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represented some outlook into the outdoor 

 world of light and life, some window open or 

 door ajar giving a sense of outdoor atmosphere 

 and freedom. How marked the old Dutch 

 interiors in this regard. 



What this world needs most to-day is not 

 more commerce and larger navies and heavier 

 guns, but more men and women with open soul 

 windows outlooking on God and the possibili- 

 ties of human life. This is the age of the spir- 

 itual and God is coming closer to human souls 

 for self-revelation. Does not truth shine forth 

 with increasing brilliance, are not the voices 

 strangely commingling, is not knowledge in- 

 creasing marvelously, is there not a growing 

 heart-hunger for better living, are not old 

 creeds breaking up, is not the Christ attracting 

 men as never before ? The age is evolutionary, 

 and we must take higher vantage ground. You 

 can tell from a man's walk whether he has a 

 princely purpose, from his habits of thought 

 whether he has the upward look. This is not a 

 world of finalities but of beginnings. Growth 

 is our heritage, before it horizons lift and zen- 

 iths blaze in sunlit beauty. Achievements run 

 on forever and solve in part the mysteries of 

 early deaths and unfortunate lives; — God's 

 plans are endless. 



