When the wild crabapple puts forth blossoms, Nature sermons presched, , Ill . art gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heartDeeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given,And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,In the long way that I must tread alone,Will lead my steps aright. Job is looking beyond the vultures flightfrom mountain to valley, away to the soulsflight from the celestial mountain to theisland-valley of Avilion, where falls not hail,or rain, or any snow; looking beyond the flightacro
When the wild crabapple puts forth blossoms, Nature sermons presched, , Ill . art gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heartDeeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given,And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,In the long way that I must tread alone,Will lead my steps aright. Job is looking beyond the vultures flightfrom mountain to valley, away to the soulsflight from the celestial mountain to theisland-valley of Avilion, where falls not hail,or rain, or any snow; looking beyond the flightacross the continent to the flight across theheavens to the realm of perfect day; looking be-yond the flight of bird fleeing from storm andcold to the flight of man fleeing from storm andpain and sorrow and crying, away from theflight of bird that lasts but a few days to theflight of the soul out toward the eternities, away212 i PATHFINDERS from the paths along which flesh follows to thepaths along which the spirit of man journeysor may journey. We are looking now not at the paths along. ; WHITHER DOST THOU PURSUE THY SOLITARYWAY? which Gods creatures walk, but at the pathalong which God walks. God is a Spirit, andthey that worship Him must worship Him inspirit and in truth; God walks in a spiritual path,and they that walk with Him must walk in the213 PATHFINDERS spiritual way. There is a path that is notbuilded of rock and clay, of atom and ether,or measured by time and terminating in is a spiritual path along which Godwalks, builded of righteousness and holiness, ofjustice and mercy, of tenderness and pity, ofcompassion and love. This highway begins ineternity and ends in eternity. There are noclocks along the way, with doleful ticking toalarm us with the thought that life is this way it is always morning, and we arealways facing the noon of the day; there are noalmanacs to tell us that summer is past and thechilling blasts of winter will soon be upon us
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