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THE BEAUTIFUL LADDER. 
esty of God seen therein: ‘ Every time you go 
forth under the open sky, be it cerulean or be 
it overcast, let it be to you an eternal beckoner 
upward. ... In yon measureless, ever-receding 
dome you will ever find a limitless, an exhila¬ 
rating arena for all that in you is most noble 
and stout and true and Godward. Every time, 
then, that you go forth under heaven’s arch 
accept the sky as life’s real meaning. On its 
azure, ever-lifting, infinite vault evermore read 
the sun-emblazoned legend, Excelsior.’ Yes, 
that is the sublime lesson—higher, ever higher; 
craving, ever craving, as the cry still goes up 
to the throne of All Goodness, ‘ I shall be sat¬ 
isfied when I awake with thy likeness.” 
‘ Oh, glorious hour! oh, blest abode ! 
I shall be near and like my God, 
And every power find sweet employ 
In that eternal world of joy.’ 
“ Though still for a season the Eternal Father 
must be contemplated as enfolded in his ineffa¬ 
ble glory, unapproachable and impenetrable, in 
the ever-present Shekinah which has illuminated 
all our upward soaring our eyes have seen the 
glory of the Lord. So ravishing has been the 
