Our Spiritual Skies (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Our Spiritual Skies<br><br>We must keep the balance between physical experiment and spiritual experience. We must not become so fascinated with "scientific facts" as to lose the working strength of a spiritual faith. The soul is still the star of greatest magnitude in life's sky. This star must keep burning or our spiritual skies will grow dim and dark. Our night will fall and never lift if we lose sight of Him who is "the dayspring from on high."<br><br>On a day in autumn I saw a prairie eagle mortally hurt by a rifle shot. His eye still gleamed like a circle of light. Then he slowly turned his head and gave one more searching and longing look at the sky. He had often swept those starry spaces with his wonderful wings. The beautiful sky was the high home of his heart. It was the eagle's domain. A thousand times he had exploited there his splendid strength. In those far-away heights he had played with the lightnings and raced with the winds. And now, so far away from home, the eagle lay dying, done to the death, because for once he forgot and flew too low. The soul is that eagle. this is not its home. It must not lose the skyward look.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.