The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . ecked mar-iners to a rock in the midst of dashing billows. Asthe pious Faber has sung : To angels eyesThis Rock its shadow multiplies,And at this hour in countless places lies. One Rock, one shade Oer thousands laid—Rest in the Shadow of this Rock! In the Shadow of this RockAbide! Abide!Ages are laid beneath its shade. Mid skies storm-rivenIt gathers shadows out of heaven,And holds them oer us all night, cool and even. Through the charmed air Dew falls
The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . ecked mar-iners to a rock in the midst of dashing billows. Asthe pious Faber has sung : To angels eyesThis Rock its shadow multiplies,And at this hour in countless places lies. One Rock, one shade Oer thousands laid—Rest in the Shadow of this Rock! In the Shadow of this RockAbide! Abide!Ages are laid beneath its shade. Mid skies storm-rivenIt gathers shadows out of heaven,And holds them oer us all night, cool and even. Through the charmed air Dew falls not there—Rest in the Shadow of this Rock! INVISIBILITY OF GOD AND HEAVEN. 659 INVISIBILITY OF GOD AND HE A VEN. Theres a land far away mid the stars, we are told,Where they know not the sorrows of time, Where the sweet waters wander through valleys of gold,And life is a treasure sublime. Tis the land of our God, tis the home of the soul, Where rivers of pleasure unceasingly roll, And the way-worn traveler reaches his goalOn the Eversrreen Mountains of Life. SjANY years ago, Prof. Austin Phelps ofAndover, Mass.,.in a little work en-. titled The Still Hour, wrote : Oneof the most impressive mysteries ofthe condition of man on this earth, ishis deprivation of all visible and audible representa-tions of God. Christians seem to be living in a stateof seclusion from the rest of the universe, and fromthat peculiar presence of God in which angels dwell,and in which departed saints serve him day andnight. We do not see him in the fire ; we do nothear him in the wind; we do not feel him in thedarkness. Now, we think it can be satisfactorily shown thatthis condition of invisibility with regard to God andheaven is no impressive mystery at all, but simplya divinely-ordained fact established for the best and 66o HEAVENLY THINGS. wisest of purposes. Such language as the above ismore redolent of the spirit of the Old Testamentthan of the New. There are many passages in theOld Testament w
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