CHAPTER XIX. 



SOUL WINDOWS. 



The windows of our houses are valuable not 

 merely for light and air which they admit, but 

 for the views they command. It often happens 

 that the outlook from some well-planned win- 

 dow is the choicest spot in the house. The loca- 

 tion is admirable, but this particular window is 

 the household gem, the pet place for rest and 

 refreshment. A window which takes in some 

 fine sweep of vision afield, or some splendid 

 mountain view! or some outlook on the mighty 

 restless sea, or opens at eventide wide vistas of 

 the heavens ; such windows are fortunes and in- 

 spirations indeed. Charming pictures and fasci- 

 nating dreams are always possible sitting 

 here. Surely earth's fever dies out of the blood 

 in such hours of vision and meditation. Here 

 the struggles of life seem so useless, its per- 

 plexing issues so insignificant, its ambitions so 

 puerile, its achievements so unsatisfactory. 

 These conclusions come not alone because the 

 eye looked out of the house window, but be- 

 cause the soul looked out of its windows into 

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