October 9
Companions of the Way (Evening)The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
SUCH men as Buddha, Socrates, and Luther, whose manhood and age are the fulfilment of an idea conceived in youth, and who treat their whole life, and even it may be their death, as the clay in which the moral work of art is realised, can be seen truly only when faithfulness unto death has given, as it were, the last touch to their work. In such a consistent course of life what strikes us most is not this or that ray of excellence, nor even the completed course of progress, but rather the path of life which is traversed is to us as the path of a star to the astronomer, which enables him to prophesy its future course. Such men seem still to grow beyond the end which hides them from our eyes.
EDWARD CAIRD
THE TOUCHSTONE