March 4

The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

BY Reason the limits of the finite may be transcended in knowledge, as for the dying saint they are in practice, and men may be certain that, could they comprehend as God comprehends, they should see the Eternal made manifest through the fleeting shadows of time. For there is but one Single Subject within which all knowledge and all reality fall. With and in that Single Subject philosophy and faith alike assure us that we are one. And so when his simple creed, pictorial it may be, but symbolical of the deeper meaning of reality, bids the humblest soul in his greatest and last extremity be assured that his Redeemer liveth, it may be that there has come to him an insight in form only different from that of the profoundest thinker.

RICHARD BURDON HALDANE, The Pathway to Reality

THE HEART SPEAKS

We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him.

WHAT we, when face to face we see The Father of our souls, shall be John tells us, doth not yet appear; Ah, did he tell what we are here!

A mind for thoughts to pass into, A heart for loves to travel through, Five senses to detect things near, Is this the whole that we are here?

O may we for assurance sake Some arbitrary judgment take, And wilfully pronounce it clear, For this or that 'tis we are here?

Or is it right, and will it do, To pace the sad confusion through, And say:—It doth not yet appear What we shall be, what we are here?

Ah yet, when all is thought and said, The heart still overrules the head; Still what we hope we must believe, And what is given us must receive;

Must still believe, for still we hope That in a world of larger scope, What here is painfully begun Will be completed, not undone.

My child, we still must think, when we That ampler life together see, Some true result will yet appear Of what we are, together, here.

+ March Evening


ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

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