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. But 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. 



