Both the unseen and the seen;
Make the house where gods may dwell
Beautiful, entire, and clean.”
And yet, as I before intimated, all this was done so modestly that, of the many who had intercourse with him, few clearly perceived that there was moving among them a genuine artist in human living.
You who have lived near the shore have sometimes looked toward the sea when, its grandeur veiled by a mist from its own bosom, it lay all day vague and insignificant. But at evening, the rays of heaven rent the clouds, and revealed snowy sails and silvery smoke-wreaths and bright flags; and you knew that all day the veiled ocean had been bearing on its strong, steady billows—pulsating as though the great heart of God were in its bosom—ships from all shores, opulent with the best products of all climes.
There are human lives thus dim and vague. But at evening the veil is parted, and we know that through all the unglorified day, purposes, rich with the finest results of all civilization, have been upborne by pulses so strong and holy that we deem them throbbing with the life of God.
THE END.