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It is ill to waste breath in wondering how the creature got into this long-closed place or how it lived. But when I have told of this, many a time have I heard stories of toads that have been found in stranger places even in solid-seeming rock. But however it came there and one may think of many ways it scared us. It seemed a thing not natural.
The boot is on the other leg. It is the idealists that are awake, and it is you people that live for to-day, and have not learned that to-day is a little fragment and sliver of eternity it is you who are dreamers, and all these things round about us the solid-seeming realities are illusions, and 'Like the bubbles on a river, Sparkling, bursting, borne away, they will disappear.
In this part of the 'Sermon' our Lord twice uses the phrase, 'I say unto you, which He once introduces with His characteristic 'verily. Once He employs it to give solemnity to the asseveration which stretches forward to the end of this solid-seeming world, and once He introduces by it the stringent demand for His followers' loftier righteousness.
There was naturally something that seemed extra-human in the mysterious force which was capable of bidding the present-day world vanish like a shadow into either the future or the past, its solid-seeming substance melt away like "the airy fabric of a vision," and summon in an instant, too brief to be measured, the past from the grave where it lay buried beneath the dust of uncounted ages, or the future from the womb of unborn things.
That will not paralyse effort nor abate sweetness, but it will teach proportion, and deliver from the illusions of this solid-seeming shadow which we call life. The pensive retrospect darkens as the old man's memory dwells upon the past. His days have not only been few that could be borne but they have been 'evil' by which I understand not unfortunate so much as faulty.
Why, I wouldn't care if the whole world thought you were this or that or anything else. You're my well, you're my soul!" He was an undefined mass, as solid-seeming as rock. She found his sleeve, pinched it, cried, "I'm glad! It's sweet to be wanted! You must tolerate my frivolousness. You're all I have!"
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