The Stand, Part III: The Betrayal

[Mother Abagail's last (living) words.]

Mother Abagail:
You… your four men… are to go west… to take no food or water, but to go this very day in the clothes you now wear. You are to go on foot. I'm in the way of knowin' one will fall by the way, but I don't know which it will be. I'm in the way of knowin' the others will be taken before this Flagg, who isn't a man, but a creature from beyond the world. I don't know… if you will defeat him. I only know… God wants you to go, and with God's help, you will stand, and be true.

Frannie Goldsmith:
And what if we say no?!

Stu Redman:
Frannie, come on-

Frannie Goldsmith:
What?!

Stu Redman:
Come on, shhh.

Mother Abagail:
Your will is as free as that of Eve in the Garden, child. "Go where ye list" has always been God's way, but… this is what God wants of you. Be true! Stand.