"Again the mysterious play of mighty cosmic forces arrests his thought.
Everything in the material universe is changing, transient; all is in a
state of flux, of motion, of perpetual disintegration or re-integration.
But there is one thing fixed and abiding--that which we call spirit--and
amid all uncertainty, one truth is certain--that to a loving human soul a
parting which shall be eternal is unthinkable."--_Elizabeth R. Chapman_.
4. STILLNESS. Hallam Tennyson remarks that balloonists say that even in
a storm the middle sea is noiseless. It is the ship that is the cause of
the howling of the wind and the lashing of the storm.