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: song of accompaniment to the organ-music of heaven, Theophilus fashioned this strain :— I saw a cloud Passing the moon; It brighten'd and it darken'd, And vanish"d soon. It came on my sight From the southern heaven; By one wind into light And into darkness driven. Dimly from the deep It uprose on high; Then it shone far and wide, Then it melted in the sky. Thus it is that man Comes to wisdom's noon; Brightening as this cloud, He vanishes as soon. His beauty is upon him While light is given; Swiftly forward is he speeded By the breath of heaven. From darkness of the deep He comes forth on high; Then in silence he departs— But it is into the sky. It was at another season of the year that Theophilus wrote the Thoughts and the Hymn that follow :— NATURE. Nature being a book which God has written out of his heart, contains deep things of his heart. The better reader it has, and the more he ponders it, the more does it teach him and the more does it move him. The teaching and the moving are distinguishable, though more and more will they be at one, mutually helpful. The love of God dwelleth with the mind of God; they are eternally distinct, yet eternally co-inherent. And in man the gradually completing, and but now, as it were, sketched or roughly moulded image of God; feeling and thought, not alone distinct, but often now opposed, are more and more to be manifested in unity. Nature is the work of God in the fulness of his being. Creation was heart-work, and not alone mind-work— and so there is in the things and appearances of the world, their order and variousness—adaptation to the spirit of man. As heart answers to heart, so surely answers the heart of man, beholding the world, to the heart of God who made it. But it...