1 64 LODGES IN THE WILDERNESS 



tunity to collate experience and appraise its 

 results, — surely that is necessary to balanced 

 thought, — towards being able to see things in 

 their true proportions. BuJ so-called progress 

 has killed leisure. 



Where, to-day, is the voice of Truth to be 

 heard? Not in the frantic and contradictory 

 shoutings of the forum or the market place, 

 nor in the groans of those doomed to unre- 

 quited and unleisured toil, — but I think that 

 an attentive ear may sometimes hear her voice 

 whispering in the wilderness. And this I 

 know : that when a spent and wounded soul 

 steals out and sinks humbly at the feet of Soli- 

 tude, some kind and bountiful hand holds out 

 to it the cup of Peace,— and often the pearl of 

 Wisdom is dissolved in that cup for the spirit's 

 refreshment. 



