sliding from their thrones, and the deposits of humble
faithfulness rising from the deep of ages. Our sympathy, our
benevolent effort in the work of God and humanity, how much
do they need not only the vision of intellectual foresight,
but of the faith which, on bended knees, sees further than
the telescope!

And alas! for him who, in his personal need and effort, has
no margin of holier inspiration --no rim of divine splendor -
-around his daily life! Without the vision of life's great
realities we cannot see what our work is, or know how to do
it.

But such visions must be necessarily rare and transient, or
we shall miss their genuine efficacy. We must work in
comparative shadow, without the immediate sight of these
realities; and only in the place of our rest, -- rest for
higher efforts and a new career, --only there may we have
their constant companionship, and build their perpetual
tabernacles.




THE SHADOW OF DISAPPOINTMENT.

But we trusted that it had been he which should have
redeemed Israel. LUKE xxiv. 21.