A Chink-Stone in God’s Temple
By Foster
A MAN dreamed that he was trying to build for himself a temple to commemorate his name. He wanted a whole temple to himself, and an angel came to show him one that was a model of beauty. But there was one stone missing from its peak, and the man asked the angel where it was. "There has never been one there," replied the angel. "We intended to place you there, but you say you want a whole temple to yourself, and so the place will be filled by some one else. But you will never have your special temple." Then the man, roused by his fears, started up from his sleep crying, "O God put me in your temple. Put me in, even though I can be but a chink-stone; put me in."—Foster.