The Book for All:
ITS UNIVERSAL GOOD.
Ye have not sowed in vain!
Though the heavens seem as brass,
And, piercing the crust of the burning plain,
Ye scan not a blade of grass.
Yet there is life within,
And waters of life on high:
One morn ye shall wake, and the spring's soft green
O'er the moistened fields shall lie.
Tears in the dull, cold eye,
Light on the darkened brow,
The smile of peace or the prayerful sigh,
Where the mocking smile sits now.
Went ye not forth with prayer?
Then ye went not forth in vain:
"The Sower, the Son of Man," was there,
And His was that precious grain.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHRISTIAN RESPONSIBILITY—FAITH—THE MACHINERY MAN—MAN'S INNER WORLD—SIN REPROVED—CONVERSE UPON AN OMNIBUS—THE INFLUENCE OF TRUTH—THE BIBLE ONLY—COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHED—BROUGHT NIGH, VERY NIGH.