wanted to build tabernacles and stay forever in such a heaven, but He led them back to common levels of life, where men were struggling with pain and sorrow, teaching them that the way to help the social distresses is by faith and prayer, and turned His own back on that picturesque, romantic retreat and went back to the dusty roads and the scorn of Jerusalem and the snarling scribes and scowling priests, treading straight to Gethsemane and to Calvary, content because He knew He was right, and that the world needed Him, and that His Heavenly Father willed it, and that after many days He would Himself see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied. So let us care not too much for ease, but be willing after rest to go to hard, honest work for the Church of God. Be true to your own experience. Let the world and especially let Simon see that your whole life makes good the poet's words: "I heard the voice of Jesus say I am this dark world's light; I looked to Jesus, and I found In Him my star, my sun; Till traveling days are done." IV "SEEN AND UNSEEN" Preached in St. Mark's Church, Brooklyn. "We look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." 2 Cor. IV:18. There are two worlds, a temporal and an eternal, a material and a spiritual, and the Christian looks not at that which is around him, but at that which is beyond him and invisible. If we be faithful to Christ we are concerning ourselves not with the things we see-houses, business, clothes, furniture, but with things not less real, but hidden from view. Let thought here endeavor to penetrate below the surface. What are the visible things that faith sees not? Certainly there is a real world to which we cannot close our eyes. We look out on Nature, the supreme tangible, visible evidence of the Creator's power, glory— |