The Son of God asks of Saint Bride and says: 'Daughter, how stands the world now?' She answered: 'It stands as an open sack to whom all run, and as a man running who does not heed what will happen'.

Then said our Lord: 'Therefore it is just that I go with my plough upon all the earth and world, both heathen and Christian. I shall neither spare the old nor the young, neither the poor nor the rich. But each shall be judged according to justice and each shall die in his sin; and their houses shall be left without inhabitants; and yet I shall not make an end of the world'.

Saint Bride said: 'O Lord, do not be displeased though I speak. Send some of your friends to warn them and admonish them beforehand of their peril'.

Our Lord answered: 'It is written that the rich man in Hell, despairing of his own health, asked that one might be sent to warn his brothers so that they would not perish in the same way. And it was answered to him, "That shall not be, for they have Moses and the Prophets, by whom they may be taught". So I say to you: They have the Gospel and sayings of Prophets; they have parables and the writings of the Church Fathers; they have reason and understanding. If they use these they shall be saved. For if I send you, you may not cry loud enough to be heard; and if I send my friends, they are but few; and if they cry, it is not enough for them to be heard. Nevertheless I shall send my friends to those as I approve and they shall prepare a way to God'.