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The Life Beautiful

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 16, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 20.

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The Life Beautiful

By W. F. Sheridan, D. D.

THE Cologne Cathedral was halted in its erection by the death of the architect and the loss of his plan. No architect seemed able to grasp the complex greatness of the structure sufficiently to carry it to completion. So there it stood for centuries, an unfinished pile of stone and marble, pathetic in its aspiring incompleteness. But the lost plan was recovered. And with joy the work of completion was undertaken and carried forward until the forest of spires stood silhouetted against the sky, and the last statue had found its destined niche—a majestic poem in marble. We are being created an habitation of God through the Eternal Spirit. But why does the building halt? Why rise not the lofty towers and soaring spires? Have we lost the plan, the key to the goodly harmony? The love of God, shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit, the personal possession of every believer,—this is the key to the plan by which the universal church of Jesus groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.—W. F. Sheridan, D. D.