They  say  the  way  to  hell  is  paved  with  good  intentions.  Well,  here  is
one  of  the  good  intentions,  then,  that  pave  the  way  to  heaven.  He  did
see  the  promised  land,  after  all,  through  the  eyes  of  the  man  he  had
gotten  from  the  Lord;  and  there  was  a  strain  of  the  sturdy  striving
which  had  paid  the  price  of  leaving  the  old  place,  in  him  who  would
never  stop  until  he  came  to  the  new.  So  his  feet  also  are  beautiful  upon
the  mountains,  though  he  never  saw  them.  I  said  he  started  on  a  jour-
ney, and  it  ended  in  a  jaunt;  but  this  must  not  blind  us  to  what  that
jaunt  must  have  cost  him — the  great  sorrow  of  parting — the  heart-ache
of  the  man  who  seems  to  have  stopped  for  the  bone-ache.  He  did  not  do
all  he  set  out  to  do,  let  us  allow  this;  but  he  did  more  than  any  other
man  of  his  clan  in  Edessa;  and  dying  in  Haran,  he  was  not  only  one
day^s  march  on  the  road  to  this  larger  and  finer  life,  but  he  had  made  it
80  much  easier  for  the  young  men  to  go  riglit  on  to  the  end.
