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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTO THE LIGHT Let us choose to us judgment; let us know among ourselves what is good. ? Job xxxiv-4. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. ? Psalms xix-2. What dost thou see when without thee thou lookest, O all- searching Man? Life, ever life, amid changes by multiplex rhythms controlled ? Rhythms that throb without end in immensity's vastness of space, Mingling and blending in chorus which sings of the Order Divine. What dost thou see when within thee thou lookest, O all- searching Man? Thee as a spirit and atom of all the mysterious whole; Giving as well as receiving, bound to the infinite past, Made by and making thy future that stretches eternally on. And now, dear friend, weary and sick at heart With what thou hast been and with what thou art, Come, let us sit beneath this centuried pine, Where Nature's self may heal thee of thy smart. For here there broods such feeling of repose, Such soothing quiet all around us flows, That for the blessed time life seems to hush Its doubtful triumphs and its certain woes. Ah, well-a-day, what heart has not its pains, Its grievous losses, incommensurate gains, And as result of all the strenuous strife, What little profit at the last remains By thoughts like these we are at times oppressed; But who the loss or profit can attest? Our glass we see through darkly, and full oft What seemed the worst was in the end the best.V In these unclouded heavens no stars we see, Yet all roll there in sovran majesty; So, when thy sky seems reft of every star, In quenchless light they still may live for thee. . . . The bubbles dancing on convivial wine, The restful dewdrops on the procreant vine, But symbolize each being life has known: All vanish at a breath and leave...