Show heart to heart talk SILENT ELOQUENCE A calm summer day overhead the great sun beams with kingly beneficence the forest stands with glorious summits point pointing ling heavenward the grass studded here and there with wild flowers smiles its silent ellent approval of everything above and around A delicate perfume permeates the already sweet atmosphere SU ence silence allence everywhere eloquent beyond expression it Is the teaching ot of nature mature even the unlettered may comprehend to fullness no lexicon Is needed to point out hidden philosophies lesl 1 no dictionary to detail mysterious or perplexing orthography only the seeing eye la is required to be able to grasp the grandest of forensic flights nature pleading its cause A calm summer evening the moon blushing at first rises in her flight to become magnificent in her bewitching beauty listening earth hears through the majestic silence the nocturne the symphony the cathedral chimes the music of the spheres the hand that made us Is divine sing the stars sable night sweeps over all the world has gone to rest it Is all so eloquently convincing this silent oratory this concerto it proclaims with the creation its great creator close the printed tome with its hieroglyphics that fade with the years gaze on the eternal scroll of earth and heaven and read the wisdom ot of the most high whose silent eloquence resounds through the ages from the beginning to the end of tune it Is all so trueso true so beautiful doubt and deviation have no place nor part here in presence of the absolute I 1 need no lexicon to counsel me but upon the stained pago page of this life of mine I 1 may write truthfully all AH hall the infinite of which I 1 am offspring here I 1 pledge my fideldy to all that la Is grand and inspiring while I 1 drink 1 in the silent eloquence of heaven and earth that show hla his handiwork with undeviating ceaseless fidelity I 1 |