biblical lecture), p. 56: "Observe it is a kingdom that is to come to us; we are not to go to it. Also it is not to be a kingdom of the dead, but of the living. Also it is not to come all at once, but quietly ... without observation. _Also it is not to come outside of us, but in our hearts: 'the kingdom of God is within you.'_" This is the sense in which we can hasten _it_.