His eye will soon see nothing, the vision of ing."is content to repeat daily the prayer "Thy will the done in earth," and fails to translate the prayer into action, The heavenly vision is meant for more than a comfort or a rich experience: it is a design to which we must work, a revelation of posities which we must develop, of opportunity which we must embrace.
It is given'to lead us on: and it will become clearer as we pursue the path along which it shines. We must "follow the gleam" or we shall lose it. "Where there is no vision the people perish:" and that because where there the man perishes. The individual shrinks into dwarfed and. ignoble life. Nay more than that. Note how the Revised Version renders this passage. "Where there is no vision the people east off restraint Heedless of higher things, of spirit tual and eternal things, they are led. They give the rein to Passion and sense, and rush downward to The Upward Look It is only the uplifted look and the heavenly vision seen which will arrest this downward course.
The results of lack or loss of vision are seen in the shrivelled souls of so many men and women ti-day. Souls become well nigh leapable. of inspiration by a great ideal: souls engrossed in self and sense and earthliness: souls with, never a high purpose.
God in His mercy show us the! vanity of these things wherewith jwe have been content: shame us by the sight of "the littleness of our ives, inspire us with lofty purpose land strengthen us to persist in it; thet to us may come and with fne may stay. the Vision splendid, Following: witch, through "whateos lever trials, our hearts may be glad fhecause We know that what is ow bot the vision' of faith' will at length "become the realization of sight.
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