'grace' means the sum of the felicities [happiness] of a future life. that is clear from two considerations — that this grace is the object of our hope all through life, which only an object beyond the grave can be, and also that its advent is contemporaneous with the revelation of jesus christ. the expression, though unusual, is valuable because it brings out two things. it reminds us that whatever of blessedness we may possess in the future it is all a gratuitous, unmerited gift of that loving god to whom we owe everything."