. The gate beautiful. ^ettice ©ccltnet) Somewhere, in a nook forlorn,Yesterday a babe was born:He shall do thy waiting task ;All thy questions he shall ask,And the answers will be givenjWhispered lightly out of heaven. Tis enough of joy for theeHis high purpose to foresee. Sitting in our house of cedar, with mai*velousgoodness filHng all our life, let us look outand see the needs of Gods work about us. Letus think of the many things which wait forloving hearts and willing hands and promiseGod our best, all we can do. Let him choosewhat he would have us do, and because ourparticular dream of se
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. The gate beautiful. ^ettice ©ccltnet) Somewhere, in a nook forlorn, Yesterday a babe was born:He shall do thy waiting task ;All thy questions he shall ask, And the answers will be givenjWhispered lightly out of heaven. Tis enough of joy for theeHis high purpose to foresee. Sitting in our house of cedar, with mai*velousgoodness filHng all our life, let us look outand see the needs of Gods work about us. Letus think of the many things which wait forloving hearts and willing hands and promiseGod our best, all we can do. Let him choosewhat he would have us do, and because ourparticular dream of service is decHned, let usnot fold our hands and close our heart—rather let us pour out our Hfe in the workthe Master sets for us to do. 199] i^oiaj Can Wt ISnoto ? [201] / find enough good people in the world to make methink God is good, though a few years ago there was aperiod in my life when I wondered if God had not for-gotten me, or if he was just.—Private Letter. [202] CHAPTER FIFTEENTH I^DtD Can Wt JfenotD?. ESUS had just said, If yehad known me, ye wouldhave known my Fatheralso: from henceforth yehave known him, and haveseen him. The words be-wildered Philip. He could not understandthem. Ye have seen the Father, Jesushad said. That was just what Philip waslonging for—to see the Father. So he in-terrupted the Master, saying, Lord, showus the Father. He wished that Jesus mightmake the mystery plainer.There are many sincere Christians who havethe same desire that Philip expressed. Theylong for clearer, fuller revealing of God. Awriter in a religious paper tells of two girlswalking home from their work one evening, talking earnestly together. One of them wasoverheard saying to the other, Yes, but[203] Cl^e (Bate Beautiful why has no one ever seen God? This wasall the gentleman heard, as he stood waitingfor his car, but even this single sentenceshowed what had been the burden of the con-versation. Evidently the girls had been talk-ing about the apparent unreality of spir