ON SEEING 
” WOULD teverently add to the list of the 
on 
, to see.”” From my heart I bless such men and 
“7 women. All the good must pray to God, 
7 «Help us to see.” The pity of this world is 
| : y not its limitations, but ours. Into the earth as 
into a king's golden goblet, God has poured all 
' things which minister to an immortal and growing 
life. He has made a world pregnant with ideas. Vistas 
open as through a sunrise world to wide meadow lands beyond, where 
are sunshine and flowers and birds swaying in the tall grasses and sing- 
ing as they sway and flute notes of singing waters and odors of damp 
sod and blooming flowers, and a meadow lark's dulcet note and swaying 
shadows of the woods when rocked by south winds and 
billowy motion of the grass like some emerald sea with \ 
tide setting to shore. We are always on the way to 
God's open as we are always on our way to God if we , 
would have it so. Nothing of God's perishes, but 
endures. We have not gotten to the end, seeing 
God is forever holding something back. We 
can not bankrupt his opportunities nor provi- 
dences nor knowledge nor joy; and how good 
that is! Life is as a book whose best pages 
are as yet uncut, and a growing interest holds 
us, filling the mind as a flood tide the sinuous 
shore line 
Who knows what is hid under the open 
sky? Some birds build their nest in plain 
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