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Excerpt from Our Spiritual Skies
On a day in autumn I saw a prairie eagle mortally hurt by a rifle shot. His eye still gleamed like a circle of light. Then he slowly turned his head and gave one more searching and longing look at the sky. He had Often swept those starry spaces with his wonderful wings. The beautiful sky was the high home Of his heart. It was the eagle's domain. A thousand times he had exploited there his splendid strength. In those far-away heights he had played with the lightnings and raced with the winds. And now, so far away from home, the eagle lay dying, done to the death, because for once he forgot and flew too low. The soul is that eagle. This is not its home. It must not lose the Skyward look. We must keep faith, we must keep hope, we must keep courage, we must keep Christ. We would better creep away from the battlefield at once if we are not going to be brave. The ramparts of a thousand wrongs are falling this is no time for the soul to stampede. God's uncounted chariots Of fire are sweeping down the skies. Keep the skyward look, my soul; keep the skyward look. In these pages I have sought to touch the deeper movements of life and experience in such a way as to show that their supreme significance is spiritual. I have tried to light my torch at the fires Of Life, Literature, and the Holy Scriptures. If these essays help some traveler to find his way among the tangled thickets Of the dark, if they shed some light on his Spiritual Skies, I shall be greatly glad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.