We were but specks on the great landscape. But God was
above it all, penetrating it and us with his infinite warmth.
The distance from human beings made the Invisible One seem so
near! Only Nature and ourselves now, face to face with Him!
We could scarcely have found in all the world a more complete
contrast to the moving crowds and the whir and dust of the City
of Spindles, than this unpeopled, silent prairie.
For myself, I know that I was sent in upon my own thoughts deeper
than I had ever been before. I began to question things which I
had never before doubted. I must have reality. Nothing but
transparent truth would bear the test of this great, solitary
stillness. As the prairies lay open to the sunshine, my heart
seemed to lie bare beneath the piercing eye of the All-Seeing. I
may say with gratitude that only some superficial rubbish of
acquired opinion was scorched away by this searching light and
heat. The faith of my childhood, in its simplest elements, took
firmer root as it found broader room to grow in.
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