THE DIVINE ADJUSTMENT 



A FOOTPATH led aside from the high- 

 way, and I followed it. It wound 

 through the thicket, and I emerged 

 on a shoulder of the hill which gave a 

 fair and high prospect of the river. 

 I had not supposed that so much 

 could be seen by so slight a change of 

 location. A dozen rods had formed 

 the circle of my view from the high- 

 way. Two minutes' walk gave me 

 an extensive landscape. 



To the traveler along the road of 

 his ambition there are many little 

 altitudes that call aside. 'Tis but a 

 step to them, and yet the outlook is 

 enlarged a hundred fold. There is 

 always this Divine adjustment of 



