Nor was he without those
moments of communion when the creature is lifted into the secret
place of the Creator.
Looking back to the time when it seemed that he cried and was not
heard, he saw that God had been hearing, had been answering, all the
time; had been making him capable of receiving the gift for which he
prayed. He saw that intellectual difficulty encompassing the
highest operations of harmonizing truth, can no more affect their
reality than the dulness of chaos disprove the motions of the wind
of God over the face of its waters. He saw that any true revelation
must come out of the unknown in God through the unknown in man. He
saw that its truths must rise in the man as powers of life, and that
only as that life grows and unfolds can the ever-lagging intellect
gain glimpses of partial outlines fading away into the
infinite--that, indeed, only in material things and the laws that
belong to them, are outlines possible--even there, only in the
picture of them which the mind that analyzes them makes for itself,
not in the things themselves.
At the close of these four years, with his spirit calm and hopeful,
truth his passion, and music, which again he had resumed and
diligently cultivated, his pleasure, Falconer returned to Aberdeen.
He was received by Dr. Anderson as if he had in truth been his own
son. In the room stood a tall figure, with its back towards them,
pocketing its handkerchief. The next moment the figure turned,
and--could it be?--yes, it was Shargar.
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