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64 A VISION. tracted to grasp ; on the other by a minute perfection our senses are too coarse to follow. Wonderful, thought I to myself, that there should be any one living who can look on these things and not admire; or admiring, rest in admiration, and not go on to adore "All Thy works praise Thee, O Lord, and Thy Saints give thanks unto Thee." But by this time the bells were ringing loudly in my ears, and I hurried on. Yet with a desperate sigh; for I had not ceased to think. And now, as I walked forward, I went on thinking still. Thinking with pain of the contrast between that inanimate creation and the animate life of which I was conscious in myself. Perfection there--such imperfection here Peace in the one-discord in the other; and this not in my individual case only, but in that of all the "animate nature of the world: the discord greater and more difficult of solution (in the musical sense of restoration to harmony) the higher the scale of life: in the human race most difficult of all! But for the written word of Revelation, in fact, there