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Beaut}' liiis a missiou. God might liave made apples of the 

 color of cobltk'stones aud given the strawberry and cherry 

 the drab of gravel instead of those appetizing tints which are 

 the despair of the artist. 



On earth there is beauty everywhere, from the prodigal 

 blooms of the tropics to the vast profusion of flowers in the 

 frozen tundras of the north. 



THE PROPHECY OF CLORY. 



This A\orld is only the porch of another. Flowers and gems 

 are the prophec}' of the glory to be revealed. How superbly 

 the great landscape artist laid out this world of ours. \Vhat 

 a land He gave us before it ^>'as marred by the greed of men. 

 Did you ever think that this same Artist who laid out this 

 earth along the lines of harmony and beauty also has land- 

 scaped the universe? Allien you get through your schooling 

 down here and have faithfully proclaimed the great evangel 

 of beautv ; when vou have passed awav vou will leave a path 

 lined with radiant forms of loveliness. It will be said of you, 

 ''He passed this way and these are his footprints." 



Then you are to stand as victor under that arch on which is 

 written, "All things are yours." There you are to receive the 

 salutations of the universe and the eternal beauty is yours. 

 As the land of promise rose in wondrous mirage to the vision 

 of Moses on Tabor, so will the broad fields of light rise to 

 \o\\v gaze and behold the universe itself is one gTeat flower 

 garden. AMio can describe the clustered glories, the harmo- 

 nious mingling of colors of the milky Avay sown thick with 

 immortelles? How amazing the vastness! Tremendous 

 abysses of distance illumined by the smile of Jehovah. He 

 drove his plowshare through the fields of azure and all the 

 furrows w(Te flowered with stars, Orion and Pleiades, great 

 bouquets held in the hand of the Creator. The constellation 

 gardens of surpassing splendor. 



So remember that the beauty of earth is a prophecy of that 

 opal sea, jeweled walls, and the great gardens of God. Let 



