Excerpt from Seeing Darkly
"For now we see through a glass, darkly." - I Cor. xiii: 12.
By way of illustration, a parallel is here run between childhood and manhood, putting the one in apposition to our natural life in this world and the other to typify a higher life, a life to come. This is an apt figure. Manhood is the period of the broadest development of our powers, and hence fitly stands for the immortal vigor and luxuriant pulse of a future and ideal state of being; whereas childhood is a preparatory, unpractised, unripe stage of the human creature, during which he is only getting ready to live, storing up materials for use in succeeding years.
For it has pleased his Maker to lead man - who is yet the master-piece of creative skill, upon the stage of action in an unpromising plight - a child.
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