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and enhances values. Art and light are ever 

 dealing in values and shifting opinions and 

 creating options. Which month sits supremest 

 as queen of the year and governs most indul- 

 gently, no twentieth century committee could 

 decide. Yes, the world in cosmos is at our 

 door, we feel the fullness of its beauty and over- 

 flow. So many sense only what is congenial 

 and agreeable, and this only in fit seasons. 

 "Eyes have they, but they see not," has a wider 

 significance and application than the old 

 prophet conceived. To him idols were vision- 

 less and powerless, and so are folks who live 

 stolidly in God's world of beauty. 



"There's beauty all around our paths 



If but our watchful eyes 

 Could trace if mid familiar things 



And through their lowly guise." 



Beauty is ever present and vital in Nature. 

 It is God's tender thought for the race. It 

 voices in tones that impress and awaken keen- 

 est interest. The essence of beauty is felt in 

 the pleasure it incites. Man was made for 

 beauty as the eye for light. Keats, in that 

 matchless idyl, "Endymion," has voiced an im- 

 mortal line — 



"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." 



