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THE BEAUTIFUL LADDER. 
effort has been kindly and earnestly made, and 
I have used all the resources at my command. 
Whether success or failure will mark the close 
of our interviews, it now only remains for me 
to try and fix the beautiful moral lessons of the 
studies which we have been pursuing. Stand¬ 
ing on the altitude reached, it is only left us, as 
most fitting, to erect our altar and lay the sac¬ 
rifice thereon, and worship him whose ‘glory 
is above the earth and the heaven.’ 
“ ‘ God created man in his own image, in the 
image of God created he him.’ This crowning 
act of Jehovah’s creative power has a signif¬ 
icance beyond the stretch of human compre¬ 
hension. The mysteries, possibilities, gifts, and 
graces which were then made a part of man’s 
inheritance have never been fully understood, 
though they have ever been contributing to 
the cup of life’s happiness. Though the outward 
human form may be considered as the master¬ 
piece of heavenly wisdom and skill, yet the per¬ 
fectly moulded clay bore no visible semblance 
to the Almighty Artist. The gifts which made 
man God-like were of a higher order; they were 
not of the earth, earthy, but superlative bene¬ 
dictions from heaven. They quickened the 
