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Show I Jugdc Goodwin's Beautiful : 1 Zribuk to Bishop Scanten. Judge Goodwin was invited to the baiKiuet but wrote to Secretary n'Mciira that he could not come, but in his own way told the Secretary that he did not think Jiis absence would be any loss, for If there, and called upon to speak, he might make Bishop Scan-Ian Scan-Ian Mush by saying something like the following: "We all at times are building air castles, though they do not many of them materialize. There is a good Bishop that i know that seems to be a mat ter-or-fact man enough, but I Slinpert h:it he, for., for years, in the vnt rheri of the rilght and under the flashings f the sunbeams by flay, has In thought been building what he Ihoiurlit was uti air castle. "I'.iit thi;: ha:i not been quite like I hone that we wicked ones build. His thought has been not to own this great hoii.'te; rather. It has been that he might be a servant therein only. While he has dreamed of It and prayed for it, still mingled with the prayer have been the words: " 'But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house that I have builded !' "Still the good Bishop justified his prayer, for he said to himself, 'God is merciful and it may be that He will permit that His name be there, and if the house can be high and great and in a little way typify our reverence, the sight of it. the beauty of it, the music that wilt fill its aisles, the j.,. cense that we will burn there and !' pictures and the emblems that we u display there, may turn careless hin .; to questioning, may give careless ey glimpses of that other life beyond Md, life and carry to unsteady souls iu realization that indeed man is onlv little lower than the angels when r 1 1 - -stains upon his soul are erased.' "At last, as if in answer to th-prayer, th-prayer, this house began to grow- uri l-the l-the eyes of the good Bishop, and as begins to take form, he stretches up his eves in thankfulness and above wh--r.. it is to stand there is in the ether ,i confused, Iitrht which seems like tie- - I outline of a broad, heavenly srn:'-- which seems to he increasing in !?!. r and growing more, and more in sym- i metry day by day, and oftener an i I oftener the good Bishop is repeating: . f i 'But will God indeed dwell on ti I earth? Behold the heaven and heav. ., of heavens cannot contain Thee, ho..- j much less this house that I have build- ed.' Rut the outlines of the smilr- a instill in-still in the ether, and they are deepening deep-ening daily. "And when the trust is completed and the good Bishop's life is worn rnr here, we doubt not that as he for th I last time turns his eyes upward, th-smile th-smile will be fully materialized, and in tones sweeter than earthly organ and ' I ' choir there will float down th words, 'Good and faithful servant, enter thou ; into the joy of thy Lord.' "C. C. GOODWIN." |