The Washington times., 1919-04-20
VaDOr That Makes Clouds
The laundering Might of Niagara Is In the Filmy
Intangible Phenomenon.

Every life has its bitter moments; years pass they
increase.
James "a servant of God" and inspired in bitter
mood when he told the twelve tribes Yo life is
vapor that appeareth for little time and then vansheh
away
Rusn an earnest noble thinker and writer whose life
became bitter with disappointment said concerning that text
from the fourth chapter of James: I suppose few people
reach the middle or latter period Of their age without having
at some moment of change disappointment felt the truth
of those bitter words and been startled by the fading of the
sunshine from the cloud of their life into the sudden agony
Of the knowledge that the fabric of it fragile as
dream and the endurance of transient the dew.
The Jewish slave in Egypt working under the lash and
the hot sun bemoaned the bitterness of his fate And the
king on his throne with all his power and all his wives
his palaces and gold cried my days like shadow
that declineth and withered like grass and again,
I am poor and lonely and my heart is wounded within
me-"
"I am gone like the shadow when it decineth
The great king of old the man of years and fortune
today he goes out to walk solitary in the sky
in the clouds that drift and in the shadows the grass
reproduction of his own life.
Yesterday they were not tomorrow they will not be,
like clouds and vapor they pass.
On this page is picture of clouds seen through DID,
discouraged eyes. There drifting by the friends,
memories Of the past actually real anything this
earth
One man has tried and failed. His text is Man
waketh in vain shadow and disquieeth himself in vain
Another has succeeded" in the eyes of the world.
You such in this picture he knows that he is
as unreal as the shadow that his body throws upon the
ground he walks unreal the floating clouds that
take strange shapes. cloud, vapor, shadow that
grows longer the goes down. and dies with the suns
light such indeed is the life of
But it is the life of his BODY the life of his spirit
that passes away.
And those very things that discourage hm-the vapor
the clouds and the shadowthey not the solid earth and
rocks, are the REAL things.
What is the shadow behind you? It is the sign that
the suns beautiful light shining upon your face That
shadow proves that you in the light And your
shadow the ground tells the power of the sum- your
shadowy life this earth tells the power of God of the
wisdom that rules the universe, that has its purpose in
putting you here as has its purpose in putting those
clouds in the sky, giving sunlight power draw
from the and make it clouds above
What is the cloud that vapor floating above you carry
ing with it the beautiful colors of sunlight the fuitfulness
of the fields the hope of harvest? It is like your lfe
because contains in that which this earth needs
the promise Of better days coming.
A child could pass its hand unmpeded through the
hicket clouds ever piled in the sky But the laundering
power Of Niagara all made of the vapor that makes those
clouds
It is cloud at first, and does its work as cloud
shetering the earth, falling in ferzng rain and then
comes down torrent supplying power to the factory
IRON the fall of Niagara
That which at first feecy cloud is today the horse
power moving machinery and lighting cities.
The Bible condensation of ancient thought and wisdom
noby written record of inspired minds has, if well read
no discOuraging word That you passing shadow
tells you. You told also
"He maketh the winds His messengers the momentary
lire His minister"
Nothing more solid that what seems least solid The
wind that blows upon your face you look the moving