hold for his own all the days of his life, and fewer still are those he
may grasp with pleasure when the hands are falling helpless by his
side. But many are the riches he may have to hold forever in the
things of the unseen. Many a man walks through the fields penniless
and yet richer far than their owner; to him the birds sing, for him the
flowers bloom, to his eyes there are beauties in the blue beyond all
words, and all the loveliness of the fair land lifts his heart within
him. The other man who holds the title deeds sees nothing beside them.
Possession is wholly a matter of appreciation. The earth is the Lord's
and He gives it to those who have eyes to see.

It is the eye to see the unseen that gives wealth to the seen. Values
depend on vision. Appreciation does not prevent possession; it makes
the possession actual. And the vision of the realities behind things
keeps a man from the sense of destitution when all things are taken
from him. He cannot be destitute. He may lose all his fellows, but he
cannot be friendless; the Father of Spirits cannot lose him, nor can he
be cut off from fellowship with those who die no more.

The seeing eye is the stimulus to the worth while endeavour. The
inventors who have enriched the world endured derision seeing the
things invisible to others. The truth is that it is the unspiritual
world that makes the least progress in things material. The men of
faith and vision are back of all advance. They have endurance,
patience, and strength. The sense of another world where motives are
rightly measured, the sense of a great cloud of worthy witnesses to
other eyes invisible, the sense of reward in the very service itself,
rewards intangible yet most real, the joy of sacrifice and service;
these all enable one to push on, to toil, to endure. Then, long
afterwards, the dull, weary world sees and understands.