THROUGH LIBRARY WINDOWS 59 



visions and vistas, leading one into the very 

 presence of the Infinite Beauty ! 



If you get simple beauty from Nature and 

 life, and naught else, you get about the best 

 thing God invents and invests. Beauty is His 

 patent. His trademark, and it is indelibly 

 stamped on every part of this world and all 

 iworlds. It is His sign-manual and reveals His 

 thought and heart. All artists must sit at 

 His feet, must copy his picturings, must study 

 His colorings, must absorb His spirit, so lavish 

 with endless beauty. I sometimes think and 

 feel that God's universe is an infinite gallery 

 full even to overflow of painstaking pictures, 

 ranging from the infinitely small to the infinite- 

 ly great, colored to perfection, glowing in light, 

 revealing to mortals the genius touch of an un- 

 approached and unapproachable Artist. 



Over yonder in the corner is our spruce tree, 

 the Colorado Blue Spruce. Its color is a light 

 sage-green, carrying a delicately bluish tone, a 

 perfect conical figure, and with its long brown 

 cones strikingly ornamental, it is the fullest of 

 changing beauty of any tree or shrub about us. 

 Its gift is to weave about itself an atmosphere 

 of variable beauty and so differentiate itself 

 from all other trees, a sort of an aristocrat. 

 IThis tree has a peculiar charm for me. I 



