300 THROUGH LIBRARY WINDOWS 



the great spiritual realm and sensed its personal 

 bearings and destiny. These soul windows and 

 visions are real. They help determine life's 

 true perspective. 



At these windows have stood the great pro- 

 phets of the race communing with Jehovah and 

 uttering His thoughts. Here also the poets 

 have tarried writing their fiery messages the 

 world will not willingly let die. Out of these 

 "windows as from mountain peaks, heroic souls 

 gazed until life's meanings have been burned 

 into the living consciousness. Life rarely ac- 

 complishes things of great moment that does 

 not stand close up to its soul windows. Some- 

 times the look is out into gathering storms that 

 must be met, into forbidding darkness that 

 must be penetrated; such visions carry 

 convictions and demand sacrifice. Wendell 

 Phillips planned the legal life of the olden 

 type that would afford ease and compe- 

 tence. He had the ability and the means 

 and the relationships, but one day on the 

 mount of vision with God he saw the corrup- 

 tions of political life and the enslaved race 

 and felt his wrongs, and suddenly his life plans 

 changed and a new path opened out into the 

 "whirl of passion, and he fought for a score of 

 years as a hero, and then came the conquest, 



