Excerpt from The Infinite Artist, and Other Sermons
This passage contains a vision of the ideal Zion. The actual Zion, which was steadily going from bad to worse, does not offer an encouraging prospect. Yet this great prophet is not overwhelmed by the bleak realism of existence; he takes refuge in the vast plans and high thoughts of an undiscourageable God. Therefore, he knew that the leaden to-day would vanish before the golden to-morrow. And it is just this indomitable faith that arms him for battle with his besieging, obstinate enemies on every hand. Faith in God alone enables man to face and endure the facts of life. There is no use trying to blink the tragic things away; pain does not pass at some word of legerdemain; sin docs not disappear because, perchance, fools make a mock at sin; death does not stand aside because delusion says that it must. No! The facts of our human life must be faced; and if faced in the strength which Christ alone imparts, they may be transfigured and made to serve the august ends of the soul.
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