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Seen and Unseen

You perhaps noticed in the chapter which
I read, the verse which contains an expression
like this: "That the things which are seen are
temporal, but the things which are unseen are
eternal." Whatever the correct interpretation
may be, it seems to me that the hidden things
stand for character, and the temporal things
are those which stand for reputation. I think
the more we think of the matter, of the highest

and best things in life, the more readily we will
conclude that, after all, it is the hidden things
which are most important. It is the hidden
things that stand for the highest things in the
world. The more important things are those
which are hidden; the least important are those
which can be seen.

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