His eyes will be turned away from beholding vanity.
His soul will be kept from vexation of spirit. In God's tabernacle,
which is the universe of all the worlds, he will be kept from the
strife of tongues. As he watches the work of God's Spirit, the
beauty of God's Spirit, the wisdom of God's Spirit, the fruitfulness
of God's Spirit, which shines forth in every wayside flower, and
every gnat which dances in the sun, he will rejoice in God's work,
even as God himself rejoices. He will learn to value things at their
true price, and see things of their real size. Ambition, fame,
money, will seem small things to him as he considers the lilies of
the field, how the heavenly Father clothes them, and the birds of the
air, how the heavenly Father feeds them; and he will say with the
wise man -
'All the windy ways of men
Are but dust that rises up,
And is lightly laid again.'
Dust, indeed, and not worthy the attention of the wise man, who
considers how the very heaven and earth shall perish, and yet God
endure; how--'They all shall wax old as doth a garment, and as a
vesture shall God change them, and they shall be changed: but God is
the same, and his years shall not fail.'
And as that man grows more quiet, he will grow more loving likewise;
more merciful to the very dumb animals.
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